SOLUTION: I am taking an online Algebra Skills course. The homework has this problem, but I don't know what the back slashes mean: Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses

Question 758553: I am taking an online Algebra Skills course. The homework has this problem, but I don't know what the back slashes mean:
Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses.
-\(2x+5-y\)
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

..in front of the parentheses is minus sign which means you multiply by all terms in the parentheses

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