Question

Solve to determine if the following expressions are equivalent: 8a - 4 + 2a and 6a + 4.unknownnot equivalentequivalent

Answer 1

`Not\text{ Equivalent}`

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we want to solve the two expressions to check if they are equivalent

What we have to do is to collect the like terms

In the first expression:

`\begin{gathered} 8a-4\text{ + 2a} \\ =\text{ 8a + 2a - 4 = 10a-4} \end{gathered}`

The second expression cannot be simplified further

In that case, we can see that the two are simply the not equivalent