Question

like terms and distributive propertysimplify each expression by using the distributive property and by combining like terms

Answer 1

Given the expression:

`(1)/(2)(12x-8)-(1)/(3)(18x-12)`

using the distributive property we get the following:

`\begin{gathered} (1)/(2)(12x-8)-(1)/(3)(18x-12)+ \\ (1)/(2)(12x)+(1)/(2)(-8)-(1)/(3)(18x)-(1)/(3)(-12)= \\ 6x-4-6x+4=0 \end{gathered}`

therefore, the simplified expression is 0