Simplify 22 - 5 (2x + 4)

22 - 5 (2x + 4)

You want to first open up the parenthesis, by multiplying five by all of the items inside of the parenthesis.

Therefore, it's:

22 - 10x + 20

And then you can move the numbers to simplify it, keeping the symbol before it:

22 + 20 - 10x

And then solve as much as you can:

42 - 10x

And that's how you simplify it.

-10x + 2

U do the parentheses first then add like terms and ur answer