Question

Use the distributive property to write two different expressions equal to 96.

Answer 1

Answer:

96 = 3 * 32, and 32 = 16 + 16, so we can say:

96 = 3(16 + 16)

96 is also equal to 2 * 48, and 48 equals 36 + 12, so we can also say:

96 = 2(36 + 12)

If you want to go with the ridiculous, you have an infinite number of combinations you could do like that.  For example:

96 = 0.15(1423987123497 - 1423987122857)