jsuarezprincess15 jsuarezprincess15
  • 08-09-2018
  • Mathematics
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Tasha belives that she can rewrite the diffrence 120- 36 as a product of the GCF of the two numbers and another diffrence.Is she correct? Explain your awnser.

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sqdancefan
sqdancefan sqdancefan
  • 08-09-2018

Tasha is correct. This is what the distributive property is all about.

120 -36 = 12·10 -12·3 = 12·(10 -3)

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alexandervita778
alexandervita778 alexandervita778
  • 09-09-2018

tasha is correct because

We can write the GCF for each number as

120=2x2x2x3x5

36=2x2x3x3

GCF= 2x2x3=12


we then can write out 120-36  is (12 x 10) - (12 x 3) - 12(10-3)

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