How do you simplify this?
-5y - 12 + -2(y + 6)
-5y - 12 + -2(y + 6)
= -5y - 12 - 2y - 12 {used distributive property with -2}
= -7y - 24 {combined like terms}
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= -7y - 24 {combined like terms}
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