Precalculus Examples

$| (- \frac{1}{3}) (- 15) |$

Step 1

Cancel the common factor of $3$ .

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Step 1.1

Move the leading negative in $- \frac{1}{3}$ into the numerator.

$| \frac{- 1}{3} \cdot - 15 |$

Step 1.2

Factor $3$ out of $- 15$ .

$| \frac{- 1}{3} \cdot (3 (- 5)) |$

Step 1.3

Cancel the common factor.

$| \frac{- 1}{3} \cdot (3 \cdot - 5) |$

Step 1.4

Rewrite the expression.

$| - 1 \cdot - 5 |$

Step 2

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 5$ .

$| 5 |$

Step 3

The absolute value is the distance between a number and zero. The distance between $0$ and $5$ is $5$ .

$5$