Question

Distributive property to rewrite 2(3x+1)

Answer 1

To apply distributive property, first we need to identify the terms inside the parentheses. The terms are separated by a "+" or a "-".

In this case, the parentheses (3x + 1) has the terms:

"3x" plus "1"

Now to apply distributive property, we multiply each term and then add them, as in the parentheses:

`\begin{gathered} 2(3x+1)\begin{cases}3x \\ 1\end{cases} \\ 2\cdot3x=6x \\ 2\cdot1=2 \\ 2(3x+1)=6x+2 \end{gathered}`

The expression with the distributive property applied is 6x + 2