SOLUTION: hi my name is savvy and I'm having very bad trouble understanding the distributive property involving sevaral variables ex. n(n^2+n2+1) please help I'm working to graduate ea

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Question 924552: hi my name is savvy and I'm having very bad trouble understanding the distributive property involving sevaral variables
ex. n(n^2+n2+1)
please help I'm working to graduate early ad I can't get past this my email is Saveyj65@hotmail.com thank you
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, josmiceli, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source):
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The use of Distributive Property works the same way regardless of how many terms are in the factor containing the terms being summed. EVERY term in the summed expression is multiplied by the factor outside of the sum.

n*n^2+n*n^2+1

I assume you forgot the inverted-v symbol in your given expression.

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source):
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In the simplest form:

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If you prove it to yourself, it will
make more sense. Substitute numbers
for the letters:

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check:

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This is a good proof -there are no numbers
that fail this test- so you proved it

Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source):
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hi my name is savvy and I'm having very bad trouble understanding the distributive property involving sevaral variables
ex. n(n^2+n2+1)
please help I'm working to graduate early ad I can't get past this my email is Saveyj65@hotmail.com thank you

Distribution involves MULTIPLYING the expression on the IMMEDIATE outside of the expression in the parentheses
by the expression(s) in the parentheses. In this case, we get:
= , or
= , or
=
Put all 3 together to get: