{"id":18499,"date":"2026-05-03T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/combine-like-terms-130\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:09:18","slug":"combine-like-terms-130","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/combine-like-terms-130\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine Like Terms 130"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simplify: (7x + 5y &#8211; 10) + (-5x + 4y &#8211; 3).<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>2x + 8y &#8211; 13<\/li>\n<li>3x + 9y &#8211; 13<\/li>\n<li>2x + 9y &#8211; 13<\/li>\n<li>12x + 9y &#8211; 13<\/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-18499","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 7 + (-5) = 2; the y-coefficients give 5 + (4) = 9; constants give -10 + (-3) = -13. Therefore the simplified expression is 2x + 9y - 13.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"2x + 8y - 13"},{"right":"no","answer":"3x + 9y - 13"},{"right":"yes","answer":"2x + 9y - 13"},{"right":"no","answer":"12x + 9y - 13"}],"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\/18499","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=18499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}