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It depends on the equation, of course. Often you can open parentheses, and often this isn't necessary. Often you can use more than one method. Here is one example:2(x + 1) = 14

Here, you can open the parentheses and write the equation as:

2x + 2 = 14

However, you can just as well divide both sides of the equation by 2, to get rid of the 2 on the left, resulting in:

x + 1 = 7

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