SOLUTION: This is from the Compass sample test Algebra Placement Polynomials 6. What is the sum of the polynomials 3a^2b+2a^2b^2 and -ab^2+a^2b^2? Explain in detail please.

Question 101359: This is from the Compass sample test
Algebra Placement
Polynomials
6. What is the sum of the polynomials 3a^2b+2a^2b^2 and -ab^2+a^2b^2?
Explain in detail please.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Start with the given expression. This is the sum of the two polynomials

Group like terms. These are terms with the same variables and exponents of those variables

Combine like terms
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