How do you simplify $3 * 2a$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-20T21:33:07

$6a$

In algebra, multiplication is really easy because you can multiply any values together without having like terms.:

Multiply the signs
Multiply the numbers
add the indices of like bases.

In this example we have $3 xx 2 xx a = 6a$

All done!

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