Every day for 11 days, Tylia saw 23 sport cars pass her bedroom window. Write a numerical expression to describe how many sports cars she saw in all. Rewrite the expression using the Distributive Property so that you can mentally calculate how many sports cars she saw.
To find out how many sports cars Tylia saw in 11 days, you can multiply the number of days (11) by the number of sport cars she saw each day (23) using a numerical expression.
The numerical expression would be:
11 * 23
Now, to rewrite the expression using the Distributive Property, you can break down one of the numbers into smaller factors that are easier to mentally compute.
For example, you can rewrite 23 as 20 + 3:
11 * (20 + 3)
Using the Distributive Property, you can distribute the 11 to both the 20 and the 3:
11 * 20 + 11 * 3
This simplifies to:
220 + 33
Finally, you can mentally calculate the sum of 220 and 33 to find out the total number of sports cars Tylia saw:
253
Therefore, Tylia saw a total of 253 sports cars in 11 days.