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A student attempted to generate an equivalent expression using the distributive property, as shown below: 5(x − 1) = 5x − 1 What was the mistake made? (1 point) 5 was not multiplied by x Incorrect sign was used for the first term 5 was not multiplied by −1 Incorrect sign was used for the second term​

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5 was not multiplied by -1

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