Question

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

Answer 1

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

$a(b+c)=ab+ac$

Then, we can rewrite the expression:

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