The distributive property shows that multiplying a sum is the same as multiplying each addend separately, demonstrated with 2 × 8 broken into 2 × (2 + 6).
Visual explanation of the distributive property using the example 2 × 8 = 2 × (2 + 6) = (2 × 2) + (2 × 6), illustrated with colored dots.
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