What is -7(y - 8) by using the distributive property and simplifying it after?

-7y + 56

Step-by-step explanation: Let's simplify this problem using the distributive property. The first thing we want to do is to change the minus to plus a negative.

Now we can distribute or multiply the -7 times each of the terms inside the set of parentheses. So we get -7 times y + -7 times -8

and this simplifies to -7y + 56.

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