QUESTION 5
The given expression is

All of these are like terms because all of them contain
.
Let us combine the first two terms to obtain an expression which is

We finally simplify to obtain an expression which is

The correct answer is B
QUESTION 6
The given expression is

All the terms in the expression are like terms because they contain
.
We combine the first three terms to obtain an expression which is

We finally simplify to obtain an equivalent expression which is

The correct answer is B
QUESTION 7
The given expression is

All the terms in the given expression are like terms because they all contain
.
We combine the first two terms to obtain an equivalent expression which is

We again combine the first two terms to obtain an equivalent expression which is

We finally simplify to obtain an expression which is

The correct answer is A
QUESTION 8
The given expression is

The first two terms in the expression are like terms because they contain
. The last two terms in the expression are also like terms because they contain
.
When we combine the first two terms we obtain an equivalent expression which is

When we again combine the last two terms we obtain an equivalent expression which is

This final expression cannot be combined again because they are not like terms.
Therefore the correct answer is D
QUESTION 9
The given expression is

We group like terms to obtain,

We combine the first three terms to obtain,

We combine the middle two terms to obtain,

The correct answer is B
QUESTION 10
The given expression is

We group like terms to obtain an equivalent expression which is

We combine the first three terms to get,

We now combine the last two terms to get,

The correct answer is A