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Are the expressions 3(4x+8) and 12x + 24 equivalent?

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yes, use the distributive property
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Yes they are equivalent because if you do distrubitive property, first you do 3*4x=12x and 3*8=24. So you bring done the addition sign which is 12x + 24.
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