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This video covers the concept of combining like terms. If you try to combine terms with different variables, it just won’t work. But terms with the same variable? Now that’s a match made in Pre-Algebra heaven.

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00:03

Combining Like Terms, a la Shmoop.

00:07

Do you, x squared minus 7, take this expression, [Couple with math calculations for heads marrying]

00:11

x squared plus 4, to be your lawfully combined term?

00:17

I do.

00:18

I do.

00:20

Algebra Tov! It’s been happening for centuries. [Wine glass shatters]

00:24

Like terms have been combining.

00:26

Creating lives together. Producing offspring. [Like terms math calculations laid in bed]

00:29

Statistics show that 87% of like terms stay combined.

00:34

But… there is an unlucky 13% who… aren’t able to make it work.

00:38

In the case of this lucky couple… …they found each other… [algebra calculation sat on a park bench]

00:41

…but not without some challenges. There was 4y’s old flame, for example.

00:45

Love was in the air… but it simply wasn’t meant to be.

00:49

It seemed as if divine forces were conspiring to keep them apart… [lightning strikes and separates the algebra terms]

00:52

Finally, they gave up on their adolescent impulses.. and moved on.

00:57

But when 4y met 7y several years later…

01:01

…she realized that this term was who she was destined to marry… [4y and 7y by the seaside and a love heart appears]

01:06

and someday have little digits of their own.

01:08

Well, they had no trouble whatsoever combining…

01:10

…as will become clear should you happen to find the whole family at home some evening.

01:14

Of course, 4y and 7y are just one successful couple.

01:18

There are a zillion similar stories of happy unions. [lots of like terms appear]

01:21

All of whom have been busy changing their relationship status on Facebook.

01:25

Now there are a couple of “liked” terms…

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