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A contractor is calculating the total area of two rooms that have the same width 'w' but different lengths 'l1' and 'l2'. The total area is w(l1 + l2). The contractor calculates the area of each room separately as wl1 + wl2 and then adds them. The mathematical rule that justifies this is the ________ property.

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