Answer:
The distributive property says that:
A*(B + C) = A*B + A*C
in this case we have the sum:
48 + 72
First, we can see that both numbers are even numbers, so we can write this addition as:
2*24 + 2*36 = 2*(24 + 36)
where we used the distributive property in the inverse way as usual.
2*(24 +36) = 2*60 = 120
