You can put this solution on YOUR website! all that you can do on this one if this is all of the problem is combine like terms.
7x - 2 + 3x - 9 --> rewrite first with all addition. Remember that subtracting a positive is the same as adding a negative.
7x + (- 2) + 3x + ( - 9)
Rearrange with like terms together
(7x + 3x) + (( -2) + (-9))
10x + -11 Combine the likes terms
10x - 11 Rewrite in simplest form. adding a negative is
the same as subtracting a
positive.