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What are you distributing too? The 2 to the 9+3? if so that is wrong.Originally Posted by balloonoboy
Who remembers doing identities in trig? Remember when you would see something like sinθ(cosθ+tanθ)? And you had to distribute in order to solve, there was no other way. What's more was that these angles were mostly already known, so they weren't variables in the common sense.
Some of you short bus Team 288 dudes who had remedial math in high school didn't learn that.
So, even if you don't agree that 2 is THE answer, you have to accept it as a possible answer. Since a lot of those who come to the answer of 2 are programmed to see any such coefficient-parenthetical pairing as a flag to, what, DISTRIBUTE.
Morever, accept the fact that you were wrong and not only do you not know as much as you think, but that you put so much time on a poorly written math problem, you should ask god to prevent you from offing thyselves.