Question

Marla did 65 sit ups each day for one week.Use the distributive property to show an expression you can use to find the total number of sit ups Marla did during the week

Answer 1

The distributive property  lets you multiply a sum by multiplying each addend separately first and then summing the products together.
Marla did 65 x 7 = 455 sit-ups during the week

65 sit-ups can be written as 60+5 sit ups or as 50+15 sit-ups or as 40+25 sit-ups (these are just examples)

Applying the distributive property:
Marla did: (60 x 7) + (5 x 7) = 455 sit-ups during the week, or
Marla did: (50 x 7) + (15 x 7) = 455 sit-ups during the week, or
Marla did: (40 x 7) + (25 x 7) = 455 sit-ups per week

You can try this with any two numbers whose sum is 65 and all will give you the same answer.