Question

Verify the property: a ×( b+c ) = ( a×b ) + ( a×c ) by taking a = 3/5 , b = -2 , c = 10/13

Answer 1

This is the distributive property

Explanation:

You use the distributive property to allocate a number outside of the parentheses to inside the parentheses.

For this example, they distributed a to both b and c making it a*b + a*c

This will result in the same answer:

3/5(-2 + 10/13) = 3/5*-2 + 3/5*10/13

3/5(-1.23..) = -6/5 + 30/65 (..= approx)

approximately- 0.74 = -0.74