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?

5(32 + 2)

5(30 + 2)

5(32 − 2)

5(30 − 2)

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? 

 5(32 + 2) 

 5(30 + 2) 

 5(32 − 2) 

 5(30 − 2)

anonymous · Answer

5(30+2)

anonymous · Answer

alright so if everyone in the class gets 5 cookies, and there is 32 students you can multiply this out

5*32=160, next just use the distributive property to go through each answer if you get 160=160, that is the correct answer