Why/How do we expand brackets, i dont understand (linear equations)

Tomas is making trail mix using granola and walnuts. he can spend a total of $12 on the ingredients. he buys 3 pounds of granola that costs $2.00 per pound. the walnuts cost $6 per pound. he uses the equation to represent the total cost, where x represents the number of pounds of granola and y represents the number of pounds of walnuts. he solves the equation for y, the number of pounds of walnuts he can buy. answer- b tomas added 6 to both sides of the equation instead of subtracting 6. just took the test

F(x) = x2 − 9, and g(x) = x − 3 f(x) = x2 − 4x + 3, and g(x) = x − 3 f(x) = x2 + 4x − 5, and g(x) = x − 1 f(x) = x2 − 16, and g(x) = x − 4 h(x) = x + 5 arrowright h(x) = x + 3 arrowright h(x) = x + 4 arrowright h(x) = x − 1 arrowright

Proving the parallelogram diagonal theoremgiven abcd is a parralelogam, diagnals ac and bd intersect at eprove ae is conruent to ce and be is congruent to de