Astone is an old unit of weight used in ireland and england to measure potatoes. a stone is 14 pounds and 80 stones make up half of a long ton .how many pounds is half of a long ton?

Answerthe simplified expression isexplanationthe given expression is,let us deal with the bracket first.the two negatives in the parenthesis will become positive.the expression now becomes,we now expand the parenthesis to get,we group like terms to obtain,this simplifies to,