Inactive Tutor answered • 11/22/12
Actually for this problem you wouldn't even need the distributive property to solve. All you do is add up the 10+5 inside the parenthese and then multiply the result (15) but 8x which will give you an answer of 120x.
But let's say we have this type of question:
10(8x+5).
Here we'll need to distribute because the 8x and 5 can't be added. So what happens is the 10 outside of the parenthese needs to be multiplied in. The way that's done is you multiply every term inside the parenthese by the 10.
10*8x+10*5 = 80x+50.
Two more examples:
7(7y-6) = 7*7y-6*7 = 49y-42
12(3y+8x-6) = 12*3y+12*8x-6*12 = 36y+96x-72
I hope this helped!
Inactive Tutor
Thank you. My case is the opposite, language and literature are difficult. =]
11/24/12
Inactive Tutor
A much better explanation than mine. Sadly, math is not my forte. Language and literature is.
Have a good one!
11/24/12