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Please Simplify 2(7a+8)=86

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5

Explanation:

First you do whats in the parentheses

So it will look like this

14a+16=86 now you want to get 14a by itself so -16 from 86

then you get 14a=70

now divide 14a from 70 and your answer is 5

a=5

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