Question

Which property is used in the first step to solve this equation?

Answer 1

distributive property

Explanation:

we know the distributive property states that the multiplication of a number (in this case, the number 4) by a sum (in this case is a subtraction: x-6) is equal to the sum of the multiplications of that number for each of the terms that belong to the sum:

we have: 4(x-6)

we apply the distributive property, so we have

4(x-6)=4*x-4*6

4(x-6)=4x-24