Where is it written you must use the distributive property? When you can simply add 3 and 9?
You don’t have to use it if you are willing to accept the wrong answer.
You have to distribute the 2 to the 9 and the 3. Do that and the result is 24.
48 ÷ 24= 2
To get the result you want, the problem would have to be expressed as:
48 ÷ 2 x (9+3)= 288, but that is not the problem.