Ms. Washington final

Combining like terms

Combining Like terms

​What Is A Like Term?

Like terms are the terms that contain the same variable, they are solved using operations and the distributive property.

Say you have you are at a baseball game and got food, and you got the items above. the equation for these would be W+H+C.

​W= water
H= hotdog
C= chips

How many of each item is there

From finding out how many items we have we can then make an equation and solve, remember to combine "LIKE TERMS" only. you cant add anything else if it doesn't have the same variable

Multiple Choice

Simplify combining like terms

6b-17a+5a

• 6b-12a
• 5a-17a
• 11b-17a
• -17a+11b

Multiple Choice

what do you do to combine like terms?

• subtract fractions

• multiply decimals

• add coefficients

• divide variables

Multiple Choice

Simplify combining like terms

8a-19b+2b+4a

• 12a-17b
• 14a-19b
• 6a-21b
• 10a-15b

Multiple Choice

Simplify combining like terms

-23a+17b+32a-12c+13b

• 9a-30b-12c
• 9a+30b-12c
• -23a+17b+32a-12c+13b
• 9a-30b+12c