Question

Tickets for the school play cost $17 each. Gary wrote the expression n X 17 to find the cost of n tickets to the play. He used the Distributive Property to find the product. Use the Distributive Property to write Gary's expression another way.

Answer 1

Well, the distributive property is that by which the multiplication of a number by a sum will give us the same as the sum of each of the addends multiplied by that number.
 We have then that the expression used by Gary:
 n = X * 17
 Using the distributive property we have another way to rewrite the expression is:
 n = 17 * X
 Where,
 x: is the sum of all tickets sold.
 Answer:
 n = 17 * X