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Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses -5(-y³+1 - 2x²)

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By the distributive property of multiplication, we can say that:


a(b+c)=ab+ac

Then, we can rewrite the expression:


\begin{gathered} -5(-y^3+1-2x^2) \\ 5\cdot y^3-1\cdot5+5\cdot2x^2 \\ 5y^3-5+10x^2 \end{gathered}

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