How do you simplify #5(b+4)-6b#?
1 Answer
Apr 15, 2016
-b+20
Explanation:
The distributive property is this:
a(b+c) = ab + ac
Applying this to the question we get:
5(b+4)-6b = 5b+20-6b
= -b + 20 (or 20-b either is correct)