How do you simplify $5y - (4x + 7y) - 2x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-05-12T21:54:22

$-6x-2y$

The 'minus' in front of the bracket is applied to everything inside those brackets.

Write as: $" "5y-4x-7y-2x$

Collecting like terms

$-4x-2x+5y-7y$

$-6x-2y$

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