What are terms? how do you combine them? can you give me an example?

A term is any number, variable or combination of a number and a variable in an equation.

Examples:

In 2x + 5y + 8, 2x is one term,  5y is a second term and 8 is a 3rd term.

In the equation 2x + 3 + 5x -2

Combine the like terms 2x and 5x are like terms because they both have x as a variable, there is a plus sign in fron of the 5x, so you would have 2x +5x = 7x

Then 3 and 3 are like terms, because they are just numbers, there is a subtraction sign in front of the 2, so you have 3-2 = 1

The equation then becomes: 2x + 3 + 5x -2 : 7x + 1

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step-by-step explanation:

hello and welcome!

so, when we see the words "proportional" along with a table, we need to know that we're looking numbers that divide by the same thing.

looking at this table, we simply have to do a trial and error, and divide to see which numbers have the same quotient. if you look at choice a & c, they both have equal quotients for three of the numbers, with one exception, so those can't be the answer. looking at b, there is no similarity, so that can't be it. then, we see d; if you divide all the numbers in the table, you'll see that they all divide by two, which is a proportional relationship, and our answer!

also, always remember that the x will always be the number that goes into y, and somewhere behind this table, is a formula. for this specific table, the formula would be:

since our x-value is being divided by two to get the y-value. and if they were to ask for more numbers in the series, this is the formula you would use to find them.