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What is -2(3x+12y-5-17x-16y+4) simplified?

Answer 1

It would simplify out to exactly 28x+8y+2.

Answer 2

−2(3x+12y−5−17x−16y+4)

=(−2)(3x+12y+−5+−17x+−16y+4)

=(−2)(3x)+(−2)(12y)+(−2)(−5)+(−2)(−17x)+(−2)(−16y)+(−2)(4)

=−6x−24y+10+34x+32y−8

which then simplifies to

=28x+8y+2

Hope this helps^^