SOLUTION: Paperback books are on sale for $3.95 each including tax. Explain how you could use the Distributive Property to mentally calculate the total cost of buying 7 paperback books.
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Question 160215: Paperback books are on sale for $3.95 each including tax. Explain how you could use the Distributive Property to mentally calculate the total cost of buying 7 paperback books. Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can see that 3.95 is close to 4.00 or exactly 4.00-0.05.
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7*$3.95=$27.65, no calculator needed thanks to the distributive property.
