Question

How do you do a expression

Answer 1

1. get rid of your parenthesis 
2. in order to do so you must look inside of the parenthesis and check if you have any like terms if so combine them
3. next use the distribution property or otherwise known as the rainbow
4. if you have an exponent to the right of your parenthesis then use the exponent rule
5. combine like terms by adding coefficients
6. finally combine the constants