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Old 10-07-2010, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Sarah8914 View Post
I'm a mathed major and I'm a little confused (but it's been years...) to me, distributive would be like this:

27 (30+5) because then you "distribute" the 27 to the 30 and to the 5... but if that's what another 4th grade teacher said, then I'd go with that!
i think that's essentially the same thing, isn't it?
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