Question

Error Analysis A sports team with 17 members is planning an end-of-season awards banquet. It costs $6 for each meal. To find the total cost of the meals, the team uses the expression 6(g + 17) where g is the number of guests attending the banquet. One team member in correctly claims that the expression is equivalent to 6g + 17. Use the Distributive Property to write an expression equivalent to 6(g + 17). What was the likely error? Use the Distributive Property to write an equivalent expression. Will send image.

Answer 1

`6(g+17)`

we distribute the multiplication of 6 by each term of the parenthesis

`\begin{gathered} (6* g)+(6*17) \\ 6g+107 \end{gathered}`

the the equivalent expression is (6g+107)