Question

Jessica took her mother to a movie. she paid $9 each for 2 tickets, $4 each for 2 nachos, and $3 each for 2 bottles of water. Use distributive property to show two different ways to solve the problem. How much did she spend?

Answer 1

You do first 9times2 then 4 times 2 then 2times3 the answer is[32]

Answer 2

Hey there! Hello!

For this problem, let's write out all of the amounts of each thing that was bought, like this:


`9+9+4+4+3+3`

This represents the 2 $9.00 items, the 2 $4.00 items, and the 2 $3.00 items, all in one problem. To figure out how much the amount spent would be total, all you have to do is add up all of the numbers:


`9+9+4+4+6`

`9+9+8+6`

`18+8+6`

`18+14`

`32`

This means that $32.00 were spent, total.

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