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Equivilent expressions for 5n plus 15n

User Yollanda
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answer is 20n
you add like terms (same variable)

hope this helped, if im wrong....... sorry
User Mohamed Mufeed
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Well, whenever you have 5 of something plus 15 of the same thing,
you always wind up with 20 of them. They could be cows, rocks, cars,
or pencils. In this particular case, the things just happen to be 'n's .

So an equivalent expression for " 5n + 15n " could be " 20n ".

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