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What is distributive property?

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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. Take a look at the problem below. 2(3 + 6)
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Distributive property is when you have an equation or part of an equation in parentheses with a number or variable in front of the parentheses. For this, you would multiply said number or variable by everything that is inside the parentheses so you can get rid of parentheses.
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