Combining Like Terms and Square Roots

Terms that you can combine because they have the same variables raised to the same exponents are called:

• square roots

• like terms

• inverse operations

• a proportion

Combine the following like terms:

-10y - 4y

Combine the following like terms:

3x + 6x

Simplify  2x + 1 + 7x 

• 10x

• 10

• 9x + 1

• 9 + 1x

Simplify: 10d - 3d + 2e + 4d

• 11d + 2e

• 17d + 2e

• 19de

• Can't be simplified

Simplify: 4q + 4t + 3q + t

• 12tq

• 3q + 4t

• 7q + 5t

• Can't be simplified

Simplify: 4k + 6k - 3k + 3s - s

• 13k + 3s

• 7k + 2s

• 7k + 4s

• Can't be simplified

Simplify: 10w + 3d + 3w + d

• 13w + 4d

• 17wd

• 13w + 3d

• Can't be simplified

Simplify: 12b + 4b² - 10b

• 4b² + 2b

• 4b² + 22b

• 6b²

• Can't be simplified

Simplify: m + m + m + m

• 4m

• m⁴

• m

• Can't be simplified