When do you use order of operations and when do you use the distributive property?

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Dec 21, 2014

REMEMBER IT THIS WAY BODMAS(Brackets off,division,multiplication,addition and subtraction)

The distributive law is used in situations like this

#a(b-c)=ab-ac#

(This is the distributive law of multiplication over subtraction)

#a(b+c)=ab+ac#

(This is the distributive law of multiplication over addition).

let me cite some eg.

#x^2(2y^3 - 98) =x^2 2y^3 - 98x^2#

#3x^2(2y^3 +1) =6x^2 2y^3 +3x^2#

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