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How Do You Find the Additive Inverse of a Polynomial? Instructional VideoHow Do You Find the Additive Inverse of a Polynomial? Instructional Video
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How Do You Find the Additive Inverse of a Polynomial?

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Finding the additive inverse is not as complicated as you might think. The instructor demonstrates how to multiply each of the terms in the polynomial by -1 and explains how this works. But wait, there's a quicker way. What's that you ask, just watch this video and see.

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addition, additive inverse, inverses, distributive property, mathematical properties, multiplication, polynomials, simplifying, subtraction

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add, distributive property, multiply, opposites, subtract, polynomial, additive inverse, simplify, switch the sign of each term, math
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Instructional Videos
Media Length
4:18
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Flipped Classroom
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