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Simplify the expression: –3(n − 5)

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Answer:

-35+7u

Explanation:

User Tom Bunting
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Because of the minus sign 3 becomes -3

The answer is -3

n-5 evaluates to n-5

Multiply -3 by n-5

we multiply -3 by each term in n-5 term by term.

This is the distributive property of multiplication.

Multiply -3 and n

Multiply 1 and n

The n just gets copied along.
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