How do you simplify $6 y + 4 m - 7 y + m$ $6y+4m-7y+m$ ?

Question

2670 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-01-05T10:12:58

-y + 5m

to simplify expressions of this type you collect the like terms together. That is collect together the terms which have the same variable in them.

( 6y - 7y ) + ( 4m + m ) = -y + 5m

How do you simplify 6y+4m−7y+m6y+4m-7y+m?