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#1 Re: Help Me ! » distributive property vs multiplication of polynomials » 2014-12-28 05:26:06

In this case I left the 5 there to plug the result of the distributive. So I would work it out like this: 5-7x(x+2) -> doing the distributive of 7x(x+2) results in -7x*x + 7x*2 -> so 5-7x(x+2) would become 5 - 7x*x + 7x*2

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