Answer:
A) a • (b • c) = (a • b) • c
Step-by-step explanation:
The associative property of multiplication (or addition) shows that the order the numbers are multiplied it irrelevant, more specifically in the manners of parentheses.
So, the answer is A, which can also be seen in that substituting a as 5, b as 3, and c as 6 gives us the first example.
Answer:
x^7 + x^6 - 3x^4 + 4x^3 + 6x - 3.
Step-by-step explanation:
(x3 + 2x - 1) (x4 - x3 + 3)
= x^7 - x^6 + 3x^3 + 2x^6 - 2x^4 + 6x - x^4 + x^3 - 3
= x^7 + x^6 - 3x^4 + 4x^3 + 6x - 3.
In real life when I hear the word distribute, I know that it means that something is being handed out. In business, there is something called a distributor and they hand out stuff from the company that you buy it from. In mathematics, it means that you're giving another number something from another number.
