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A family of two adults and three children went to a waterpark. Admission to the waterpark cost 18 per person. Nora used the expression 2(18)+3(18) to model the cost for the family, and Alex use the expression 5(18). Which property of operations make both of their expressions correct.

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Nora is correct 2 adults means 2•18 and 3 children so 3•18... distributive property
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Distributive property
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