Describe how you would use the distributive property to simplify {39*5}

Have you learnt about prime numbers yet? 5 is a prime number so you can't break it up into smaller numbers other than obviously 5*1. 39 is not a prime number. At first glance you should be able to tell that its a multiple of 3 right?

39=3*13

Now you have smaller numbers.

3*13*5=13*15.

I guess that's what the answer is.

You would use the distributive property by doing this

39 (5) = 195