distributive property

Question

A baking company charges $1.75 per slice of cake for baking and $0.35 per slice for decorating. write an expression using the distributive property to determine the cost of the cake. how much would a decorated cake cost containing 150 slices ?

Answer 1

Let s = the number of slices in a cake.

Then cost, c, of s slices is c = s(1.75 + .35)