document.write( "Question 112801: how do you do albrega in expressions and simplying \n" ); document.write( "
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Example 1: Simplify by combining like terms. \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Are there any like terms that we can combine?
\n" ); document.write( "It looks like it. Both terms have the same variable part, a. \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "7a-10a
\n" ); document.write( "(7-10)a
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Simplify 5x^2+7x-2x^2-10x+5
\n" ); document.write( "It looks like we have two terms that have an x squared that we can combine and we have two terms that have an x that we can combine. The poor 5 does not have anything it can combine with so it will have to stay 5.
\n" ); document.write( "Grouping like terms together and combining them we get:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "5x^2+7x-2x^2-10x+5
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