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  • 17-12-2018
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Why do you first combine like terms and then use the distributive property to solve 8(5x+9x+6)=160

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edyg144 edyg144
  • 18-12-2018
because thats whats in the parentheses.

so you have

8(14x+6)=160
__________
8

14x+6= 20
-6. -6
14x=14
__. __
14. 14
x=1

you can just divide by 8
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