Question

Explain how you could mentally find 8 x 45 by using the distributive property

Answer 1

First, break up 45 into 40 and 5 then multipy 8(40) which equals 320 and multipy 8(5) which equals 40. Thrn add 320+40 to get the product 360.
Hope this helped

8x45
8(40)+8(5)
320+40
360