Identify which distributive property problem below would help you solve the following scenario: Your English class has 23 students. You would like to treat the class to cookies. You would like each person to have 3 cookies. Which expression would be a quick way to figure out how many cookies you would need to bake?

3(23 + 3)

3(20 − 3)

3(23 − 3)

3(20 + 3)

Question

Identify which distributive property problem below would help you solve the following scenario: Your English class has 23 students. You would like to treat the class to cookies. You would like each person to have 3 cookies. Which expression would be a quick way to figure out how many cookies you would need to bake?

3(23 + 3)

3(20 − 3)

3(23 − 3)

3(20 + 3)

anonymous · Answer

The end result of your question will be 23 students each with 3 cookies or 23*3 = 69

So any option that concludes to anything besides 23*3 will be wrong

Therefore 3(20+3) or 3(23) will be correct

anonymous · Answer

3(20 + 3)