Given the expression:
3(4x + 5)
It can be written in other several equivalent forms. For example, we can apply the distributive property and write:
3 × 4x + 3 × 5
If we operate, we can find another equivalent expression:
12x + 15
We can also swap the position of the terms:
15 + 12x
It's also possible to factor this last expression by 3:
3(5 + 4x)
All the expressions written above are equivalent to the original expression