rewrite the expression (1/4x + 3/4) using the distributive property

Question

i know how to use the distributive property in most cases, but there is not an outside number to distribute among the numbers in the parenthesis, so im not sure how to solve this problem. by the way, im not solving for X

Answer 1

Well, you probably know that:

    (1/4)(x + 3) = (1/4)x + 3/4         [by using the outside number]

 

Equality works in reverse, too.