Math Time is a tutoring company for pre-algebra students. The profit this company makes in a year is given by the expression 0.5(200+32s), where s
is the total number of students enrolled.
Part A: Use the distributive property to write an equivalent expression.
0.5(200+32s) is equivalent to 0.5*200 + 0.5*32s.
To use the distributive property on the expression 0.5(200+32s), we distribute the 0.5 to both terms inside the parentheses:
0.5 * 200 + 0.5 * 32s
This simplifies to:
100 + 16s