A student attempted to generate an equivalent expression using the distributive property, as shown below:

2 answers:

3 0

In the equation 2(x+5) = 2x +5
You need to use distributive property so your answer would be 2x + 10.
So the mistake that was made is...

B: 2 was not multiplied by 5

kvasek [131]3 years ago

3 0

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

because you first do x+5 first so then it will be 2 x 5x

You might be interested in

There are 10 marbles in a bag 1/5 are red and the others are blue. what is the ratio of red to blue?

Pachacha [2.7K]

Answer:

the ratio of red 2/10

easy I think it's not hard

there is tow red balls and 8 blue balls

3 0

3 years ago

Please help answer correctly !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will mark Brianliest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zubka84 [21]

Well.. the equation for the interior angles of a polygon is 180(n-2). So it could possibly be 180.

Hope I could help.

8 0

3 years ago

For a summer reading program, you are asked to read 3 books from a list of 8 book. how many different groups of 3 books can you

Molodets [167]

Answer-
You can read 2 groups of three books.

Step-by-step expression-
3 times 3 is 9. Since 9 is bigger than 8, you multiply 3 by 2. 3 times 2 is 6. Therefore, you can only read 2 groups of 3 books. Happy studying :))

8 0

3 years ago

Find the midpoint between (4,-1) and (3,2)

zepelin [54]

Midpoint has form of,

$M(\dfrac{x_1+x_2}{2},\dfrac{y_1+y_2}{2})$