DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY WORD PROBLEMS WPORKSHEET

Problem 1 :

The Valley High School Auditorium is able to seat 8 elementary school groups of 65 students. Use the Distributive Property to determine how many students they can seat.

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Problem 2 :

Five friends each buy a shirt that costs x dollars and a pair of shoes that cost $24.00. Write an expression to show how much total money they spent. Then rewrite the expression using the Distributive Property.

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Problem 3 :

A rental company buys 7 more compact cars for $8,500 each and 7 more midsize cars for $12,500 each. How much total money will they spend?

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Problem 4 :

A baking company charges $1.75 per slice for baking and $0.35 per slice for decorating. How much would a decorated cake cost containing 150 slices?

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Use the table that shows the umber of seats available on various types of aircrafts.

Problem 5 :

How many total seats will the airline gain by purchasing three more of both the 737 aircrafts and MD-88 aircrafts?

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Problem 6 :

How many more people can sit on four 777 aircrafts than on four 767 aircrafts?

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Problem 8 :

The price for each textbook is p. The number of notebooks bought by Lily, Jim and Jessica is a, b and c. Write an expression to represent the total cost of all the notebooks bought by 3 people.

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Problem 9 :

The price each meter of wire is u, and there are 3 parts of wires whose length are x, y and z. Write the expression which represents the cost of buying the 3 parts of wire.

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Problem 10 :

For two days, your boss decides to double the commission on what you sell. If on day 1, you make f dollars in commission and and day 2, you make g dollars in commission, write an expression for the total commission you earn.

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