Question

What property was used in step 1 to arrive at step 2?

Step 1: 5 (x minus 7) = 55. Step 2: 5 x minus 35 = 55. Step 3: 5 x = 90. Step 4: x = 18.
distributive property
addition property of equality
subtraction property of equality
division property of equality

Answer 1

distribute property

Explanation:

5 is distributed into the parentheses.

5 × x = 5x

5 × (-7) = -35

5x - 35 = 55

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

The distributive property was used to move from step 1 to step 2, by multiplying 5 with each term inside the parentheses to get 5x - 35 = 55. therefore, option A is correct

The property used in moving from step 1 to step 2 in the equation is the distributive property. This property allows the multiplication of a single term by each term inside a set of parentheses. The equation starts with 5 (x minus 7) = 55, and applying the distributive property, we multiply 5 by x and 5 by -7, which gives us 5x - 35 = 55. Therefore, the correct answer is the distributive property, which was used to distribute the multiplication of 5 across the terms within the parentheses.