Asmall child makes 3 piles of blocks in a room. each pile has 4 blocks. in another room, he makes 6 more piles of blocks. these piles also have 4 blocks each. to count the total number of blocks, his sister counts that there are 3 times 4, or 12 blocks, in one room and 6 times 4, or 24 blocks, in the other room for a total of 36 blocks. using the distributive property, what is another way she could have counted the blocks?