Text Formatting ⇒ Alignment problem

[coachbennett1981]

Good morning, I have come across a problem. Another teacher gave the following code to me:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
\begin{document}
\[
	\begin{aligned}
-5 + 3x + 2(5x - 3)&\\ \text{Distribute the $2$ to the $5x$ and the $3$}
&= -5 + 3x + 2(5x) - 2(3)\\ \text{Multiply $2(5x)$ and $-2(3)$}
&= -5 + 3x + 10x - 6\\ \text{Combine like terms}
&= -11 + 13x\\
&= 13x - 11\\
\end{aligned}
\]

\end{document}

I am trying to put the text of the right side of the equations and have the equations be aligned at the equals sign and the text be to the right and evenly spaced and also lined up. Is there a nice way to do this?

Thanks

Nick

[Montag]

Hi Nick,
you should drop the aligned-environment and the "\[", use the align*-evironment instead and put one ampersand before the equal sign and one ampersand before \text{Distribute the $...

Does that work for you?

[coachbennett1981]

Works well.. Thanks man.. I appreciate it