Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
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Lesson Description:
Explains how to simplify algebraic expressions by adding, subtracting, combining like terms, as well as using the distributive property
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Questions answered by this video:
- How do you simplify an Algebraic expression?
- What does it mean to simplify an Algebraic expression?
- What is the distributive property?
- How would you simplify 3 + 4(x + 5) by distributing inside of parentheses?
- How would you subtract 5x - 3 from 2x + 1?
- How do you simplify 2x + 1 - (5x - 3)?
- How do you subtract an entire expression that is inside of parentheses?
- How would you simplify 2.9x - 0.9 - 0.5 - 2.8x?
- How can you simplify -(x + 3y - 6) + 2(4x - 7)?
- How do you combine like terms and how do you know what terms are alike?
- How would you simplify 14 - 11(3m + 2n) - 5m?
- How do you simplify 1/3(9x - 6) - (x - 2)?
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Staff Review
This lesson is a very basic and thorough explanation of what it means to simplify Algebraic expressions. Several example problems are shown in depth for a good introduction to simplifying expressions.
