$a - 3 b$ = $-$ ( ___ )

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Solution

When any part of an expression is inserted within a pair of brackets with a negative sign before it, the sign of each term kept inside the brackets gets changed.

Hence $a - 3 b$ = $- (- a + 3 b)$

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