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One inch of board is left
if you subtract the two 3 inches pieces from the board
the further subtract the 24 inches from the three 8 inches pieces you get 31-30

<em><u>Solution:</u></em>
<em><u>Given expression is:</u></em>

We have to combine the like terms
From given expression,

By distributive property,
The distributive property lets you multiply a sum by multiplying each addend separately and then add the products.
a(b + c) = ab + bc
Therefore,
Solve for brackets using distributive property

Add 1/7 and 6/7

Thus the equivalent expression is found
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