Posted by Cassie on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:17am.
The distributive property of multiplication over addition helps us remove parentheses from expressions. For example,
5(x-2y) = 5*x - 5*2y
So for your example,
8(w-4) = -32 becomes
8w - 8*4 = -32
can you finish the problem?
I get w=-24
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