A few days ago
i cant believe i dont get the distributive property?
I want to understand how the distributive property works if i could just understand how it works I would be able to do it. I understnad that u multiply everything in the parenthesis but when do you get a minus sign in some problems that dont have a minus sign at all is what im trying to understand please help I just need a good explaination
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A few days ago
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I’m not sure when that is possible since a negative times a positive is negative, meaning that a negative is in the problem. Maybe you can give us an example to explain the answer process.
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A few days ago
Okay, in a problem such as:
4(4-4) = 16 – 16 = 0.
4 x -4 = -16 because only one of them has a negative sign, therefor it is negative. However, if it’s like:
-4(-4-4) = 16 + 16 = 32.
-4 x -4 = +16 because they are both negative and therefor cancel each other out.
So if the two negative signs are the same, they will cancel out each other out and become positive. If there’s only one negative number, the final product with be negative because it will carry from that one number.
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