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Name: jennifer
Who is asking: Parent
Level of the question: Secondary
Question: I am trying to help my daughter . How do you name the property for 6(4w - 3z)=(6 x 4w)-(6 x 3z)
Jennifer,
This property is called the distributive property. It says that multiplication distributes over addition. In general the property is that for any numbers a, b and c
a
(b + c) = a
The operation you have between the b and c is subtraction but you can think of b - c as b + (-c).
Penny
