Question

Jolene bought 3 plants at a greenhouse. Each plant cost $2.50. To calculate the total cost of the plants, Jolene added (3(2)) + (3(0.50)). What property of multiplication did she use?*

A.Distributive Property
B.Associative Property
C.Commutative Property
D.Identity Property

Answer 1

The answer is

A.Distributive Property

Explanation:

Distributive property of multiplication has to do with the multiplication of numbers by the sum of that number

say in our given example $2.05.

When we decide to multiply 3 property with $2 and $0.5 which when added together will still give $2.05, we are using distributive property of multiplication.

Hence according to distributive property 3*$2.05 is the same as

3*$2 + 3*$0.5