Geometry: Common Core (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133281159
ISBN 13: 978-0-13328-115-6

Skills Handbook - Evaluating and Simplifying Expressions - Exercises - Page 890: 17

Answer

$2x+3$

Work Step by Step

We start with the given expression: $6x-4x+8-5$ To simplify an algebraic expression, we must eliminate any parentheses and combine like terms. Since there are no parentheses here, we simply combine like terms with subtraction: $2x+3$
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