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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Distributive Property

What is the distributive property? Why do we need it when we already have an order of operations for simplifying expressions? When can't we use it?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohw6whHKuyY

Posted by Heidi at 12:06 AM
Labels: distributive property, properties

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