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Simplify -0.7(3x+5) show your work

User Nikita Axyonov
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We will use the distributive property to simplify this expression.

The distributive property is:


a(b+c)=ab+ac

Let's apply it to the expression:


\begin{gathered} -0.7(3x+5) \\ =(-0.7)(3x)+(-0.7)(5) \\ =-2.1x-3.5 \end{gathered}

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