Rewriting Expressions

Question

How do you rewrite 8(1-x) without parentheses using distributive property?

Answer 1

I will answer this question IN GENERAL so that you can always distribute.

 

If you have a(b±c), the number a, outside the parentheses, goes inside & multiplies every term that was within the parentheses--and the parentheses are now gone:

 

So you always get ab ± ac.

 

In your particular case, 8(1-x) = 8 - 8x.