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

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-10T06:58:00

Expand the brackets

$6x-12-10x+2$

Collect like terms

$-4x-10$

Answer 2 · 2018-08-12T03:20:01

$-4x-10$

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!

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