Simplifying Variables and Like Terms with Distributive Properties

_______________ have exactly the same variables and the same exponents.

• Variables

• Like Terms

• Coefficients

• Rational Numbers

Combine the like terms in the expression: 4t - 9 + 3t

• 7t - 9

• 43t - 9

• There are no like terms

Combine the like terms in the expression:

12x + 2 + 3x

• 9x + 2

• 15x + 2

• There are no like terms

• 13x

Simplify the expression:

3x² - x + 7 + 5x + 2 - 2x²

• x² + 4x + 9

• 5x² + 9

• 15

• 15x

-9n + 12n + 7

• 28n

• 10n

• 21n + 7

• 3n + 7

8y + 5 - 2y

• 6y + 5

• 11y

• 10y + 5

• 15y

Simplify the following expression:
3 + 5x + 8 - 2x

• -3x² - 11

• 3x² + 11

• 11 - 3x

• 11 + 3x

Simplify the Expression:

7x² - 3a +20 - 4x² + 2a

• 11x² - a + 20

• 3x² - a + 20

• 2a + 20

• 3x² - a

Simplify by combining like terms:
4x² - 3x + 11 -2x

• 4x² - 5x + 11

• 11x + 11

• 16x² - 5x + 11

• 10x²

6w - 12 - w + 11

• 5w - 1

• 5w + 1

• 7w - 1

• 7w + 1