Question

The distributive property states:

Answer 1

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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.