standard_description: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
problem_activity: Task
Lucia uses the picture below to explain the distributive property for the expression (3+1) $\times$ (5+1):
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Find (3+1) $\times$ (5+1) using the distributive property.
Explain how Lucia's picture relates to your calculation in (a).
How can Lucia use a picture to find (3-1) $\times$ (5-1) using the distributive property? Explain.


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