Which of the following properties is 5(3 + 2) = 15 + 10 an example of?associative propertycommutative propertymultiplicative identitydistributive property
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It's the distributive property. It takes the equation, 15+10 and finds the greatest common factor of 5. it divides both numbers by 5 and puts the 5 outside of the parentheses.