How do you simplify x-(2+4x)?

1 Answer
Mar 13, 2018

-3x-23x2

Explanation:

first we have to get rid of the parentheses.
because there's a negative sign in front, all the values inside the parentheses switch sign (you can also think of this as distributing a negative one)
x-2-4xx24x

Then, combine like terms
-3x-23x2