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

@julie001

rainbow_dash · Answer

Your answer is a simple one.  In reality you would just multiply 3 by 23 because that would be 3 cookies per person in the class. But since you're using the distributive property, you'll want to pick 3(20 + 3).

3 x 20 = 60
3 x 3 = 9
60 + 9 = 69, which is 3 x 23.