Simplifying Expressions

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What is simplifying expressions?

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Simplifying expressions involves combining like terms and performing operations to reduce an expression to its simplest form.

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What are like terms?

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Like terms are terms that have the same variable raised to the same power. For example, 3x and 5x are like terms.

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Simplify: 6x + 3(-2 - x) - 4

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3x - 10

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Simplify: 4a + 9 + a

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5a + 9

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Simplify: 6b + 7b - 10

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13b - 10

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Simplify the expression: 6 + 2(7x - 3)

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14x

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What is the simplified form of this expression: 3x + 4 + 5x + 3?

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8x + 7

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What is the distributive property?

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The distributive property states that a(b + c) = ab + ac. It allows you to multiply a single term by each term inside a parenthesis.

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Simplify: 2(3x + 4) + 5x

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11x + 8

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What does it mean to combine like terms?

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Combining like terms means to add or subtract coefficients of terms that have the same variable.