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Explain in your own words what the distributive law is. ​

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Answer: What is a Distributive Law?

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Distributive law, also called distributive property, in mathematics, the law relating the operations of multiplication and addition, stated symbolically as a(b + c) = ab + ac; that is, the monomial factor a is distributed, or separately applied, to each term of the binomial factor b + c, resulting in the product ab + ac. From this law it is easy to show that the result of first adding several numbers and then multiplying the sum by some number is the same as first multiplying each separately by the number and then adding the products.

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Multiplying a number by a group of numbers adding together is called distructive law

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