Name: _____________________

Practicing Distributing

Instructions: Use the distributive property to create equivalent expression with parentheses removed.

1.

a) 5(p + 5)

b) 4(2x + 3)

c) 2(x+7) + 2

2. Each of the following represents a coding process. Describe the steps for decoding or construct an arrow diagram to represent the decoding process.

a) c = 4p + 1

b) c = 2(p + 3)

c) c = 3p – 4

d) c = 5(p + 2) - 3