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When adding or subtracting expressions, how do you identify the like terms?

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Solution explains how to distinguish between like and unlike terms to simplify algebraic expressions. Answer is typed in Word document in more than 300 words.

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A number or a combination of the numbers (including variable part) connected by the symbols of operation +, -, etc is called an algebraic expression. The several parts of an expressions connected by signs + and - are called terms of expressions. If we are given expression like 2x+3y, 2x and 3y are terms of expressions.

Every term has generally two parts namely ...

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