Question 144704
The 'Simplifier' is kind of whacked, and gives you a misleading result (whether you enter it as {{{-3(5-y)+2^4=18y}}} or {{{-3(-y+5)+2^4=18y}}}).  You can follow the process in the simplifier down to just before it says that {{{0=0}}}.


You get: {{{-15y+1=0}}}.  From here you can say {{{-15y=-1}}} and then {{{y=1/15}}}.  I would leave the answer in this form rather than the ugly repeating decimal the solver provides.