The number multiplied by a variable in a term.
What is Coefficient?
Identify the coefficient of 7x
What is 7/
Evaluate 5 + 3(2)
11
a+b=b+a
Communicative property
solve
x+5=12
x=7
A letter or symbol used to represent an unknow number
What is a variable?
Simplify 3x + 5x
8x
evaluate 4 more than 18 divided by 3
10
5(x+3) = 5x+15
Distributive property
solve
x-8=15
x=23
A number by itself, without a variable
What is a Constant?
Simplify 4x + 7 - 2x + 3
2x+10
evaluate 23+5(2)
18
7+0=7
4x=28
x=7
Terms that have the same variables raised to the same powers
What are like terms?
Evaluate 3x+5 when x = 4
17
Evaluate 3[4+2(5)]
42
(4+5)+7=4+(5+7)
Associative property of addition
solve 2x +6 =18
x = 6
A mathematical phrase containing numbers, variables, and operations but no equal sign.
What is an expression?
Simplify 2(3x+4) - 5x
x+8
23+4(6-2)/2
16
if an operation always produces and element of the same set
Closure
3(x - 4) + 2 = 17
x = 9