Question

Reese is selling lemonade at the parade. He gets to keep 50% of the money he collects. A large lemonade is $6.00 and a small lemonade is $2.00. The expression represents 50% of the money he collects. 0.50(6l + 2s) Use the Distributive Property to expand the expression. The simplified expression is

Answer 1

3l + 1s

Explanation:

Given that:

The expression to represent 50% of the money collected : 0.50(6l + 2s)

Expanding the expression :

0.50(6l + 2s)

(0.50 * 6l) + (0.50 * 2s)

3l + 1s

Hence, the simplified expression is 3l + 1s