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https://news.yahoo.com/texas-hospital-system-confirms-first-210414035.htmlThe Oscar-winner starred in a PSA for The Creative Coalition and the Ribbon Task Force titled Be There. This Is Your Shot. The spot essentially urges Americans to take care of one another and do their part in the fight against the coronavirus by getting vaccinated.
Im not a doctor, but I trust science. And Im told that, for some reason, people trust me, Freeman explained in the PSA. So here I am to say I trust science and I got the vaccine. If you trust me, youll get the vaccine. In math, its called the distributive property. In people, its called taking care of one another. Get the vaccine. Help make our world a safe place for us to enjoy ourselves again. Please.
I don't understand what he meant about the distributive property. Can someone math-savvy explain it to me, who is not so math savvy ? Thanks.
His video:
Ned Low
(70 posts)... if a=b and b=c, then a=c. If you trust Morgan Freeman and Morgan Freeman trusts science, then you'll trust science.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)rampartc
(5,407 posts)AX(B+C) = AXB+AXC
if (as tends to happen) 3+4=7 then 2X(3+4) =14 and 2X3 + 2X4 also = 14
i suppose mr freeman is using distributive property as a figure of speech.
rateyes
(17,438 posts)is when you are presented with multiplying a quantity that is being either added or subtracted first. 3(2+3)=3(5)=15. However, rather than adding first, you can distribute the 3 across the parentheses by multiplying each term separately and adding them together. 3(2+3)= 3(2)+3(3) = 6+9=15. This property is helpful in algebra when multiplying by variables. I teach my students to use it when doing mental math: 12(13)=12(10+3)=120+36=156.
Having said all of that, I have no clue as to why Morgan Freeman used it in the ad. Lol.
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)I'll go with the suggestion that he meant "transitive property," as suggested upthread. I can't see any way the distributive property (also explained upthread) could apply, and I'm fairly good at figuring out analogies.
-- Mal