Question

What is the value of y in the equation 2(2y − 16) = 0?

Answer 1

2(2y − 16) = 0 start
2y−16=0 divide both sides by 2
2y=16 add 16 to both sides
y=8 divide by 7

your answer is y=8

Answer 2

We first have to distribute the outside 2. That means we have to multiply the numbers in the parentheses by the outside 2.
2*2y is 4y and 2*16 is 32.
So now we have 4y-32=0
Now we have to combine like terms, basically.
So we do inverse operation, the opposite operation. So let's add 32 to the 0. That's obviously 32.
So 4y=32. We do inverse operation again. So we divide 32/4. We get 8.
And 8 is our answer. 8=y

Hope I helped :)