Expanding Brackets Summary

Expanding Brackets

Summary

removing brackets from an expression is known as expanding the expression.

this usually occurs when a term outside a bracket is multiplied by each of the terms inside the bracket.

the outside term "distributes" itself over the inside terms.

Key Skills
  • expand an expression by multiplying the term outside the bracket by the contents of the bracket
  • simplify the result

Vocabulary

distributive property, expanding, brackets.