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Explain how you could mentally find 8x45 by using Distrubitive property

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The distributive property
multiplying a sum by a number is the same as multiplying each addend by the number and then adding the products

8x45= 360
8x40=320
8x5=40
8x40 + 8x5 = 360


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You could do 8x40=320 and then do 8x5=40 and lastly do 320+40=360
I hope that this helps you!!!
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