How do you use the distributive property to multiply $999*6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-02-15T17:19:13

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Split the 999 into 900+90+9 so we have: $6(900+90+9)$
This is the same as:

$6xx900 = 5400$
$6xxcolor(white)(9)90=color(white)(5)540$
$6xxcolor(white)(90)9=ul(color(white)(55)54) larr" Add"$
$" "5994$

How do you use the distributive property to multiply 999*6999*6?