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Are 3 (4x-2) and 12x-2 equivalent
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Are 3 (4x-2) and 12x-2 equivalent

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no.............

3(4x-2) is using the distributive property, and completely distributed and simplified equals 12x-6 this is obviously not equivalent to 12x-2
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