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Algebra.Com's Answer #130902 by EMStelley(208) $\"\"$ $\"About$

You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I don't think you mean how to \"solve\" since this is not set equal to anything. I think you meant \"simplify\". So I will try that for you. The first thing I would do is to distribute through the minus signs so that you can drop the parentheses. So\r
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