How do you simplify #3(2x -4) - 2(5x - 1)#?

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-10T06:58:00

Expand the brackets

#6x-12-10x+2#

Collect like terms

#-4x-10#

Answer 2 · 2018-08-12T03:20:01

#-4x-10#

We can distribute the #3# and the #-2# to their respective terms. Here, we are just multiplying, and we get

#6x-12-10x+2#

Next, we can combine our like terms to get

#-4x-10#

Hope this helps!