Question

Which property is used in the problem below?

2(x+4)=2x+8
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the associative property
the commutative property
the distributive property
the additive identity property

Answer 1

Explanation:

What you are doing is removing the brackets. That shows up as multiplying both terms inside the brackets by the factor outside the brackets (2).

This is a classic example of the distributive property.