Question

At the state fair you buy for combo meals for you and your three friends each meal comes with three chicken tenders in two fried Oreos how many chicken tenders and fried Oreos do you buy altogether? How could you set up and solve this problem using the distributive property

Answer 1

To solve this problem using the distributive property, we need to multiply the number of combo meals by the number of chicken tenders and fried Oreos in each meal, and then add them together.

If each combo meal comes with 3 chicken tenders and 2 fried Oreos, and you buy 4 combo meals, you would multiply:

4 combo meals x (3 chicken tenders + 2 fried Oreos)

Using the distributive property, we distribute the 4 to each term inside the parentheses:

(4 x 3 chicken tenders) + (4 x 2 fried Oreos)

This simplifies to:

12 chicken tenders + 8 fried Oreos

So, altogether you would buy 12 chicken tenders and 8 fried Oreos.