The document discusses the distributive property and how it allows adding or subtracting coefficients of terms when simplifying expressions. It notes that like terms can have positive or negative coefficients and are the same variable(s) raised to the same power(s). When simplifying, the distributive property distributes multiplication over addition and subtraction, and like terms can be combined in your head or on paper by rewriting subtraction as adding the opposite. The document assigns practice problems from page 90, written exercises 1 through 30.

1. 3.5 Simplifying
Expressions

2. The Distributive Property
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3. The Distributive Property
 The distributive property allows us to add/subtract
coefficients of terms
 Note that we can combine like terms with positive or
negative coefficients
 Remember that like terms are the same variable(s)
raised to the same power(s)
 It is not necessary to use the parenthesis, you may
combine like terms in your head
 you should still rewrite subtraction as adding the
opposite

4. Simplify
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5. Simplify
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6. Simplify
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7. Simplify
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8. Simplify
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9. Simplify
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10. Simplify
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11. Assignment
 Page 90
 Written Exercises #1 – 30