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22 February, 00:12

For your birthday you go to the movies with three friends. You buy 4 boxes of popcorn, one for you and one for each of your friends. The tickets cost $5.75 each and the popcorn costs $4.25 per box. The total cost can be expressed by (4 • 5.75) + (4 • 4.25). Rewrite this expression using the distributive property and then solve. Explain why using the distributive property makes finding the total easier. Show your work.

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  1. 22 February, 00:25
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    (4 • 5.75) + (4 • 4.25) = 4 (5.75 + 4.25)

    4 (5.75 + 4.25) = (4 • 5.75) + (4 • 4.25) = 23 + 17 = 40

    Why using the distributive property makes finding the total easier?

    Using the distributive property allows us to solve two simpler multiplication problems.
  2. 22 February, 00:30
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    Rewritten: 4 (5.75 + 4.25)

    solved: 4 (10) = 40

    explanation: it was easier this way because we did not have to work with decimals
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