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Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

• A term is a number, a variable, or the product of a number and one or more variables. The terms of an algebraic expression are separated by plus and minus signs.
• You can combine terms when they are like terms. Like terms are those that have exactly the same variable factors.
• There is a coefficient of 1 in front of a variable that does not have any numeric coefficient. For example you can write 1x as x or −1y as −y.