Question

Use the distributive property to express 48+72

Answer 1

1.) 48 + 72

2.) GCF = 8

3.) 8 × 6 = 48

8 × 9 = 72

4.) 8 (6 + 9)

Answer 2

The distributive property says that:

A*(B + C) = A*B + A*C

in this case we have the sum:

48 + 72

First, we can see that both numbers are even numbers, so we can write this addition as:

2*24 + 2*36 = 2*(24 + 36)

where we used the distributive property in the inverse way as usual.

2*(24 +36) = 2*60 = 120