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What property of real numbers is being used in the following (x+a)(x+b)=(x+a)x + (x+a)b ?

What property of real numbers is being used in the following (x+a)(x+b)=(x+a)x + (x+a)b ?
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What property of real numbers is being used in the following (x+a)(x+b)=(x+a)x + (x+a)b ?

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Distributive property. It shows that the first is being multiples the second.
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The distributive property. If we expand it, we get (x)(x+a)+b(x+a) by separating the variables in (x+b) 
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