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.
To use the distributive property, we can simplify the expression 0.5(200 + 32s) by multiplying 0.5 by each term inside the parentheses:
0.5 * 200 + 0.5 * 32s
This can be further simplified to:
100 + 16s
Therefore, an equivalent expression using the distributive property is 100 + 16s.
To use the distributive property, we need to distribute the 0.5 to each term inside the parentheses.
0.5(200+32s) can be written as:
0.5 * 200 + 0.5 * 32s
Simplifying this expression:
100 + 16s