For your birthday you go to the movies with three friends. you buy 4 boxes of popcorn, one for you and one for each of your friends. the tickets cost $5.75 each and the popcorn costs $4.25 per box. the total cost can be expressed by (4 • 5.75) + (4 • 4.25). rewrite this expression using the distributive property and then solve. explain why using the distributive property makes finding the total easier. show your work.