Mitch needs to do his laundry. It takes him 75 minutes to do each load
when he washes and dries the load. It takes him 43 less minutes if he
hangs up his laundry to dry. He decides to hang up one load of laundry
to dry.
Mitch writes the equation 75r -43 = 332, where x is the number of loads
of laundry he needs to do in order to determine how long it is going to
take him.
The next step Mitch wrote to solve the equation is shown here: 75r = 375
Which property did he use to get to this step?
A
addition property of equality
B
distributive property
C
subtraction property of equality
D
combining like-terms