Given:
The equation is:

To find:
The next step in simplifying the equation by using distributive property.
Solution:
Distributive property: According to this property if a, b and c are three real numbers, then

We have,

Using the distributive property, we get

It can be written as:

Therefore, the next step of the simplification is
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You need to subtract 25 by 18
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use mathpapa look it up it should give your anwser i cant copy and paste it, but its there
just put in the numbers