Jared has 96 books to arrange on 6 shelves of a bookcase. He wants each shelf to have the same number of books. Using the distributive property, write an expression Jared can use to find out how many books he can put on each shelf.
Answer (2)
Jared can distribute his 96 books evenly across 6 shelves by dividing 96 by 6. He will use the **distributive * property, resulting in the expression 6 (b) = 96, where b represents the number of books per shelf. ;
Jared can arrange his 96 books evenly on 6 shelves using the expression 6 ⋅ b = 96 . Dividing gives him 16 books per shelf. Thus, each shelf will hold 16 books.
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