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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).
Simplify each of the following expressions by using the distributive property and combining like terms.
For the following problems, simplify each of the algebraic expressions.
After observing the following problems, can you make a conjecture about
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( [link] ) Simplify .
( [link] ) Write the expression so that no denominator appears.
( [link] ) Simplify .
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