Distributive property with negative numbers
Year 7 maths · Fieldbook Learning
Name ______________________ Date __________
Multiply the number outside the parentheses by every term inside. Write the answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 3(−3x + 8). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 2(3x − 2). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 3(2x − 9). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 3(x + 8). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −4(x − 7). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −7(x + 1). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −7(−2x + 4). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −2(x + 11). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 7(x − 10). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −4(x − 13). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 10(−x − 11). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −11(−x + 5). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 15(−x − 19). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 11(3x − 2). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 15(3x − 15). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 2(x + 8). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 8(x + 26). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 12(−x + 13). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: 9(2x − 13). Write your answer as ax + b.
- Expand: −9(x + 3). Write your answer as ax + b.