Simplifying Expressions

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What is simplifying expressions?

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Simplifying expressions involves combining like terms and reducing expressions to their simplest form.

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What are like terms?

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Like terms are terms that have the same variable raised to the same power. For example, 3x and 5x are like terms.

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What is the first step in simplifying an expression?

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The first step is to distribute any coefficients to terms inside parentheses.

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What is the perimeter of a rectangle with length 5x and width 3x?

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What does it mean to combine like terms?

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Combining like terms means adding or subtracting coefficients of like terms to simplify the expression.

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