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Mary’s backyard vegetable garden measures 20 ft by 30 ft, so its area is 20*30=600 ft 2. She decides to make it longer, as shown in the figure, so that the area increases to A=20(30+x). Which property of real numbers tells us that the new area can also be written A=600+20x?

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Answer:

Distributive Property

Explanation:

Example of distributive property is: 5 (4 + 7) = 5 × 4 + 5 × 7

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the answer is 60020 I am not sure if it is correct

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