Combining Like Terms

Combining like terms Easy

100

Simplify by combining like terms.

a + a

What is 2a?

200

Simplify by combining like terms.

4w - 2w

What is 2w?

300

Simplify by combining like terms.

4g + 3 - g

What is 3g + 3?

400

6 + 7k + 1 

7 + 7k

500

c + 3c

What is 4c

True/False

100

True or False:

4d + 1 + 6d = 11d

What is False

200

True or False:

7x - 5 + x = 8x+5 

What is False

300

True or False: 3xyz and 5xyz  are like terms.

True

400

True or false.  3y²+2y is 5y

False. They are NOT like terms.

500

True or False:

6 + 15w - w + 9 = 29w

False

Combine like terms with subtraction

100

6g - 14 + g

What is 7g - 14

200

Simplify by combining like terms.

8a - a

What is 7a?

300

Simplify by combining like terms.

18x - 5x

What is 13x?

400

Simplify by combining like terms.

4 + 3a + 14 - 2a

What is a + 18?

500

Simplify by combining like terms.

n + n - 15 + 8n 

What is 10n - 15?

Challenge Level

100

Simplify by combining like terms.

8 + 9k - 2k

What is 7k + 8?

200

Simplify by combining like terms.

2(7m) - 3m + m - 7

What is 12m - 7?

300

Simplify by combining like terms.

3n + 2m

3n + 2m      (They are not like terms.)

400

What are all the constants in the following expression

7k + 3 + 6k + 8

3 and 8

500

Simplify by distributing and combining like terms.

2(13 + 8a - 5a - 7)

What is 6a + 12?

Vocabulary

100

A letter that represents an unknown number is called a

Variable

200

What is the coefficient of b

7b - 3

7

300

A number without a variable is called a 

Constant

400

The parts of an algebraic expression separated by an addition or subtraction sign

What is a "term"?

500

Name the variables in the expression:

4x + 2c + 3m

What are x, c and m