Question

I have to write if it is associative property, closure property, commutative property, additive inverse and so on in the following exercise. (x + a) (x + b) = (x + a)x + (x + a)b

Answer 1

We will have the following:

From the problem given we can see that the property in use is the distributive property:

(x + a)(x + b) = (x + a)x + (x + a)b