well all of your a^ have to go togather and your 3 and 9 have to go togather sense there is no letter in front then your 2b has to work by its self but sense it is in ( ) you have to muliply and then you can add the letters togathr 9-3 =6 then your 6 answer and your 3a go togather adding of course 3 and 6 get you back to 9 then take your a^2 times it by the a^2= a^4 then you take the 2b sense there is a mines in that it is a negative 2b so 9 times 4a times 2 b sense you can times different letters you would get 9times 8ab as your answer