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Error Analysis  A sports team with 19 members is planning an​ end-of-season awards banquet. It costs ​$5 for each meal. To find the total cost of the​ meals, the team uses the expression 5​(gplus19​), where g is the number of guests attending the banquet. One team member incorrectly claims that the expression is equivalent to 5gplus19. Use the Distributive Property to write an expression equivalent to 5​(gplus19​). What was the likely​ error?
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Part 1
Use the Distributive Property to write an equivalent expression.
5​(gplus19​)equals
  
enter your response here ​(Simplify your​ answer.)

Answer 1

5(g + 19) = 5g + 95.

Likely error: the student only multiplied 5 by g and forgot to multiply 5 by 19 — they did not apply the distributive property to both terms inside the parentheses.