Question

Combine like terms. What is a simpler form of the expression?

-3(-4y + 3) + 7y

Answer 1

19y-9 is a simpler form of this expression. You can use distributive property to get rigid the brackets (multiply -3 by -4y and 3) , then your expression looks like 12y-9+7y. You then combine like terms to get 19y-9.

Answer 2

The answer to this problem is 19y-9.