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Combine like terms. What is a simpler form of the expression? -3(-4y + 3) + 7y
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Combine like terms. What is a simpler form of the expression?

-3(-4y + 3) + 7y

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The answer to this problem is 19y-9.
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19y-9 is a simpler form of this expression. You can use distributive property to get rigid the brackets (multiply -3 by -4y and 3) , then your expression looks like 12y-9+7y. You then combine like terms to get 19y-9.
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