Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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4. Factorizing Expressions
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Exercise 11 Page 111

Rewrite each term as a product of the coefficient of the variable term and some other factor.

1/10(k-7)

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We want to factor out the coefficient of the variable term — 110. Let's rewrite each term as a product of 110 and some other factor. To do so, note that 710 is 7 times 110 because 0.7 is 7 times 0.1. 1{\dfrac{1}{10}k &= {\color{#FD9000}{\dfrac{1}{10}}} \cdot k \\[0.5em] \dfrac{7}{10} &= {\color{#FD9000}{\dfrac{1}{10}}} \cdot 7 } Now we can use the Distributive Property to factor the expression. Let's go!
1/10k - 7/10
1/10k - 1/10 * 7
1/10(k-7)