Can you combine like terms?

19s+3(3s-12)

3 Answers
Apr 8, 2018

You can, start off with 19s+3(3s-12)

19s+9s-36

28s-36

Apr 8, 2018

28s-36

Explanation:

Use the distributive property to get rid of the parentheses first:

19s+3(3s-12)

19s+3*3s-12*3

19s+9s-36 rarr 19s and 9s can be combined to form one coefficient and a variable

28s-36

Jul 24, 2018

28s-36

Explanation:

Let's first distribute the 3 to the parenthesis to get

19s+9s-36

We see we have two s terms, so we can combine them to get

28s-36

Hope this helps!