Question

Are the following equations equal?

Answer 1

\[-\frac{ 1 }{ 3 }(7x ^{6}+2)\]
and
\[-\frac{ 7 }{ 3 }x ^{6}-\frac{ 2 }{ 3 }\]

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

Certainly appears as they are the same, you have distributed the -1/3 that was outside the parenthesis.

Answer 4

thanks