How do you multiply $-5(3x - 7)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-29T05:37:45

$-15x+35$

We can use the distributive property. Here, we simply multiply the outside term by every term inside. We now have

$-5(3x)-5(-7)$

Recall that the product of different signs is a negative, and the product of like signs is a positive. We now have

$-15x+35$

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