Distributive Property and the Area of Rectangles

The video tutorial explains how to calculate the area of a rectangle with a length of 15 inches and a width of 6 inches. It demonstrates breaking the rectangle into two smaller rectangles with lengths of 8 and 7 inches, respectively, to simplify the calculation using a multiplication table. The tutorial also introduces the distributive property of multiplication to find the total area. By adding the areas of the smaller rectangles, the total area of the original rectangle is determined to be 90 square inches.

How do you calculate the total area of the original rectangle using the areas of the smaller rectangles?

Explain how the distributive property of multiplication is applied in calculating the area of the rectangle.