Which number has the smaller number? -5 or -15? explain your answer.

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The correct answer would be -15.

If you think about it -15 would be further away from 0 than -5, thus making it smaller.

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for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: