Rodrigo placed 3 large stickers on each of 5 pages in the sticker book. then, he placed 6 small stickers on each of 5 pages. the expression 5x3x6 shows the total number of stickers he used. use the distributive property write this expression another way.
My answer is 5(3+6)
Is this right?
while 5(3+6) is correct, it does not equal 5x3x6.
It equals 5*3 + 5*6
Your answer, 5(3+6), is incorrect. Let me explain how to correctly write the expression using the distributive property.
The distributive property states that for any numbers a, b, and c, the expression a(b + c) is equal to ab + ac.
In this case, a = 5, b = 3, and c = 6. So, we can write the expression 5x3x6 using the distributive property as:
5(3 + 6)
Now, let's simplify this expression. Inside the parentheses, we have 3 + 6, which gives us 9. Therefore, the simplified expression is:
5(9)
And multiplying 5 by 9, we get:
45
Hence, the correct expression using the distributive property is 5(3 + 6) = 45.