The expression shown here is using the distributive property.
The distributive property simply states that multiplication distributed over addition. Multiplying the sum of two or more addends by a number will give the same result as multiplying each addend individually by the number and then adding the products together.
For the given situation,
The expression is 12a + 12b + 12c + 12d.
The formula for the distributive property is expressed as,
a × (b + c) = (a × b) + (a × c).
Michael writes the expression shown as
⇒ [tex]12a + 12b + 12c + 12d = 12(a + b + c + d)[/tex]
The above expression is of the form of the formula for the distributive property.
Hence we can conclude that the expression shown here is using the distributive property.
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