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why can you NOT combine 3x and 5x^2?

8 years ago

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Steve
x and x^2 are different animals

you cannot combine x and y, either, or apples and oranges.

If x is a dimension, like length, then x^2 is an area. They don't combine at all.
8 years ago

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