Amazon is packing boxes of extra notebooks to send to the local schools (algebra)

Question

8. Spiral Review: Amazon is packing boxes of extra notebooks to send to the local schools. The cost to produce the notebooks is represented by the expression 2/3 (3600 + 45x), where x is the total number of notebooks produced. Write an expression to show the expression simplified.

Answer 1

To simplify this expression, just apply the distributive property!

It basically says: to multiply a number by a sum, multiply both parts of the sum by the number.

In your problem multiply 3600 and 45x both by 2/3 to find the simplified expression.