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A family of two adults and three children went to a water park. Admission to the water park costs $18 per person. Nora used the expression 2(18)+3(18) to model the total cost for the family, and Alex used the expression 5(18). Which property of operations makes both of their expressions correct? O associative property O commutative property O distributive property identity property​

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Answer:

distributive property

Explanation:

5(18)=2(18)+3(18)

Distributive property

c(a+b) = ca+cb

We are using the left hand side and adding a+b

18(2+3) = 2* 18+ 3*18

18*5 = 2* 18+ 3*18

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