describe how you would use the distributive property to simplify {39×5}
Have you learnt about prime numbers yet? 5 is a prime number so you can't break it up into smaller numbers other than obviously 51. 39 is not a prime number. At first glance you should be able to tell that its a multiple of 3 right?
39=313
Now you have smaller numbers.
3135=13*15.
I guess that's what the answer is.