SOLUTION: please help me solve this equation:(p+p^3+2p^2)-(7p+6p^2-6p^3)

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Question 892299: please help me solve this equation:(p+p^3+2p^2)-(7p+6p^2-6p^3)
Answer by KMST(5328) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are expected to rearrange the terms and simplify by "collecting like terms":

If asked to "show your work", I would write


In many baby steps:


NOTE:
That is not an equation.
An EQUAtion has an EQUAl sign, like 3x%2B2=8 or 3x%2B2y=7 .