How do you evaluate $(- 2) ( - 3) - ( - 4) ( - 5)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-03-30T16:09:43

$-14$

When numbers are in parentheses next to each other, it means they are being multiplied:

$-2 xx -3 = 6$

$-4 xx -5 = 20$

So now we have:

$6-20$

And we can solve that:

$6-20=-14$

How do you evaluate (- 2) ( - 3) - ( - 4) ( - 5)(- 2) ( - 3) - ( - 4) ( - 5)?