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Distributive Property
To Multiplying a number is the same as multiplying its addends by the number,
then adding the products.
To the multiply a sum by a number, multiply each addend of the sum by the
number outside the parentheses.
Example 3( 5 + 4 )=(3 x 5 )+(3 x 4 ) 4( 3 + 1 )=(4 x 3 )+(4 x 1 )