What is 2w-8(-7w 9)?

Answer 1

In this problem we will start by remembering the order of operations, and know that parenthesis come first.

Let's assume that our problem is 2w-8(-7w+9), because a term was missing, I am adding this plus sign.

Now we have -8 times something in parenthesis, so we will use the distributive property. This is done by taking -8 times the first term, -7w, and then times our second term, 9.

So now we have 2w+56w-72.

We combine like terms, and get 58w-72.