How do you check 19 times 6 using the distributive property?

Answer 1

One way to do this is to write 19(6)=(20-1)6=20(6)-1(6) and since it is easy to multiply 20 times 6 (=120) and 6 (-1) (=-6), we are left with

120-6 which is relatively easy to calculate in our head

120-6=114.