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I NEED HELP PLZZZ Josh simplified 4x - 8x / 2 and said the answer was -2x. What was Josh's error? What should his answer have been?\
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Josh simplified 4x - 8x / 2 and said the answer was -2x. What was Josh's error? What should his answer have been?\

User SlappyTheFish
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Hello there,

This is a trick question Josh did not have an error. If you have 4x-8x in the numerator that becomes a -4x/2.
So then -4x/2= -2x
Josh was not wrong.

I hope this helped!
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