SOLUTION: why don't you work the parenthesis first in simplifying 1/3(12x-3)?

Question 1050102: why don't you work the parenthesis first in simplifying 1/3(12x-3)?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Inside the parentheses, THE EXPRESSION is already in its simplest form, the 'sum' of two terms. One term is of x and the other is a plain constant. Working inside the parentheses is finished. Next is to use Distributive Property.

You could factorize the expression inside the parentheses:

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