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All right.
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In this question, we're given the expression 2t minus 5 minus parentheses 3t minus 6.
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And we're asked to simplify this.
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Now, with the order of operations, we have to be somewhat careful because what we need to do is make sure that this negative gets distributed to this whole.
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Value, not just part of the value.
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Kind of like a negative 4 is not the same as a negative 2 and a positive 2.
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And so similarly, we can't only have the negative 3t be the negative part.
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So because this is saying negative of this whole value is what those parentheses mean.
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So how we do that is we do what's called the distributive property, meaning we apply this negative to the 3t.
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And we also apply it to the six.
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So in other words, we apply this to every term in the parentheses...