I assume that you are either adding everything together, or multiplying everything. (Answers.com tends to eliminate several signs from the original question.)
Since you are only changing the order of two factors, that would be the commutative property.
To express ( 4(3 + 9) ) using the distributive property, you distribute the 4 to both terms inside the parentheses. This results in ( 4 \cdot 3 + 4 \cdot 9 ), which simplifies to ( 12 + 36 ). Thus, ( 4(3 + 9) = 12 + 36 ).
You can solve distributive property problems, by doing this: Let's say your problem is 27+12. You start by doing this: What factor goes into 27? Wait... what Greatest Common Factor belongs to 27? It's 9. So, what you do is this: 3(9+?) 3*? equals 12? 3*4= 12. So it's 4. So, 3(9+4) 9+4= 13 3*13= 39 27 +12 equals 39
Commutative Property of Addition
Commutative Property of Addition
12 ÷ 4/9 = 27
To express ( 4(3 + 9) ) using the distributive property, you distribute the 4 to both terms inside the parentheses. This results in ( 4 \cdot 3 + 4 \cdot 9 ), which simplifies to ( 12 + 36 ). Thus, ( 4(3 + 9) = 12 + 36 ).
In this case, the commutative property states that 4 * 9 = 9 * 4
You can solve distributive property problems, by doing this: Let's say your problem is 27+12. You start by doing this: What factor goes into 27? Wait... what Greatest Common Factor belongs to 27? It's 9. So, what you do is this: 3(9+?) 3*? equals 12? 3*4= 12. So it's 4. So, 3(9+4) 9+4= 13 3*13= 39 27 +12 equals 39
Commutative Property of Addition
(4 x 12) + (5 x 12) = 9 x 12 = 108
It is the associative property for the addition of numbers.
It is the commutative property of addition.
Commutative Property of Addition
The additive property.
9+4=4+9 OR 9x4=4x9
It is (9*12)/4 = 27
12 ÷ 4/9 = 27