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What is -2(3d+12y-5-17x-16y+4) simplified?

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Hoi hoi!

It will be -2 * (3d - 4y - 17x -1)

Hope this helps brain fam,

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What is -2(3d+12y-5-17x-16y+4) simplified?-example-1
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Woah. So in this expression, the Distributive Property would have to be used alot, since there's one number outside the parenthesis, and the rest are all inside the parenthesis. So we would distribute the -2 to each of the terms inside the parentheses. That would have you at : (and also, by distributing, you get rid of the -2 outside the parentheses.)

-6d - 24y + 10 + 34x + 32y - 8.

But there are still like terms here, so this can be simplified even further. There are two terms with y, and two whole terms. This y-numbers would make:

-6d +8y + 10 + 34x - 8

And then there are the whole numbers, which would further simplify this to:

-6d + 8y + 2 + 34x. There are no more like terms, so this is your answer.

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