What's 4*72 rewritten using the distributive property?

4*72=288 is the first step you do. I then decided to do 72/4 which is 18 to get the inside number. 4 (18*1) is what I got finally because when you do distributive property 4*18=72 and 481=4. Once all of that is done, you come right back to the same problem you had at first.