Question

How do you simplify `(4p^2q + 5p^3q^2 - 6pq) - ( -2p^3q^2 + 5pq - 8p^2q)`?

Answer 1

Combine like terms.

Explanation:

In order to solve this problem, we need to combine like terms (terms that contain the same variable(s)). Let's make three simple subtraction problems:

`4p^(2)q--8p^(2)q=4p^(2)q+8p^(2)q=12p^2q`
`5p^3q^2--2p^3q^2=5p^3q^2+2p^3q^2=7p^3q^2`
`-6pq-5pq=-11pq`

Let's put all three of those answers into an equation to get our answer:

`12p^2q+7p^3q^2-11pq`