{"id":18336,"date":"2026-05-03T03:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/combine-like-terms-66\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:53:26","slug":"combine-like-terms-66","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/combine-like-terms-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine Like Terms 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simplify: (-8x &#8211; 7y &#8211; 10) + (x + 3y + 6).<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>-6x &#8211; 4y &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<li>-7x &#8211; 4y &#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-18336","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 -8 + (1) = -7; the y-coefficients give -7 + (3) = -4; constants give -10 + (6) = -4. Therefore the simplified expression is -7x - 4y - 4.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"-6x - 4y - 4"},{"right":"yes","answer":"-7x - 4y - 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\/18336","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=18336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18336"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}