Distribute a negative or subtraction across parentheses
Year 6 maths · Fieldbook Learning
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A minus sign in front of brackets changes the sign of every term inside. Expand first, then combine if you can.
- Expand: −(4a + 5)
- Expand: −2(3y − 5)
- Expand: −5(3m + 4)
- Expand: −4(3t − 1)
- Expand: −7(8a − 4)
- Expand: −8(9b + 8)
- Expand: −2(8t − 5)
- Expand: −3(2y − 1)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 18 − 8(2b − 5)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 3 − 2(9t − 6)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 14 − 5(p − 5)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): m − 9(9m − 6)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 18 − 11(7a + 8)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 10 − 8(3p + 6)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 16y − (4y + 7)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 3w − 9(9w + 3)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 37w − 14(12w − 9)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 10w − 11(17w + 18)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 2a − 14(12a − 10)
- Expand and simplify (letter term first, then number): 36x − 8(10x − 5)