What is -6(m+2)=m-2

Answer 1

Hi Elijah,

First, you'd want to distribute the (-6) to each term in the parentheses. That would give you:

(-6)xm + (-6)x2=m-2

Now that we have distributed the -6 to each term, let's simplify:

-6m - 12 = m-2

Then, we want to move all the unknowns (=m) to one side, and all the other values (=numbers) to the other side. Remember that in order to do so, the sign (+ or -) of each term changes as they pass the equal sign in order to go to the other side.

That would give us:

-12 +2 = m+6m

That is:

-10 = 7m

then, we divide both sides by m's coefficient to solve for m.

That would give us:

(-10/7) = m ⇒ m ≈ -1.4286