Some people use the distributive property to add 24 and 36, but you wouldn't use it to find the GCF which, by the way, is 12.
The GCF of 24 and 64 is 8. You use the distributive property to show another way to write the sum. 8(3 + 8)
6(5 + 11)
-4.2x - 6y + 3.6
It's not necessary. Since 12 is a factor of 72, it is automatically the GCF.
You multiply 5x5 then 9x1.
(40+200)+(5+80)
An example of how to use the distributive property: If you have 6x(5+4) you multiply 6x by 5 and get 30x. Then you multiply 6x by 4 and get 24x and then you would have 30x+24x which = 54x
To expand a power, use the distributive property and multiply the base by itself the number of times indicated by the exponent. For example, to expand (x+2)^3, multiply (x+2) by itself three times using the distributive property.
8*3.5 = 8*(3 + 0.5) which, applying the distributive property, = 8*3 + 8*0.5 = 24 + 4 = 28
You wouldn't. if it was something like 15(X-95) then you could use the distrubutive property but that is just a multiplication problem
distributive property for (11-3)=
no because distributive property is for multiple digit numbers.
The distributive property is not used for simplified multiplication. See http://www.algebrahelp.com/lessons/simplifying/distribution for information about how to use the distributive property to simplify other equations. 20 x 12 is already simplified, so the proper way to solve it is 12 x20 ----- 240 You could potentially factor and use the commutative property to find a simpler equation, ex. 20x12 -- break 20 into 10 and 2 10x2x12 -- multiply 2 by 12 10x24 -- multiply by 10 240
If you want to multiply the monomial by the polynomial, yes. In that case, you have to multiply the monomial by every term of the polynomial. For example: a (b + c + d) = ab + ac + ad More generally, when you multiply together two polynomials, you have to multiply each term in one polynomial by each term of the other polynomial; for example: (a + b)(c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd All this can be derived from the distributive property (just apply the distributive property repeatedly).
72.divided 4 in distributive property
You don't. The distributive property involves at least three numbers.