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-32-8m=-4(2m+8)

-4(y-2)=2(-2+7)

Can someone please solve these for me

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I'd prefer to see you do as much as you can towards solving these problems yourself before asking for help.

-32-8m=-4(2m+8) becomes -32-8m=-8m-32 through multiplication.

When you have an outcome like this, that is, an equation that is true for all values of m, then the problem has infinitely many solutions.



-4(y-2)=2(-2+7)
Multiply out
-4(y-2) and then multiply out 2(-2+7). You should obtain:

-4y + 8 = -4 + 14. Note that you could evaluate 2(-2+7) by doing the work inside parentheses first, obtaining 5, and then by mult. this result by 2, obtaining 10.

Then -4y + 8 = 10. Subtracting 8 from both sides, -4y = 2, and y = -1/2
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