As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 46th-largest in the United States with a population of 410,939. Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital.
The verb expand means to make something bigger or wider. It might refer to something concrete, as when you blow into a balloon and make it expand, or something more abstract, as when you study to expand your mind. Expand is a combination of the Latin words ex-, meaning out, and pandere, to spread.. The idea of spreading out was always there, though the current idea of something actually becoming larger was first recorded in the mid-17th century.
Algebra-Expanding. Expanding means removing the () ... but we have to do it the right way! () are called parentheses or  brackets . Whatever is inside the () needs to be treated as a package. So when multiplying: multiply by everything inside the package.n Algebra putting two things next to each other usually means to multiply. So 3(a+b) means to multiply 3 by (a+b). Here is an examle of expanding, using variables a, b and c instead of numbers: And here is another example involving some numbers.