Tickets for the school play cost $17 each. Gary wrote the expression n X 17 to find the cost of n tickets to the play. He used the Distributive Property to find the product. Use the Distributive Property to write Gary's expression another way.

Well, the distributive property is that by which the multiplication of a number by a sum will give us the same as the sum of each of the addends multiplied by that number.

We have then that the expression used by Gary:

n = X * 17

Using the distributive property we have another way to rewrite the expression is:

n = 17 * X

Where,

x: is the sum of all tickets sold.

Answer:

n = 17 * X