How do you simplify $(-4x)/12 ( 121x+22)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-12T12:10:48

By arranging the equation

$(-4x)/12 times (121x+22)$

$=(-4x)/(4times3)times(121x+22)$

$-x/3times(121x+22)$

$=(-121x^2-22x)/3$

Your answer is

$=(-121x^2-22x)/3$

Answer 2 · 2018-04-12T12:13:31

$-(11x(11x+2))/3$

Firstly we can see that $-(4x)/12$ ( $larr$ we can put the negative sign like that) can be simplified.

$-cancel(4x)/cancel12$ (divide them both with 4 because it's common to both numbers) turns into $-x/3$

Now we have $-x/3 (121x +22)$

The next thing we do is multiply $x$ with $(121x +22)$ , and we get:

$(x(121x+22))/3$

We can see that $color(blue) ((121x+22))$ can be factored.

Finally we get:

$-(11x(11x+2))/3$ as our final answer.

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