To combine these terms you would add up the a's and b's.
4a+b+a is the same as 4a+a+b. Anything without a constant in front has a value of 1. You have 4a's and you need to add another a. That equals 5a's. The b is left alone since you can only add like variables.
The answer would be C) 5a +b
ANSWER
The value of the expression is

EXPLANATION
Method 1: Rewrite as product of

The expression given to us is,

We use the fact that

to simplify the above expression.

This implies,

We substitute to obtain,


Method 2: Use indices to solve.

This implies that,


Answer:
It didn’t go up, it went down 3 degrees
Step-by-step explanation:
It’s negative degrees so the less negative it is the higher it is.
6/16 or 3/8 because if there are 6 blue out of 16 that it obvious. Please press thank you cuz I hope it helps.
The question does not seem complete, but I'll represent the statement mathematically and look for their ages each. This is because the worst they can ask for is their ages.
Let C stand for Courtney's age, A for Andrei's age, N for Natalie's age and S for Shari's age. From the question we can deduce the following:
C = 2A
C = N + 3
C = S/2
S - N = C + A
S = 2C, N = C - 3 and A = C/2, therefore we have
2C - (C - 3) = C + C/2
C + 3 = C + C/2
C/2 = 3 and C = 6
A = C/2
A= 6/2
A = 3
N = C - 3
N = 6 - 3
N = 3
S = 2C
S = 2 x 6
S = 12.
C = 6, A = 3, N = 3 and S = 12