How do you simplify $-16+ 12z + 5m - 2z - 3m + 5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-02-09T12:31:14

$+2m+10z-11$

This is just one way. You should build up to doing it all on 1 line.

Put all the positives on one line and the negatives in another that is underneath.

$+5m+12z+color(white)("1")5$
$ul(-3m-color(white)("1")2z-16 larr" Add")$
$+2m+10z-11$

How do you simplify -16+ 12z + 5m - 2z - 3m + 5-16+ 12z + 5m - 2z - 3m + 5?