Question

All 27 students in Joe’s class bought the same items. The expression below shows the total spent by ALL 27 students:

27(2p + 4e + 10p + 20)
a) What property can be used to simplify the expression:

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b) Simplify the expression:

Answer 1

I will give you the explanation, figure out the answer.

Explanation:

For this expression, you need to distribute 27 into the expression inside the parantheses.

Distributing will look like this:

(27 x 2p) + (27 x 4e) + (27 x 10p) + (27 x 20)

Now to get the simplified version of this expression, you just need to multiply and combine like terms!