This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?
When this reporter, ahem, asked for a friendly reminder (wink-wink) about the math concept, Sykora explained the distributive property of multiplication. “For example, if you have 12 times 3, instead ...
As we cannot simplify what is within the bracket, we must instead use the distributive property of this expression. This means that we can rewrite the above ...
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