Question

How do you simplify `(8 - b)(-3) + 6b + 12 - 10b`?

Answer 1

They wrote this really weird but I guess that's math people for ya. I got `-12-b` explanation below.

Explanation:

So the first step is to distribute the `-3` to the `(8-b)` and don't forget that a negative times a negative equals a positive so `-3 * -b=3b`
Once you do that you should get `-24+3b+6b +12-10b`
After you solve for that it's basic combining of like terms: `-12+9b-10b`
And finally you get `-12-b`

Answer 2

`-b-12`

Explanation:

First, multiply out the `(8−b)(−3)` term like this: `-3*8+(-3)*-b`, which results in `-24+3b`

The whole expression becomes: `-24+3b+6b+12-10b`.

Then combine like terms (add all the b's together and add all the constants together): `(3+6-10)b+(-24+12)`, which equals `-b-12`.