Question

The drawing shows the kitchen and eating area in Rowan and Claire's house. Rowan uses a horizontal line to break apart the shape into rectangles to find the area of ​​the kitchen and eating area. Explain how Rowan can use the Distributive Property to find the area.

Answer 1

ex. if it was 18h + 27a the answer will be 9(2h + 3a) because 9 is the GCF and if u multiply the 9 by 2h it will be 18h then multiply 9 by 3a it will be 27 and that will give you the answer of 18h + 27a in Distributive Property