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A family of two adults and three children went to a water park. Admission to the water park costs $18 per person. Nora used the expression 2 (18) + 3 (18) to model the total cost for the family, and Alex used the expression 5 (18). Which property of operations makes both of their expressions correct? associative property commutative property distributive property identity property

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Answer: Distributive Property

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Answer: distributive property

Explanation:


5(18)=2(18)+3(18)


18(2+3) = 2* 18+ 3*18


18*5 = 2* 18+ 3*18

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