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Give an algebraic example of the distributive property

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A very simple example is:


x(a+b) = (x)(a) + (x)(b) \\~\\~~~~~~~~~~~=xa+xb

What you need to is just distribute x into the parenthesis, so once x times the first term (a) and once x times the second term (b)





I hope you got the idea



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