How do you simplify $5(b+4)-6b$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-15T10:17:04

-b+20

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)

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