Remove the brackets and simplify the following 5(a+2)+4(a+1)?

1 Answer
May 1, 2018

#9a + 14#

Explanation:

To remove the brackets and simplify, we use the distributive property shown here:
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Following this image, our expression would expand to:
#(5 * a) + (5 * 2) + (4 * a) + (4 * 1)#

Simplify:
#5a + 10 + 4a + 4#

#9a + 14#

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