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Combine like terms to simplify the expression 3X + 5 - X + 1

User Hui Zheng
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When you combine the terms the expression you get is 2x + 6. You can add 3x and -x which is 2x and then you can combine 5 and 1 which is 6! I hope this helped!!
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