Which best describes a change that mahayana ideas made to buddhism?
a. encouragement of living moderate lives
b. adherence to eight moral elements of life
c. belief in a western-style concept of heaven
d. belief that people can perfect their souls over time

either b) they were often feared and despised by other native cultures. or

c) their obsession allowed them to coexist with many other native cultures because of their peaceful nature.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: