One week, Manuel worked his regular 40 hours and 5.75 hours of overtime. If his regular hourly rate is $9.25 per hour, what is his gross pay for the week if he earns time and a
half for overtime?

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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:

the correct answer is c