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Which property best justifiies why the two expressions below are equivalent? 3(m+5)=3m+15

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The answer is the distributive property because it states that if you have a number multiplied by a quantity, you can just multiply that number by each of the terms in the quantity. For example, a(x+y)=ax+ay.

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