Math 6 Topic 3 End Topic Vocabulary

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What is an equivalent expression?

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Expressions that always have the same value.

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What is a coefficient in an expression?

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The number part of a term that contains a variable.

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What does it mean to simplify an expression?

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Combine the like terms of an expression.

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What does substitution mean in algebra?

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Replace a variable with a number to evaluate an algebraic expression.

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What is the definition of a coefficient?

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The number part of a term that contains a variable.

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What are like terms?

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Terms that have identical variable parts.

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What is a variable?

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A letter that represents an unknown value.

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What is an algebraic expression?

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An expression that contains numbers, variables, and operations.

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What does it mean to evaluate an expression?

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To replace variables with numbers and perform the operations.

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What is a constant?

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A number on its own, or sometimes a letter to stand for a fixed number.