D ISTRIBUTIVE P ROPERTY Station Notes and Practice

D ISTRIBUTIVE P ROPERTY Distribute: to give out UPS distributes packages to customers A dealer distributes cards to all the players in a game In math, you are “giving out” one value to a group of values

E SSENTIAL Q UESTION What does it mean if two expressions are equivalent? (Use the Distributive Property in your explanation.)

V OCABULARY Expression A set of numbers and/or variable terms Variable A letter that represents an unknown value Coefficient A number attached to a variable by multiplication Constant A value that doesn’t change (no variable)

N OTES : D ISTRIBUTIVE P ROPERTY To distribute: Multiply a term to all parts of a group term group multiply

E XAMPLE : 3(y + 4) 3y+12

P RACTICE :

E SSENTIAL Q UESTION What does it mean if two expressions are equivalent? (Use the Distributive Property in your explanation.)