use n*17 in another way in the disturbutive property

Question

tickets for the school play cost 17$ each. gary wrote n*17 to find the cost of n tickets to the play. he used the distrubutive property to find the product.use the disturbutive property to write garrys expression anouther way

Answer 1

17=20-3, so 17n is the same as (20-3)n=20n-3n. Example: let n=52, then we need to calculate 20*52-3*52=1040-156=884=17*52.