Question

dvds are on sale for $24 each. felipe writes the expression 4 x 24 to find the cost in dollars of buying 4 dvds. how can you rewrite felipes expression using the distributive property

Answer 1

$24 equals 1 DVD
? equals 4 DVD
THEN CROSS MULTIPLY.....24 TIMES 4 WHICH WILL GIVE YOU $96 FOR 4 DVD'S

Answer 2

`4* 20+4* 4`

Explanation:

We have been given that DVD's are on sale for $24 each. Felipe writes the expression 4 x 24 to find the cost in dollars of buying 4 DVD's.

We can rewrite Felipe's expression by writing 24 as sum of 20 and 4.

`4* (20+4)`

Using distributive property
`a(b+c)=ab+ac`, we will get:

`4* 20+4* 4`

`80+16=96`

Therefore, we can rewrite Felipe's expression using distributive property as
`4* 20+4* 4`.