Question

5w + 3w + 2W + 7vbut it says combining like terms combine like terms to simplify

Answer 1

When we are simplifying like terms we see all the terms that have the same literal parts meanig we add all the letters together.

Example

`5x+6x=11x`

when we have different letters in the expression they cannont be added,

`5w+3w+2w+7v`

in this expression the like terms will be all the ones that have a w, so we add them together and leave the 7v as it is

`\begin{gathered} (5w+3w+2w)+7v \\ 10w+7v \end{gathered}`