Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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4. Factorizing Expressions
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Exercise 31 Page 113

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

4(h-3/4)

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We want to factor out the coefficient of the variable term — 4. Let's rewrite each term as a product of 4 and some other factor. To do so, note that 3 is 34 times 4. 1{4h &= {\color{#FD9000}{4}} \cdot h \\[0.5em] 3 &= {\color{#FD9000}{4}} \cdot \dfrac{3}{4}} Now we can use the Distributive Property to factor the expression. Let's go!
4h-3
4* h - 3
4* h - 4 * 3/4
4(h-3/4)