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Math Elementary Algebra: Drill 2, Problem 1. Simplify the expression.
- Elementary Algebra / Polynomial basic operations
- Elementary Algebra / Simplifying expressions
- Product Type / ACT Math
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Elementary Algebra / Understanding algebraic operations
Transcript
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Simplify: Quantity 5x plus 3xy plus 4y plus the quantity 4x minus 2xy minus 2y.
- 00:16
And here are the potential answers... oh what a mess.
- 00:21
OK so what is this question asking?
- 00:24
Well, we really just have to combine like terms.
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- 00:27
Just don't tell the terms they... like each other. We don't want to be accused of betraying
- 00:32
confidences.
- 00:33
Since there's no multiplying or division at play here, we can really just ignore the
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parentheses...
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...and add everything that goes together... together.
- 00:42
5x and 4x give us 9x... 3xy MINUS 2xy gives us xy... and 4y MINUS 2y gives us 2y.
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So... 9x plus xy plus 2y...
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...and the answer is E.
- 00:57
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