Simplifying Expressions

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What is simplifying expressions?

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Simplifying expressions involves combining like terms and performing operations to make an expression easier to understand or work with.

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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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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 parentheses.

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Simplify: 5(6x + 3)

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30x + 15

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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.

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Simplify: 6n + 12

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6n + 12 can be simplified to 5n + 9 + n + 3.

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What is the result of adding 45e + 12 + 6e - 8?

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The result is 51e + 4.

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Simplify: 7z - 4 + 5z + 2

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The simplified expression is 12z - 6.

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What is the equivalent expression for 3b?

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3b is equivalent to b + b + b.

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What is a coefficient in an expression?

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A coefficient is a numerical factor in a term. For example, in 4x, 4 is the coefficient.