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Answer:
distributive property
Step-by-step explanation:
The distributive property of multiplication over addition tells you ...
a(b +c) = ab +ac
This works both ways, allowing you to eliminate or add parentheses as may be needed.
The common factor of ...
11x +5xy
is x. It may be factored out according to the distributive property to give ...
x(11 +5y)
