Question

hey! who wuvzzzzzzz money??? $$$$$ meeee deb is saving $54 per month to buy a new camera. use the distributive property to mentally find how much she has saved after 7 months. explain.

Answer 1

you save 378 in 7 months

Answer 2

basically
54 times 7
what's the answer

distributive says
a(b+c)=ab+ac
we can split 54 times 7 into
we know that 54=50+4

so we can do 7 times 54 as
7(50+4)=7(50)+7(4)=350+28=378

she saved $378 after 7 months