SOLUTION: please help me solve this equation -8 + 5 (g + 2) + -2

Question 559664: please help me solve this equation -8 + 5 (g + 2) + -2
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First, this is not an equation, it's an expression and you can't "solve" an expression.
Did you want to simplify this expression?
-8+5(g+2)+(-2) First, apply the distributive property to the middle term.
-8+5g+10+(-2) Now combine like-terms.
-8+10-2+5g simplify.
0+5g
The answer is 5g.
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