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Is it possible to use the distributive property to rewrite 85 + 99 as a product of a whole number greater than 1 and a sum of two while numbers ? explain

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No it is not possible because you must be able to multiply a single term and two or more terms inside a set of parentheses. these numbers has no common factors except one:
85: 1, 5, 17, and 85
99: 1, 3, 9, 11, 33, and 99, thus, it cannot be written as a product of a whole number greater than one.
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