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terms whose variables are the same.
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What does like terms mean?
Like terms are terms with the same variable to the same power. Examples: 2y and 3y are like terms. 2y and 2z are not like terms 4y squared and 3y squared are like terms 4y squared and 3y are not like terms
If terms are not like terms then they are?
Unlike terms.
What are terms that have the same variable and power?
Like terms
Is x and y like terms?
No. For purposes of combining "like terms", you need terms that have exactly the same variables, with the same exponents (if there are any).
How do you simplify by combining like terms?
You add (or subtract) like terms. This will reduce the number of terms in the expression and that is the extent of simplification that you can achieve using this process.
What are interesting religious facts?
Religious facts is a contradiction in terms. An oxymoron. (And aptly named.)
What is recorded facts which effects nature of financial statements?
in accounting all facts are not recorded only those facts or transactions are recorded which can be represented in terms of money and which can not be recorded fall beyond the scope of accounting thus in accounting the recorded facts are those which can be presented in monetary terms.
What are facts about reconstruction?
Leaders in the North disagreed about the terms of Reconstruction.
What does like terms mean?
Like terms are terms with the same variable to the same power. Examples: 2y and 3y are like terms. 2y and 2z are not like terms 4y squared and 3y squared are like terms 4y squared and 3y are not like terms
What is the definition for like terms?
like terms - are terms that have identical variable parts and constant terms
Like terms are either or they are terms with the same that have the same?
Like terms are terms that have the same combination of variables.
If terms are not like terms then they are?
Unlike terms.
Are these terms like or unlike24cd, 9cd?
Like terms
What can terms be called like terms?
When the independent variable is of the same degree. Ex. 3x and -5x are like terms. 6 and 9 are like terms. 7x^2 and 9x^3 are NOT like terms.
In order for terms to be like terms they must have?
"Like terms" are terms whose variables (and their exponents such as the 2 in x2) are the same. In other words, terms that are "like" each other.
What does a commutative property have to do with combining like terms?
When you have an expression consisting of several terms added together, and they are not all like terms, and there are like terms separated by unlike terms, you use the commutative law of addition to rearrange the terms so that the like terms are next to each other.
Is 12x and 14y like terms?
No, 12x and 14y are not like terms. In order to be like terms, they must have the same variables and same exponents. Examples of like terms: 12x and 15x 14x2 and 16x2 Not like terms: 14x and 18y 12x and 16x3
