Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses . 2(x+7)

Question

Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses. 2(x+7)

Answer 1

Using distributive property, the term outside the parentheses should distributes across all the term inside the parentheses.

a(b+c)=a*b+a*c=ab+ac

2(x+7)= 2*x+2*7

2x+14 is the answer

Answer 2

2(x + 7)

 

The distributive property allows us to write this as

 

2x + 14

 

The two terms are mathematically equivalent.