### Instruction: Compute $\begin{pmatrix} -3 \\ 5 \end{pmatrix} \cdot \begin{pmatrix} -2 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix}$.### Response: This is a dot product of two vectors, which means I need to multiply the corresponding components and then add them up.
So I get $(-3)(-2) + (5)(1)$.