You only distribute the number outside the parentheses (multiply by each number inside the parentheses to get 2 new numbers to subtract) only if one number inside the parentheses have a variable
for example:
4(6x-2)
24x-8
4 times 6x is 24
4 times -2 is -8
but if it something like this:
4(6-2)
You don't distribute the 4 to get 24-8, because there is no variable or 'x'
you have to use order of operations to solve
4(4)
16
Hope this is what you meant
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First, the word is there, not their. And, apart from you, who says there is no such law? because a*(b - c) = a*b - a*c and if that isn't the distributive property of multiplication over subtraction I don't know what is!
It means nothing, really. The distributive property is a property of multiplication over addition or subtraction. It has little, if anything, to do with integers.
The DISTRIBUTIVE (not distributed) property is a property of multiplication over addition (OR subtraction). In its simplest form, if x, y and z are three numbers then, according to the distributive property of multiplication over addition, x*(y + z) = x*y + x*z
The distributive property is a property that relates to two binary operations and operates over a set.According to the distributive property of multiplication over division, if a, b and c are three elements of a set S, thena*(b + c) = a*b+a*cMultiplication is also distributive over subtraction.
2k + 10 is an expression. The distributive property is a property of one binary operation (typically multiplication, or right-division) over another (addition or subtraction) for elements of a set (numbers); not a property of expressions.