SOLUTION: How do I use the distributive property to multiply 4,276 by 10?

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Question 1123793: How do I use the distributive property to multiply 4,276 by 10?
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

recall:
equation , which also can be written as because the distributive property dictates that , which is outside the parenthetical, must be multiplied by both and . In other words, you are distributing the multiplication of between both and .
since you have to multiply by , in order to use distributive property you need to write as a sum of ,,, and :

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