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Taylor writes an expression with 5 terms. All 5 terms are like terms. How many terms are in the equivalent expression with the least number of terms?
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Taylor writes an expression with 5 terms. All 5 terms are like terms. How many terms are in the equivalent expression with the least number of terms?

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Taking into account that they are all like terms they can be combined, therefore there would only be one term. For example:
5x-3x+6x-x+2x=
Combine the like terms
2x+6x-x+2x=
It can be simplified further
8x-x+2x=
7x+2x=
9x
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