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Use the distributive property to eliminate parentheses and simplify the following expression enter your entire simplified expression -12-(u+10)

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Answer:

-u-22

Explanation:

The factor of -1 in front of parentheses gets applied to each of the terms inside the parentheses:

-12 -u -10

The constants can be combined to give ...

-u -22

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