Question

There are two rows of 8 chairs set up in the library for a puppetshow how many chairs are set up use the distributive property to solve

Answer 1

4 chairs are in each row 

Answer 2

It there are 2 rows of 8 chairs all you have to do is add 8+8 which equals 16
Unless it means there are 8 chairs altogether split into 2 even rows then you do 8\2 =4

I would write down both answers if your not sure which one it is :)