Arturo O. answered 03/30/17
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You really meant to say that you are trying to APPLY the distributive property to 4 (b - s), or that you are trying to rewrite 4 (b - s) by applying the distributive property.
4 (b - s) = 4b - 4s
That is the distributive property applied in this problem.