Mrs. linden bought 1.25 pounds of dried fruit and o.5 pound of cereal. if mrs. linden paid for her items with 5.00 how much change will she receive?

£3.25

Step-by-step explanation:

You would add £1.25 and £00.50 which is £1.75 then you would do £5.00-£1.75 which is £3.25

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: