How do you simplify $-6(2u - 1)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-18T22:02:53

$-12u +6$

The terms in the bracket are not like terms, so we can't do the bracket first!

However we can use the distributive law and multiply the neg 6 by each term inside the bracket:

$-6(2u -1)$

$-12u +6$

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