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Plz To "distribute" means ____________

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Answer:

make use of the distributive property of multiplication over addition

Explanation:

In the context of the distributive property, "distribute" means to apply the factor outside a parenthetical expression to each of the terms inside the parenthetical expression.

For the expression ...

k(b +c)

when we "distribute" k, we rewrite the expression as ...

kb +kc

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