Question

How do you use the distributive property to find the price of 7 CDs that cost $14.99 each?

Answer 1

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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 `14+0.99`

So we have: `7(14+0.99)`

The distributive property permits every thing inside the brackets to be multiplied by the 7

So we have:

`(7xx14) + (7xx0.99)`

`98+6.93`

`104.93`
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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

`14.99(5+2)` Trust me! this will give you the same answer as above.