What is distributive property?

This is the definition of distributive property:

The Distributive Property is an algebra property which is used to multiply a single term and two or more terms inside a set of parentheses.

For example:

3 (2+4)

According to the distributive property, you first have to add these two numbers (2+4 = 6) and then multiply the result 6 by 3 = 18.

The distributive property allows multiplication of elements in parenthesis by a number outside the parenthesis. This is demonstrated as:

2 (x + 5)

= 2x + 10