{"id":18288,"date":"2026-05-03T03:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/combine-like-terms-32\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:46:37","slug":"combine-like-terms-32","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/combine-like-terms-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine Like Terms 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simplify: (-x + 7y + 8) + (-4x &#8211; 7y &#8211; 12).<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>3x &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<li>-4x &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<li>-5x &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<li>-5x &#8211; y &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705,2722],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-18288","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","topic-simplifying-expressions","subject-mathematics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Combine only like terms. The x-coefficients give -1 + (-4) = -5; the y-coefficients give 7 + (-7) = 0; constants give 8 + (-12) = -4. Therefore the simplified expression is -5x - 4.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"3x - 4"},{"right":"no","answer":"-4x - 4"},{"right":"yes","answer":"-5x - 4"},{"right":"no","answer":"-5x - y - 4"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"},{"id":2722,"title":"Simplifying Expressions","slug":"simplifying-expressions"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/18288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}