How do you solve 6x2 plus x plus 2?

Answer 1

You mean 6 times 2 plus x plus 2? Well, do all the easy steps first, the is BEDMAS. If you don't know what it is. It's the order of doing operations:

Brackets then exponent then division AND multiplication then addition AND subtraction.

There is no brackets or exponents here, so we do 6 x 2 first

6 x 2 = 12 (We just have to accept to this cruel fact)

so it becomes

12 + x + 2

Addition is associative, at least over the integers, which is what these looks like. That is a + b = b + a for any a, b of choice. Or you can call it shuffle (signs carry, so 5 - 2 = -2 + 5 whatever -2 means)

so 12 + (+x) + (+2) = 12 + 2 + x, BEDMAS continues, we may do 12 + 2 = 14

so you get

14 + x.

What the heck is 14 + x? I don't know? You don't know? But who cares! This is pretty nice looking already. So it's simply 14 + x.