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This video will give you the ins and outs of the distributive property. Can someone distribute some property to us?

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00:04

Distributive Property, a la Shmoop.

00:07

King Moneylust values gold and jewels above all else. [King Moneylust sat on a throne]

00:11

One day, the king’s first steward brought him 5 gold bars and 1 precious diamond. [Steward drops 5 gold bars and a diamond for the King]

00:16

His second steward entered the court, also bringing the king 5 gold bars and 1 precious diamond.

00:23

Moneylust’s third steward, never one to be a trailblazer, followed suit. [Third steward drops gold bars and diamond on the floor]

00:28

In he came with 5 gold bars and 1 precious diamond.

00:31

Because Moneylust is a busy guy and hardly has time to sit around and count all of his riches…[The King reading a piece of paper]

00:37

…is there a shortcut he can use to determine how many he has of each item?

00:41

You betcha.

00:43

Because we are dealing with three occurrences of the same data, we can write it this way: [3 lots of gold bars and diamonds]

00:48

Three times 5g plus d… where “g” stands for a gold bars, the 5 that multiplies the

00:54

“g” stands for the amount of gold total and the “d” stands for a diamond.

01:00

The stuff in parentheses represents what each steward presented to the king… [Stewards holding their gold bars and diamond]

01:04

5 gold bars and a diamond…

01:06

…and because there were three of them, we can multiply the whole thing by “3.”

01:11

To simplify this expression, we can use distributive property. [maths formula scribbled under distributive property]

01:14

In other words, whatever is on the outside of the parentheses, we can multiply by each

01:20

term on the inside of the parentheses. Three times 5g equals 15g…

01:27

…and three times 1d equals 3d. [King wearing 3D glasses]

01:32

So we can rewrite the expression as “15g plus 3d.”

01:37

Moneylust was a tad displeased when he realized that his stewards had only brought him 15 [The King looking unhappy with 15 gold bars and 3 diamonds]

01:42

gold bars and 3 precious diamonds.

01:45

He punished them by forcing them to solve this problem. [Stewards solving maths problem as King watches]

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