Question

Cecily picked 219 apples.She divided the apples equally into 3 baskets.How many apples are in each basket? {use distributive property}

Answer 1

73 apple per basket.

Answer 2

73 apple per basket.

Explanation:

If we divided equally 219 apples into three baskets, we have:
`(219)/(3)=73`. So, in each basket would be 73 apples.

In this problem, we distributes 73 apples for each basket, but mathematically we don't apply a distributive property, because the operation we want to make is division, we want to divide, to fraction some total into three parts. Because if we express 3(73), that's not a distributive property, that's just multiplication. To force the distributive property we could express: 3(70+3), but that's not useful at all.

Therefore, the answer is 73 apple per basket.