Fill in the blanks to make the statements true:

a (b + c) = ax ……….. × ax ……….. .

b,c

We have,

(Using left distributive law => The law relating the operations of multiplication and addition, stated symbolically, a(b+c)=ab+ac; that is, the monomial facto a is distributed, or separately applied, to each term of the binomial factor b+c, resulting in the product ab+ac. From this law it is easy to show that the result of first adding several numbers and then multiplying each separately by the number and then adding the products)