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brennabunny
Aug 31, 2010, 04:17 PM
What is the answer? And please show work

RandomGuy12
Aug 31, 2010, 04:56 PM
AskMeHelpDesk has a strong policy on simply giving answers to (probably) homework questions, but we can help.

First you will use the distributive property:eek:. This means when a number is multiplied by something in parenthesis, you multiply the outside number with each number or variable and combine the answers with the operations inside the parenthesis.
Ex. 3(2+x)
3(2+x): 3*2=6
3(2+x): 3*x=3x
3(2+x)=6+3x

Next you will add like terms.
Ex. 2+5x+3+3x=(2+3)+(5x+3x)=5+8x

And then you'll have your answer :D