Question

Identify which distributive property problem below would help you solve the following scenario: Your Math class has 32 students. You would like to treat the class to cookies. You would like each person to have 5 cookies. Which expression would be a quick way to figure out how many cookies you would need to bake? IS IT.

A.) 5(32 + 2)

B.) 5(30 + 2)

C.) 5(32 − 2)

D.) 5(30 − 2)

Answer 1

Hint:

5(32) = 5(30 + 2)

Answer 2

b?

Answer 3

Do you really need me to explicitly tell you?

Answer 4

There's 32 cookies, 5 per person which means you need 5 x 32 cookies. The only expression equivalent to 5(32) is 5(30 + 2) which is obviously choice B.

Answer 5

ty.