document.write( "Question 1061656: Use the distributive property to rewrite each algebraic expression 8 (x+7) \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "How to remove the parentheses by using\r\n" );
document.write( "the distributive property.  We start\r\n" );
document.write( "with this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "8(x+7)\r\n" );
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document.write( "We put the 8 on the left by the x, the first\r\n" );
document.write( "thing inside the parentheses to indicate\r\n" );
document.write( "that the 8 is multiplied by the x\r\n" );
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document.write( "8x\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we put the + sign on to that and we have\r\n" );
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document.write( "8x+\r\n" );
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document.write( "Next we would put the 8 beside the 7, and get\r\n" );
document.write( "87, but that would be mistaken for eighty-seven,\r\n" );
document.write( "so we must put a ∙ between the 8 and the 7, like \r\n" );
document.write( "this: 8∙7, to keep it from looking like \r\n" );
document.write( "eighty-seven.  We write that next:\r\n" );
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document.write( "8x+8∙7\r\n" );
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document.write( "Finally we have to leave 8x as it is, because\r\n" );
document.write( "x is an unknown number.  But we can multiply\r\n" );
document.write( "8 times 7 and replace 8∙7 by 56.\r\n" );
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document.write( "8x+56\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the final answer, with no parentheses.\r\n" );
document.write( "The parentheses were removed by multiplying the\r\n" );
document.write( "8 on the far left of the parentheses by each of\r\n" );
document.write( "the added terms inside the parentheses, eliminating\r\n" );
document.write( "the parentheses.\r\n" );
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