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Which expression is equivalent to -3x(2x-8)+4x

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Answer:

2x ( -3x + 14)

Explanation:

What is Distribution Property?

Distribution property is used in a format like a ( b + c ). To simplify these kinds of expressions, we multiply the outside term by each of the inside terms. So in this instance, a ( b + c ) is equal to ab + ac.

Let's put this in the expression

3x ( 2x - 8 ) + 4x

Let's use what we learned above, and multiply the outside term (-3x) by each of the inside terms.

-3x · 2x + (-3x) · (-8) +4x

Simplify by multiplication:

-6x² + 24x +4x

Finally, we add:

-6x² +28x

Now, to simplify further, we can look for terms that show up in numbers.

We can see that the variable x is present in each of the terms, so we can factor that out, removing it from the term as follows:

x ( -6x + 28)

We can look and see that 2 is also a common factor between the two terms, so we can take that out too.

2x ( -3x + 14)

This is the most simplified it can get.

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