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Pani-rosa [81]
2 years ago
12

Why do we use the distributive property when subtracting expressions?

Mathematics
2 answers:
pochemuha2 years ago
3 0

Consider the example

(3x+5) - (x-10)

When we subtract off the (x-10), we are basically subtracting off x and also subtracting off -10. This is the same as adding on 10 because -(-10) = 10

So we would have these steps

(3x+5)-(x-10)

3x+5-x+10

2x+15

Often students forget to distribute the negative all the way through and would have 3x+5-x-10 as an incorrect step. You need to multiply that -1 through to each term, so that's why the distributive property is used.

Neko [114]2 years ago
3 0
distributive properties of addition and
subtraction can be used to rewrite
expressions for a variety of purposes. In
each case, you are distributing the outside
multiplier to each number in the
parentheses, so that multiplication occurs
with each number before addition or
subtraction occurs.
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