Undoing the distributive property involves three steps: 1) Identifying the common factor of all terms, 2) Dividing each term by that common factor, and 3) Writing the common factor outside parentheses grouping the divided terms. For example, to undo 2x + 4 + 6, the common factor is 2, so the terms become x + 2 + 3 inside parentheses with a 2 outside, matching the original expression.

1. Undoing Distributive Property By: Anthony Seeley

2. What you are supposed to do You first have to see what number goes all the numbers. LIKE SO- 2x+4+6 The 2 goes into all them.

3. The Next Step After that you have to divide all the numbers by the number that you chose to go in all of them. LIKE SO- 2x/2+4/2+6/2 So It than equals x+2+3

4. The Next Step The next thing you do is put the parenthesis around the numbers you divided and put the number that you divided everything by on the out side of the parenthesis. LIKE SO- 2(x+2+3)

5. Just To Check If you want to check if you are right you can do distributive back into it. LIKE SO- 2*x+2*2+2*3= 2x+4+6