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It depends on the particular equation, of course.
You can use several tricks, including eliminating things outside the parentheses, and using the distributive property.
Here is one example:
2(x+3) = 10
Divide both sides by 2:
x + 3 = 5. (The remainder should be easy to solve.
Another soution, using the distributive property:
2(x+3) = 10
2x + 6 = 10
Again, I am assuming you know how to solve equations WITHOUT parentheses, so I won't give the full solution here.
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