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Answer:
D. If a sum of two numbers is multiplied by a factor, you can multiply each number by that factor and then add the products.
Step-by-step explanation:
The point of the distributive property is that it allows multiplication to be distributed over addition. That is, ...
a(b +c) = ab +ac
The product of a factor and a sum is the same as the sum of the products of that factor with each of the elements of the sum. This is expressed in statement D.
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Statement A refers to the commutative property of multiplication.
Statement B is a restatement of the multiplication rule in the "order of operations."
Statement C refers to the associative property of multiplication.
Statement D is a restatement of the distributive property.
