Which means "the sum of w and 3.4 is greater than or equal to 10.5"?

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ja1 · Answer

Ok do you know what "the sum of" would mean?

anonymous · Answer

I want to say that it is adding something

anonymous · Answer

I want to say that it is this 3.4 + w ≥ 10.5

ja1 · Answer

You thought pretty well ;)

anonymous · Answer

hahaha thanks

ja1 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

The distributive property of multiplication justifies which of the following statements?
4(y – z) = 4(y) + 4(-z)
	
  	
3(s) + 3(t) = 9(st)
	
  	
8 + (-8) = 0
		
(a + b) + c = (c + a) + b

anonymous · Answer

thanks I appreciate it

ja1 · Answer

Well let's try to eliminate the ones that are simply bogus, can you pick out the ones that are not even distributing?

anonymous · Answer

so I am guessing that the last one justifies the distributive property

ja1 · Answer

And no problem I'm here to help :)

anonymous · Answer

second and third one

ja1 · Answer

Actually no, the last one justifies a property, just not distributive, it represents the transitive property, those parenthesis are tricky huh?

Remember that to distribute basically you do this: (i used bogus variables as placeholders)

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