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

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Like terms are terms that are the exact same excluding coefficients.

To combine like terms, add or subtract the coefficients.

Here are a few examples.
-3x^2+ 2x^2= -x^2

14xyz-12xyz=2xyz

12p-3p+8p= 17p
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