Question

At the market, Joey buys 3 avocados for $0.40 each and 5 lemons for $0.40 each. The cashier in training rings up 3 × 0.40 and then 5 × 0.40 to get the total. The experienced cashier says to add the 3 plus 5 in his head and then ring up 8 × 0.40.

What property says that these two totals would be the same?

multiplicative identity
associative property of multiplication
distributive property
commutative property of multiplication

Answer 1

answer is distributive property

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Distributive property

Explanation:

3*$0.40 + 5*$0.40 = (3+5)*$0.40

• Distributive law, in mathematics, the law relating the operations of multiplication and addition, stated symbolically, a(b + c) = ab + ac
• According to distributive property multiplying the sum of two or more addends by a number will give the same result as multiplying each addend individually by the number and then adding the products together.