Algebra Examples

$y = - 5 (x + 7)$

Step 1

Simplify $- 5 (x + 7)$ .

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Step 1.1

Apply the distributive property.

$y = - 5 x - 5 \cdot 7$

Step 1.2

Multiply $- 5$ by $7$ .

$y = - 5 x - 35$

Step 2

A linear equation is an equation of a straight line, which means that the degree of a linear equation must be $0$ or $1$ for each of its variables. In this case, the degree of variable $y$ is $1$ and the degree of variable $x$ is $1$ .

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