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How do find you equivelant expressions?

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You'll have to start off by finding the variables. Ex:

3(x + 3) - 2(x + 3)

As you can see here, the two similar variables are x. By using the distributive property, you will get this:

3x + 9 - 2x + 6

Next, you'll want to subtract the two variables, since 2x has a - in front of it:

1x + 9 + 6

or

x + 9 + 6

Then, you want to add the two numbers without the variable:

x + 15

Your answer is x + 15.
Hopefully that helped! :)
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