Question

4(3x – 1) – 2(6 + 2x)

Part A: What is the simplified form of the expression above?



Part B: What Property is used to simplify the above expression?

Answer 1

Part A: 8x-16
Part B: I’m not too sure the exact property but you first use the distributive property to distribute the numbers outside the parentheses to the terms inside. Afterwards, you just collect like terms.

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