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### Unit 10: Lesson 5

Area and the distributive property

# Area and the distributive property

## Problem

Each square in the figure below has an area of 1 square unit. We can break the figure into two parts.
A square divided into unit squares with 7 rows and 7 columns. A curved bracket across the rows is labeled 7 and a curved bracket across the columns is labeled 7. The first 2 rows are shaded purple and a curved bracket across these rows is labeled 2. The last 5 rows are shaded pink and a curved bracket across these rows is labeled 5.
Complete the equations to find the area of the entire figure.
start text, A, r, e, a, end textequals, start color #543b78, 2, start text, space, s, e, v, e, n, s, end text, end color #543b78, plus, start color #9e034e, 5, start text, space, s, e, v, e, n, s, end text, end color #9e034e
equals, start color #543b78, 14, end color #543b78, plus
equals
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