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Step-by-Step Multiplication of Fractions and Integers in Business Forecasting

An operations supervisor wants to ensure that team members can manually verify the calculations performed by the company's automated planning tools. A key formula used in the software multiplies a negative scaling constant by a negative integer variable: 125(20x)-\frac{12}{5}(-20x). Recalling the standard mathematical procedure for this operation, describe in detail the step-by-step process required to evaluate and simplify this product to its final form. Your response should outline the rule used to determine the sign, how to set up the terms as fractions, the multiplication of numerators and denominators, and the division of the common factor.

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