The mendoza family set out on a weekend road trip to washington, d.c. they started the trip with enough gasoline to drive for 6 hours. the trip took 4 hours and 37 minutes. in addition, they spent 75 minutes driving when they got lost. how many minutes worth of gasoline did the mendoza's have to spare, if any?

Step-by-step explanation:

Carey should combine 8x with 2x and all other terms as one term by applying distributive property

Solution:

Given that,

Carey solves the equation 4(2x – 1) + 5 = 3 + 2(x + 1) by applying the distributive property on both sides of the equation.

The result is 8x – 4 + 5 = 3 + 2x + 2.

Now, Carey then wants to combine like terms.

We have to find which are the terms Carey should combine?

If we observe clearly then there are two different types of terms, one with variables and others are numerical

Now let us make the like terms one side of “=”

Then, 8x – 2x = 3 + 2 + 4 – 5 ⇒ 6x = 4 ⇒ x =

Hence, carey should combine 8x with 2x and all other terms as one term