How do you simplify $-5(8 - b)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-30T06:13:02

$-40 + 5b$

$-5(8-b)$

Use the distributive property (shown below) to simplify this:
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Following this image, we know that:
$color(blue)(-5(8-b) = (-5 * 8) + (-5 * -b) = -40 + 5b)$

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