Distributive Property 3
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Lesson Description:
More involved examples using the distributive property.
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Questions answered by this video:
- What is the distributive property of multiplication over subtraction?
- What happens if you are distributing a negative sign into parentheses?
- How can you use the distributive property to multiply, expand, and simplify polynomial expressions?
- How can you simplify 5(3x - 8) - 2(x - 4) - (x + 7) using the distributive property?
- How can you simplify 2(3x - 8) - 4(4x - 9) - 3(2x + 6) - 5x using the distributive property?
- How can you simplify 1/2(7x - 9) - 5/2(x - 3) - 6 using the distributive property?
- How do you combine like terms to simplify a polynomial?
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Staff Review
This lesson shows 3 different polynomial expressions that are simplified using the distributive property. The problems feature subtraction, negative numbers being distributed through parentheses, a negative sign being distributed through parentheses, fractions, and combining like terms. This is a high quality polynomial expression tutorial.
