This example shows that if you went to MacDonald’s and bought 3 combos, and each combo came with 2 happy meals and a drink, you would end up with a total of 6 happy meals and 3 drinks!
Here is another chart showing some more examples of the distributive property at work…
In this chart we have examples of the “break-apart” method. This is where you take a big number and break it into smaller, more compatible numbers to solve the problem.