Elementary Algebra Review Part 12
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Lesson Description:
Distributive property with polynomials, writing word phrases as algebraic expressions
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Questions answered by this video:
- How can you use the distributive property to write variable expressions without parentheses?
- How can you use the distributive property to simplify 4(x + 3) - (3x + 7)?
- How can you use the distributive property to simplify 5(x - 7) + 3(4x + 6)?
- How can you use the distributive property to simplify 3(x - 10) - 6x?
- How can you use the distributive property to simplify -4(2x - 5) - 5(3x - 7)?
- How do you write word phrases as algebraic expressions?
- What is five times the sum of four times a number and one as an algebraic expression?
- What is three less than twice the difference of a number and five as an algebraic expression?
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Staff Review
This video explains some concepts that can be quite confusing to Algebra students -- simplifying variable expressions by distributing, and writing word phrases as algebraic expressions. This is a great way to learn how to take a phrase and write it using numbers and variables.
