Combining like terms with rational coefficients

The  exercise appears under the Algebra basics Math Mission. This exercise practices combining like terms for expressions that have rational coefficients. This requires adding and subtracting fractions.

Types of problems
There is one type of problem in this exercise:
 * 1) Combine like terms to simplify the expression:: This problem has multiply like terms and user is asked to combine them to simplify the expression. Combining like terms with rational coefficients.PNG

Strategies
Basic like terms and coefficients are needed for this exercise.
 * 1) When user is combining like terms they need to combine the coefficient terms, and combine the constant terms.

Real-life Applications

 * 1) Problems like this will appear on standardized tests, like the SATs and ACTs.