Can someone please help me?

Question

I have to turn in this homework really soon and I'm only stuck on this last question.

"Describe how you would use the distributive property to simplify 39 x 5"

I don't know how Distributive property works and if somebody could at least explain that would be great :)

Answer 1

(30+9)*5=?
distributive is breaking apart a big number to make multiplication easier. To do this you basically multiplying inside the parentheses, and add them together.(30*5)+(9*5)=?

Answer 2

Thank you so much for the help!

Answer 3

This also works with division for future reference.

Answer 4

maybe the simplification they are looking for is ... 39 = 40 - 1

5 * (40 - 1) = 200 - 5 ... easy numbers...

Answer 5

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