Question

Which property justifies that 42 * 37 = 42 * 30 + 42 * 7?

A. distributive
B. commutative
C. associative
D. identity

Answer 1

can you provide a picture?

Answer 2

picture ???? for what case ?

so little help

42 time 37 = ? how can you rewrite the 37 closing these terms inside parentheses ?
after this just you need distribute parentheses and name the way what you ve did - select from these given choices

hope helped understandably

Answer 3

in the problem, they just broke 37 into 30 and 7. so if you rewrite it, it'd say 42*37= 42(30) + 42(7).
from here, you should be able to tell which property this is.