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What are like terms?

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What are like terms? Explain how the distributive property is used to combine like terms.

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Does the concept of "like terms" confuse you in algebra? When can we add x and other variables? This solution explains all, along with a discussion on how we can use the distributive property to prove why we can add like terms. Don't miss this if you want to understand like terms.

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Like terms are when the exponents on the variables are matched. It's easy to demonstrate with an example:

2x+3x. Since both of these is a coefficient and x, they are like terms, so we can add the together to get 5x

2x+x^2. Now we have x and ...

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