Basic Equivalents
The expression 3x + 4x is equivalent to this.
What is 7x?
Use the distributive property to simplify: 3(x + 2).
What is 3x + 6?
Combine terms: x + 4 + 3x + 2.
What is 4x + 6?
Factor the expression: 6x + 12.
What is 6(x + 2)?
Simplify: 2a + 3a.
What is 5a?
Combine like terms: 5y + 2y.
What is 7y?
Apply the distributive property to simplify: 2(4y + 5).
What is 8y + 10?
Simplify: 2x + 3x + 4 - 2.
What is 5x + 2?
Factor the expression 8y + 16.
What is 8(y + 2)?
Simplify: 4x - 2x.
What is 2x?
Simplify the expression 6a + 8a - 3a.
What is 11a?
Simplify using the distributive property: 5(2a + 3) - 4a.
What is 10a + 15 - 4a or 6a + 15?
Combine and simplify: 5y - y + 3y + 7.
What is 7y + 7?
Factor: 5a + 15.
What is 5(a + 3)?
Simplify: 7b + 10 - 3b.
What is 4b + 10?
Combine like terms in 4b + 3b + b.
What is 8b?
Simplify: 7(x - 1) + 2x.
What is 9x - 7?
Simplify: 8n - 2n + 6 + 4.
What is 6n + 10?
Factor completely: 9k + 18m.
What is 9(k + 2m)?
Simplify: 5c + 2c - c + 4.
What is 6c + 4?
Simplify 9m - 4m + 6m - m.
What is 10m?
Use the distributive property to simplify: 4(3b + 5) - 2b.
What is 12b + 20 - 2b or 10b + 20?
Combine: 10p + 3p - 4 + 8p + 2.
What is 21p - 2?
Factor the expression: 12p + 18q.
What is 6(2p + 3q)?
Simplify: 8d - 4 + 5d + 3.
What is 13d - 1?