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a small child makes 3 piles of blocks in a room. each pile has 4 blocks. in another room, he makes 6 morepiles of blocks. these piles also have 4 blocks each. to count the total number of blocks, his sister counts there are 3 times 4, or 12 blocks in one room and 6 times 4, or 24 blocks, in the other room for a total of 36 blocks. using the distributive property, what is another way she could have counted the blocks?

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