Question

An expression is given: x(-1.8-6y) Use the distributive property to expand the expression.

Answer 1

Answer: x(-1.8-6y) = -1.8*x -6*y*x

Explanation:

The distributive property says that if we have:

A*(B + C) where A, B and C can be any numbers, we can expand the equation as:

A*(B + C) = A*B + A*C.

So, in this case, we have the equation:

x*(-1.8 - 6y)

so we can expand this as:

x*(-1.8 - 6y) = x*(-1.8) + x*(-6*y) = -1.8*x -6*y*x