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Solve: Find a definite answer to X or Y or whatever.
Evaluate: Find out a definite answer to the equation.
Simplify: No definite answer.
To evaluate usually implies plugging in the values for the variables.
i.e. Evaluate 3x²+2 when x=5. The value of the expression (or its evaluation) is 77 ■
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CoachWell, honey, "solve" is like finding the solution to a problem, like figuring out the value of x in an equation. "Evaluate" is just plugging in numbers to see what the expression equals. And "simplify" is making things easier by combining like terms or getting rid of unnecessary stuff. So, in a nutshell, solving is finding the answer, evaluating is crunching numbers, and simplifying is tidying up the math mess.
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Explain the difference between the directions solve evaluate and simplify?
To solve would be to rewrite the equation in terms of the variable in the equation. For example, solve: 3x-2=7. You would solve for the variable x; e.g. 3x=9 and x=3. To evaluate, you would be given an equation with a variable or variables. You would need to be given a value for the variable(s) to substitute into the equation. For example evaluate the equation for x=3; equation is x2+1. Substitute 3 in for x; or 32+1=10. To simplify, reduce the equation to its simplest form. This will involve operations such as: factoring, adding, subtracting, dividing, canceling terms, and so forth. For example simplify the equation: 3x3/9x2. The 3/9 is simplified to 1/3 and x3/x2 is simplified to x. So the original equation simplified is: 1/3 times x or (1/3)x or x/3.Which is the right answer for most of you who does not know.
What is a simplify equation?
To simplify an equation is to combine like terms, but you do not solve it for example: simplify 3X+4-X-6 2X-2
Evaluate 9 to the second power?
evaluate means the same thing as solve in most math terms so9^2= 81
Can you solve for a variable in an expression?
No, you can only simplify an expression. To solve for a variable, it must be in an equation.
How do you solve this equation- 3w 419-2w?
That's not an equation. It need a = sign before you can solve it. However you can simplify it by combining like factors
