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Simplify the following expression: '5x - 8 + 3y + 10x - 8y'

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Answer:

-5x-8-11y

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Because you shift 10x to -10x and then 5x-10x = -5x

You leave the -8 the same

You do 3y to -3y and then do -3y -8y = -11y

Hence altogether you get, -5x -8 -11y

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