Add and Subtract Expressions

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What is the result of (6x + 3y + 4) – (8x + 9y)?

Back

-2x - 6y + 4

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Find the difference: (8 - u) - (5u + 1)

Back

-6u + 7

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What is 2x + x?

Back

3x

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Find the difference (2x + 5) − (x + 4).

Back

x + 1

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What is (2x + 5) - (6x + 3)?

Back

-4x + 2

Front

Define 'expression' in mathematics.

Back

A combination of numbers, variables, and operators (like + and -) that represents a value.

Front

What does it mean to 'add expressions'?

Back

To combine like terms from two or more expressions to simplify or find a total.

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What is a 'like term'?

Back

Terms that have the same variable raised to the same power.

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What is the process of 'subtracting expressions'?

Back

To remove the value of one expression from another, often involving combining like terms.

Front

What is the distributive property?

Back

a(b + c) = ab + ac; it allows you to multiply a single term by each term inside a parenthesis.