Well, honey, the distributive property has been around longer than you and me combined. But if you want a name to credit, how about we give a shoutout to good ol' Al-Khwarizmi, the Persian mathematician who popularized it back in the 9th century. So, there you have it - the distributive property was probably invented over a cup of tea and some serious brainpower centuries ago.
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The distributive property is a characteristic that two mathematical operators may have. Numbers do not have a distributive property.
Numbers do not have a distributive property. The distributive property is an attribute of one arithmetical operation over another. The main example is the distributive property of multiplication over addition.
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Individual numbers do not have the distributive property - mathematical operations do.