How do you simplify #3(2x -4) - 2(5x - 1)#?

2 Answers
Aug 10, 2018

Expand the brackets

#6x-12-10x+2#

Collect like terms

#-4x-10#

Aug 12, 2018

#-4x-10#

Explanation:

We can distribute the #3# and the #-2# to their respective terms. Here, we are just multiplying, and we get

#6x-12-10x+2#

Next, we can combine our like terms to get

#-4x-10#

Hope this helps!