To answer this question, we need to remember the Associative Property of Multiplication:
[tex]a\cdot(b\cdot c)=(a\cdot b)\cdot c[/tex]
If we have that:
[tex]6\cdot(2\cdot b)[/tex]
Then
[tex]6\cdot(2\cdot b)=(6\cdot2)\cdot b=12\cdot b=12b[/tex]
Therefore, we can say that:
First Part:
[tex]6(2b)=(6\cdot2)b[/tex]
Second Part:
[tex]6(2b)=12b[/tex]
