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Bro directly after what you underlined it says “if you want to remove the brackets” lol. Selective reading much? “If” means optional. You are free to solve what’s inside the brackets first, before multiplying it with what’s outside.

Also, the link I posted is literally titled “distributive law”, not property. You realize a law can have conditions, right?

Quick quiz for you: what’s the result of 2(3+5)² ?

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SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Bro directly after what you underlined it says “if you want to remove the brackets”

Yep, that’s right, and removing brackets is the first step in order of operations 😂

Selective reading much?

By you apparently.

“If” means optional

So… you’re telling me that the “B” step in BEDMAS, and the “P” step in PEMDAS, is optional? I don’t have to remove Brackets?? 😂 Better go back to school dude

You are free to solve what’s inside the brackets first, before multiplying it with what’s outside

Yep, but inside the brackets, as per the text you can see in the screenshot 😂

5(8-5)=(5x8-5x5)=(40-25)=15

5(8-5)=5(3)=(5x3)=15 <== Multiplication inside the Brackets, as per The Distributive Law

same answer both ways 😂

the link I posted is literally titled “distributive law”, not property

But has a multiply sign in it, thus proving it is the Property that they are talking about - The Distributive Property of Multiplication over Addition to call it by it’s full name

You realize a law can have conditions, right?

You realise it literally must be obeyed, right? The condition that The Distributive Law has, is “A number or letter next to a Bracket”, direct quote from the textbook, hence a(b+c)=(ab+ac), and not ax(b+c) since the a is not next to the bracket in that case

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- moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ok bro so answer my question what’s the result of the expression I wrote above?
  
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  - SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Ok bro so answer my question
    
    Deflection is the word you’re looking for
    
    what’s the result of the expression I wrote above?
    
    So… you’re telling me you don’t know what comes first out of Brackets and Exponents in order of operations? That’s your deflection strategy??
    
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    moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Exponents come after brackets, so I’m curious to see how you solve that with your logic lol. It has an obvious correct solution, which is 50, but you need to distribute in the brackets step, which comes before exponents, so let’s see what you do with it lmao.
    
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