👉 Learn how to simplify rational powers using the power and the quotient rules. There are some laws of exponents which might come handy when simplifying expressions with exponents. Some of the laws ...

Two of the terms involve \(x\) and two involve \(y\). Now we can combine the \(x\) terms and combine the \(y\) terms to get \(3x + 2y\).

Two linear expressions can be expanded, and then simplified by collecting like terms, if there are any. Linear expressions have no terms with power of 2 or higher. For example, 15x – 4y is a linear ...