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Finding the roots of a quadratic equation needing simplification

This demonstrates how some quadratic equations need to be simplified and put in standard form before the quadratic expression can be factored so the factors can be set to zero and solved.

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Dividing a polynomial by a monomial: Univariate

Shows how to distribute a division like you do with multiplication when there is one term being distributed.

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Power of 10: Negative exponent

Negative powers of 10 means that they are very small fractions.

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Finding slopes of lines parallel and perpendicular to a line given in slope-intercept form

Describes how and why the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines can be found

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Solving a percent mixture problem using a linear equation

Shows how to organize the information given in words using a chart. This allows you to use the percent formula to show how the columns are combined to then find an equation to solve for the answer,

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Finding the original price given the sale price and percent discount

Explains the pitfalls that you need to know about to correctly do this problem. It is not as easy as it seems at first glance, so pay close attention to this video.

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Additive property of equality with integers

The beginnings of understanding how to solve equations by doing something to both sides, keeping it equal

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Distributive property: Whole number coefficients

Two examples of how to distribute

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Order of operations with integers

Three quick examples that show the order in which we simplify different opertions in arithmetic.

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Interpreting Slope-Intercept Form

Explains what slope and y-intercept mean in the context of a real-world example.

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Writing Algebraic Expressions for Applications

This video demonstrates how to translate a description of an actual problem into algebraic expression and simplify it

From  Tom Grant 934 plays 0