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What property is shown below? 4 × (4 - 3) = (4 × 4) - (4 × 3)

 Sep 10, 2014

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@Cphill, yeah that one! totally knew that! 

 Sep 10, 2014
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Not sure if there's a specific name for it, but it is simply multiplication out of the brackets.

It is a showcase of the rule that

a(b-c) = ab-ac

Not sure what else I can say about it 

 Sep 10, 2014
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It's the distributive property of multiplication over subtraction.......

 

 Sep 10, 2014
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@Cphill, yeah that one! totally knew that! 

reinout-g Sep 10, 2014
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I sospected that you did......it probably just slipped your mind  .....this happens to me a LOT these days.......LOL!!!!!

 

 Sep 10, 2014

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