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By convention, the terms in an expression are placed in descending order with the highest degree term appearing first. Numerical terms are placed at the right end of the expression. The commutative property of addition allows us to change the order of the terms.
Eliminate the innermost set of parentheses first.
By the order of operations, simplify inside the parentheses before multiplying (by the 2).
Use the rule for multiplying powers with the same base.
Practice set c
Simplify each of the following expressions by using the distributive property and combining like terms.
Exercises
For the following problems, simplify each of the algebraic expressions.
After observing the following problems, can you make a conjecture about
?
Using the result of problem 52, is it correct to write
Exercises for review
(
[link] ) Simplify
.
(
[link] ) Find the value of
.
(
[link] ) Write the expression
so that no denominator appears.
(
[link] ) How many
are there in
?
(
[link] ) Simplify
.
Source:
OpenStax, Algebra i for the community college. OpenStax CNX. Dec 19, 2014 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11598/1.3
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