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The document provides examples and practice problems for simplifying algebraic expressions by combining like terms. It explains that like terms are terms with the same variable and simplifying means writing an equivalent expression without like terms or parentheses. Examples are given showing how to use properties of operations to simplify expressions by combining like terms with the same variable. Practice problems then ask the reader to simplify expressions by combining like terms.

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3-7 - Reteach To Build Understanding

The document provides examples and practice problems for simplifying algebraic expressions by combining like terms. It explains that like terms are terms with the same variable and simplifying means writing an equivalent expression without like terms or parentheses. Examples are given showing how to use properties of operations to simplify expressions by combining like terms with the same variable. Practice problems then ask the reader to simplify expressions by combining like terms.

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Reteach to Build

Name Understanding
3-7

Like terms are terms that have the same variable. In the expression
3x - 2y + 5x, 3x and 5x are like terms.
To simplify an algebraic expression means to use properties of operations
to write an equivalent expression with no like terms and no parentheses.
To simplify the expression 5x + 2 + 3x - 1, combine the like terms 5x and
3x and then the numbers.
5x + 2 + 3x - 1
= 5x + 3x + 2 - 1 ← Commutative Property of Addition.
= (5 + 3)x + 2 - 1 ← Distributive Property.
= 8x + 2 - 1 ← Add.
= 8x + 1 ← Subtract.

1. Fill in the blanks to simplify the expression 3m2 + 3 + m2. Write the
property or operation used for each step.
3m2 + 3 + m2

= 3m2 + m2 + ← .

= 3m2 + m2 + ← Identity Property of Multiplication.

=( + )m2 + ← .

= + ← .

2. Simplify each expression.

6n + 3 + 2n

9q - 9 - q

2p + 34p + 6 - p - 312

2.25(14.3m + 6 + 2.7m)

On the Back!
3. Combine like terms to write an equivalent expression for
2x + x + x.

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