Question

Consider the expression 8ab + 3b - 16 - 4a. RE (a) How many terms are there? (b) How many factors are in the first term? Identify them. (c) Which term is a constant?

Answer 1

• 4 terms

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• 3 factors, 8,a, and b

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• -16

1) Considering the expression 8ab +3b-16-4a

a) Note that we can see that there are four terms namely:

$8ab,3b,-16,-4a$

b) In the first term we can see three factors note that factors are also known as the multiplier and the multiplicand for this so:

$8ab=8\cdot a\cdot b$

So, there are three terms

c) Constant terms are the terms that do not have any dependent term on x, in other words, the constant here is -16

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