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a property that states you can multiply numbers mentally by breaking apart one of the numbers and writing it as a sum or difference options:distributive property associative property commutative property

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Distributive property can be used to multiply numbers mentally by breaking apart one of the numbers and writing it as a sum or difference.

For example;


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