Question

A football coach divides 42 players and 12 coaches into groups. Each group will have the same number of players and coaches. What is the greatest number of groups that can be formed.
Answer: 6 groups
Then it states use the greatest common factor 6 from the answer above to rewrite using the distributive property.
What numbers would I use to do the distributive property?
Would it be 6(42 + 12)?
6(7 + 2)

Since 6×7=42 and 6×2=12
Why would you not just ad 42 + 12=54
6(54)
42 times 6=252
12 times 6=72

252+72=324

54x6=324

Why would you not do it like I did above?

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