Distributive Property
3(x - 8)
What is 3x - 24
3(a+7) + 2(4+a)
What is 5a + 29
21b - 11b - 21 - 11b
What is -b - 21
A letter used to represent an unknown numerical value
What is a variable?
-(p - 11)
What is -p + 11
A type of term that has no variables, ONLY numbers
-12(-t - 4)
What is 12t + 48
Same variable to the same power
Same variable & same exponent
What is like terms?
a (b + c) = ab + ac
What is distributive property?
-15j - 9(2k - 6j) - 18k
What is 39j - 36k
A number that is multiplied to a variable.
This number appears in front of the variable.
What is a coefficient?