document.write( "Question 71231: I am have a very hard time figuring out problems in my math class and had about 5 people try to help me. I am fine in math tell i get to a question like this:-5(3x-2y)-(x+6Y). Can some one out there explain this to me like I am a total dumb person or a little baby because that is what it is going to take. It say combane like terms.
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-5(3x-2y)-(x+6Y)\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "We will first get rid of the parens by applying the distributive law which states that a(b+c)=ab+ac and we get:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Next, we will collect like terms which means that we will add x's together, the y's together and the numbers together (and there are no numbers) and now we have:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "We will now apply the distributive law again (which means that we factor out a -4) and we get:\r
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