SOLUTION: 8. Combine like terms. {{{6a^2 + 4a + 5 + 3a^2 + 7a - 2}}}

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Question 27053: 8.
Combine like terms.


Answer by mbarugel(146)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In this case, a group of "like" terms are terms that have 'a' to the power of a given number, or don't have 'a' at all.
For example, all terms that have are "like" terms.
So first let's reorder the terms to group first all the ones that have , then all the ones that have , and finally, the ones that don't have at all:

Using common factor:


So that's the result after combining like terms.

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