Enter your answer and show all the steps that you use to solve this problem in the space provided. Combine like terms. What is a simpler form of the expression?

Question

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

Answer 1

To simplify the expression -3(-4y+3)+7y, we can start by distributing the -3 to the terms inside the parentheses:

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

This simplifies to:

12y - 9 + 7y

Next, we can combine the like terms by adding the coefficients of the y terms:

12y + 7y - 9

This can be further simplified by combining the y terms:

19y - 9

So, the simplified form of the expression -3(-4y+3)+7y is 19y - 9.