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What is the distributive property of 20 + 25+ 55

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Using the distributive property we can rewrite the expression as:

20 + 25 + 55 = 5*(4 + 5 + 11) = 5*20

How to use the distributive property?

The distributive property is defined as:

A*(B + C) = A*B + A*C

Here we have the expression:

20 + 25 + 55

We can see that all of these are multiples of 5, so we can write:

20 = 4*5

25 = 5*5

55 = 5*11

Then we can rewrite the expression as:

4*5 + 5*5 + 5*11

Now we can use the distributive property to rewrite this as:

4*5 + 5*5 + 5*11 = 5*(4 + 5 + 11) = 5*20

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