Unit 1 (building blocks)

Question 1

What are expressions?

Answer 1

Expressions are any combo of numbers and/or variables using any of the operations (+-•/)

Question 2

You evaluate an expression by

Answer 2

finding the final value of an expression when all variable values are known

Question 3

The distributive property

Answer 3

When a,b,c all represent real numbers then:
a(b+-c) = a(b) +- a(c)

Question 4

2 or more algebraic expressions are equivalent if

Answer 4

they have the same value for every value of the substitution variable (no matter what you put in for x, the expressions come out with the same answer)

Question 5

an agebraic term or a term is a

Answer 5

combo of numbers and variables using ONLY multiplication, division, and exponets. Terms are separated into expressions by addition or subtraction

Question 6

Like terms are algebraic terms that..

Answer 6

contain the same variables raised to the same exponets