Question

How do you solve `6m - 4m = - 4( 4- 3m ) - 2( 2m - 8)`?

Answer 1

No solutions

Explanation:

Let's combine like terms on the left, and use the distributive property on the right. We now have

`2m=-16+12m-4m+16`

We can combine like terms on the right to get

`2m=8m`

We already see that this equation has no solutions...two times something cannot be equal to eight times that same something.

Hope this helps!