Denise makes three times as many chocolate cupcakes as vanilla. She makes three dozen strawberry cupcakes. Total cupcakes are 132, how many are chocolate?

answer: slight chance that it will happen

step-by-step explanation:

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: