How do you use the distributive property to find the price of 7 CDs that cost $14.99 each?
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Feb 26, 2017
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Explanation:
There are all sorts of ways you may approach this. It all depends on how you partition (split up) the $14.99. Thus there are many ways that your solution can be correct.
I chose: Split $14.99 into
So we have:
The distributive property permits every thing inside the brackets to be multiplied by the 7
So we have:
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If you so chose you could split up the seven instead. You are still demonstrating the distributive property.
I chose to split 7 into 5+2 so we now have