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explain how combining like terms is similar to adding and subtracting whole numbers how are they different​

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Combining like terms is pretty chill, as long as we're careful with our negative and positive numbers. (For a quick review, check out adding integers and subtracting integers.) When adding and subtracting like terms, all we really need to do is combine the coefficients.

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