Mei is playing a game with numbers. She decided to rewrite the number 78 using the distributive property. Which answer is a correct way to rewrite 78 using distributive property of multiplication over addition.

Answer 1

To rewrite the number 78 using the distributive property, we can break it down into the sum of two numbers. One number can be multiplied by a factor and the other number remains as it is.
So, we can rewrite 78 as 70 + 8 using the distributive property of multiplication over addition.