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Can you explain the distributive property to me please

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the distributive property is when you distribute a number to both parts of the problem

example is a(b+c) = ab+ac
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The distributive property is when you have parenthesis like this ( ) and when a number is outside the parenthesis 5(2×3) like this you multiply the outside numbers by both inside numbers
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