Question

What is distributive property ?

Answer 1

The distributive property allows multiplication of elements in parenthesis by a number outside the parenthesis. This is demonstrated as:
2(x + 5)
= 2x + 10

Answer 2

This is the definition of distributive property:
The Distributive Property is an algebra property which is used to multiply a single term and two or more terms inside a set of parentheses.
For example:
3 (2+4)
According to the distributive property, you first have to add these two numbers (2+4 = 6) and then multiply the result 6 by 3 = 18.