Unit: distributive property grade 100 choose which best explains the distributive property. a(b + c) = ab + ac, or a(b - c) = ab - ac 3(20 + 4) = 72 6(30 – 3) =162 -4(9 + 6) = -60 -2(8 - 1) answer; -14 5(12 + 5) = 85 tia's teacher asked her to find the product of 8 and 207 in her head. which of the following describes the best way for tia to mentally calculate the answer? multiply 8 by 200 and add 8 times 7. mara and taylor need to rent a car for 6 days. if the cost of the car is $105 for each day, which of the following expressions could they use to figure out the total cost? 6(100) + 6(5) in chad's reading class, all the students are reading the same book. the school bought each student a book at $7 per book. if there are 27 students in chad's class, which of the following expressions could not be used to calculate the total cost? 7(30) - 7(7) use the distributive property to find the product of 9 and 23. 207 distribute -3(40 - 2). -114 which of the following expressions is not equivalent to (-2)(8 + 6 + -3)? (-2)(8 + 6) + (-3)