PLEASE HELP Your friend asks you to preform the following steps. pick any number except 0. Subtract 5 from your number. multiply the result by 2. Divide the result by 4. Your friend says your original number was “”. Explain how your friend knew your original number.

What are the answer choices?

Look, when you want to do something like put it like x^2. x2 could mean x² or x₂. so to clear confusion, know the notation. to find the product multiply the x's and you get -8x and the y's and you get 6y. since it's all being multiplied it is just -8x6y, or answer a. although the better answer is -48xy(combining -8 and 6) because you should multiply constants whenever you can.