Concept explainers
To illustrated: the property given by the statement
Answer to Problem 1E
The statement illustrated the distributive property of multiplication over subtraction.
Explanation of Solution
Given Information
The given expression is
Calculation:
Left hand side equality is
Now,
Hence the expression obtained is
Now, Right hand side equality is
In which 3 is outside multiplier demonstrates that this is true. The expression on the right, which is simplified using the distributive property is shown to be equal to −15, which is the resulting value on left as well.
Hence this shows distributive property
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