Question

For exercise 68 and 69, use the graph at the right.

Evaluate the expression from Exercise 68 using the Distributive Property.

Short answer

Expression from exercise 68 results into 62.15

Step-by-step solution

- Observations from image

Amount average student contributed is $\$113$

Percentage of amount spend by students for shopping at specialty stores is 36%

Percentage of amount spend by students for shopping at department stores is 19%

- Write expression exercise 68 

Expression in exercise 68 using distributive property is

$A=\left(0.36+0.19\right)\times 113$

- Simplify 

To evaluate the expression, simplify parentheses then multiply resulting numbers.

$\begin{array}{c}A=\left(0.36+0.19\right)\times 113\\ =\left(0.55\right)\times 113\\ =62.15\end{array}$