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Distributivity in Math

Using the distributive property to simplify arithmetic operations.

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Jan 30, 2026

How can the same decomposition method be applied to calculate 487 × 60 quickly in the head?

quickly in the head is simplest when the multiplication is decomposed into parts: either split 487 into 400 + 80 + 7 and multiply each by 60, or multiply 487 by 6 and then by 10 — both approaches rely...

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