You can put this solution on YOUR website! I am not sure if you meant or so I will work on both of them.
I am also not sure what your book (or teacher) means by "simplify" so I will work toward expressions that seem simpler to me, and may or may not be more useful, depending on circumstances.
I suspect the problem and the expected answer is this: (taking out as a common factor)
We can work from there to equivalent expressions that could also be the intended answer:
To me, all of those expressions seem simpler than the original one.
You could go directly to the last one by "performing indicated operations."
If the problem was not that, maybe this will help: (taking out as a common factor)
We can work from there to equivalent expressions that could also be the intended answer:
For this proble, you could go directly to the last expression by "performing indicated operations."
