Question

Use the distributive property to express 30 + 75

Answer 1

Distributive property is when we take a common factor of the terms in the sum and writing the sum as a product-sum instead

30 + 75 ⇒ The greatest common factor of 30 and 75 is 5

we know that 30 = 5 × 6 and 75 = 5 × 25

So, by taking the common factor '5' out, we can write 30 + 75 as 5(6 + 25)