Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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4. The Distributive Property
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Exercise 3 Page 222

Recall the Distributive Property.

12a+8b

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We want to simplify the given expression. To do it, we will use the Distributive Property. We will distribute 12 to the terms inside the parentheses.
12(a+2/3b)
12a+12(2/3b)
12a+(12* 2/3 )b
12a+( 12*2/3 )b
12a+( 24/3 )b
12a+8b
Since 12a and 8b are not like terms, the expression cannot be simplified further.