Question

Ralph's flower garden has two sections as shown in the picture. Which expression uses the Distributive Property to find the total area of Ralph's flower garden?

Answer 1

The answer is the second option: $12(6+3)$

The explanation is shown below:

1. To solve and expression by applying the Distributive property, this expression must have the following form:

$a(b+c)$

2. As you can see in the figure attached, the second option has that form. Therefore, that is the rigth option.

3. You can solve it as following:

$12(6+3)=(12)(6)+(12)(3)=72+36=108$

Which is the total area.