Jessica took her mother to a movie. she paid $9 each for 2 tickets, $4 each for 2 nachos, and $3 each for 2 bottles of water. use distributive property to show two different ways to solve the problem. how much did she spend?

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For this problem, let's write out all of the amounts of each thing that was bought, like this:



This represents the 2 $9.00 items, the 2 $4.00 items, and the 2 $3.00 items, all in one problem. To figure out how much the amount spent would be total, all you have to do is add up all of the numbers:







This means that $32.00 were spent, total. 

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No a triangle cannot be formed because when you add the two smallest number together (which would be 11) the have to be bigger than the number it is "against" ( which would be 12)