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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Distributive Property - College Level

Multiply the following:




Explanation:

The term distribute means to multiply an outer term which is usually outside a paranthesis by all the other tems that are within the paranthesis. We start this one step at a time as follows:




must be distributed into the equation. In order to distribute, multiply the outside term by every term inside the paranthesis. Therefore we end up with:




Remeber to add the exponents when you are multiplying the same varaibles as follows:





The final answer will be:






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