Question

How do you simplify `\frac{10x+8y-1}{2` using the distributive property?

Answer 1

`{10x+8y-1}/{2}`

by distributing `1/2` to each term in the numerator,

`={10x}/2+{8y}/2-1/2`

by simplifying a bit further,

`=5x+4y-1/2`

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