Simplifying Polynomials Lesson

What is a like term?

• terms that share a common variable

• terms that share a common variable and exponent

• terms that share a common coefficient

• terms that share a common exponent

What does the expression look like after you use the distributive property?

What are the like terms in this expression?

• -15 and 10

What is the first step in simplifying this problem?

• Combine like terms

• Subtract the variables

• Add the constants

• Distributive Property

What is the simplified expression?

What number should be distributed?

What is the simplified expression?