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Question 303687: Hello,
If someone could help me solve for this problem from, the Book: Intermediate Algebra by Mark Dugopolski, I would greatly appreciate it.
Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses.
- 3(6 - p)
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- 3(6 - p)
= (-3*6)+(-3*-p)
= -18 + 3p
= 3p - 18