Firstly, we would distribute the 2 and get rid of the parenthesis by using distributive property, which is:
[tex]a(b+c)=ab+ac[/tex]
So, we have:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 2(x+4)=6 \\ 2x+8=6 \end{gathered}[/tex]
Second step would be to subtract 8 off both sides so we have variables to one side and numbers to another, thus we have:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 2x+8=6 \\ 2x=6-8 \\ 2x=-2 \end{gathered}[/tex]
