Question

What is the distributive property?

Answer 1

Answer:

The first option: A.) For any numbers a, b, and c, a(b + c) = ab + ac.

Step-by-step explanation:

So anytime that you have a number or letter in front of a set of parenthesis that has numbers within (such as the example problem of: a(b + c)), you need to take the number outside of the parenthesis (a) in this situation) and multiply it to all of the numbers inside the parenthesis, like this:

a(b + c).

Multiply a into b, then multiply a into c, so that the equation looks like this:

ab + ac.

I hope that this helps.