To represent the area of an entire rectangle (composed of smaller rectangles) using the distributive property, we want to express the area in a way that allows us to add the areas of the individual rectangles together.
In this case, if we have one rectangle that measures 9 units in height and combines two widths of 6 and 11, the total width is \(6 + 11\). Hence the expression for the area would be:
\[
9 \cdot (6 + 11)
\]
This expression represents the height multiplied by the total width. If we want to break it down using the distributive property, we can also express it as:
\[
(9 \cdot 6) + (9 \cdot 11)
\]
This corresponds to finding the area of two smaller rectangles and adding them together.
So, both \(11(6 + 9)\) and \((9 \cdot 6) + (9 \cdot 11)\) show the way to express the area using the distributive property, but the closest one to how the distributive property applies in this context is:
(9⋅6)+(9⋅11)
(open paren 9 times 6 close paren plus open paren 9 times 11 close paren).