SOLUTION: How do you do this problem? -(7t-4s+3)

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Question 497515: How do you do this problem? -(7t-4s+3)
Answer by Flannery(124) About Me  (Show Source):
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The minus sign in front of the parentheses is really a negative one. Multiply each term inside the parentheses by -1 (use the distributave property). All it will do in the case of multiplying by -1 is change the sign in front of each term. Hence -7t+4s-3 is the answer.