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Addition Property of Equality

Postby iceking on Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:47 pm

Hey, I am having alot of trouble with the Addition Property of Equality. I really don't get it at all. Can Some one help?

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Postby stapel_eliz on Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:09 pm

Please reply with what your book means by this property. When you reply, please explain which part you're having trouble with.

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Postby iceking on Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:26 pm

stapel_eliz wrote:Please reply with what your book means by this property. When you reply, please explain which part you're having trouble with.

Thank you! :wink:


The definition is : "if a=b, then a+c=b+c"
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Postby stapel_eliz on Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:18 pm

The property says that, if you add the same thing to both sides of an equation, the equation is still true.
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Postby iceking on Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:20 pm

stapel_eliz wrote:The property says that, if you add the same thing to both sides of an equation, the equation is still true.


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