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  • 18-12-2018
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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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itmye84 itmye84
  • 18-12-2018

You are following PEMDAS:  (this is the order you use to solve a problem)

Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction


So you first simplify inside the parentheses, then you distribute/multiply 8 into the simplified values in the parentheses.


Also it would be easier to work with if you combined the like terms/simplified, because you still have to add them anyways if you didn't combine them earlier

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