Tessa's Blossoms sells roses in groups of 18. Across town, Rick's Blooms sells roses in groups of 10. A customer bought one 18 yellow roses from Tessa's and 10 red roses from Rick's. He wants to put the roses into vases so that there are an equal number of yellow roses and an equal number of red roses in each vase.    Write an expression using the distributive property to show how the roses are distributed.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012
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Chapter1: Variables, Expressions, And Integers
Section1.5: Adding Integers
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Tessa's Blossoms sells roses in groups of 18. Across town, Rick's Blooms sells roses in groups of 10. A customer bought one 18 yellow roses from Tessa's and 10 red roses from Rick's. He wants to put the roses into vases so that there are an equal number of yellow roses and an equal number of red roses in each vase. 

 

Write an expression using the distributive property to show how the roses are distributed.

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