You are replacing your regular shower head with a water-saving shower head. These shower heads use the amount of water per minute shown. If you take an 8-min shower, how many gallons of water will you save? Which would you use to represent water saved each minute, an expression involving addition or an expression involving subtraction? How can you use the Distributive Property to find the total amount of water saved?

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You are replacing your regular shower head with a water-saving shower head. These shower heads use the amount of water per minute shown. If you take an 8-min shower, how many gallons of water will you save?

Which would you use to represent water saved each minute, an expression involving addition or an expression involving subtraction?

How can you use the Distributive Property to find the total amount of water saved?

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