How do you simplify 2[3(3x +1)+ 2( 2x +5)] + 3[1+ 4(x+2)+5x]?

1 Answer
Oct 3, 2016

53x+53

Explanation:

Notice that there are 2 terms.
Start my removing the brackets within each term using the distributive law

color(red)(2[3(3x +1)+ 2( 2x +5)] )+ color(blue)(3([1+ 4(x+2)+5x]

=color(red)(2[9x +3+ 4x +10)] + color(blue)(3[1+ 4x+8+5x]" "larrsimplify

=color(red)(2[13x +13)] + color(blue)(3[9x+9])" "larrremove brackets

=26x+26 +27x+27" "larr simplify

=53x +53