What were german reparations supposed to accomplish

Germany was required to pay reparations after the Treaty of Versailles. This caused Germany to have to pay a good sum of the things that were severely damaged during World War I. The amount they were supposed to pay was actually around 33 billion dollars but I believe this was greatly reduced afterwards.

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:

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