There is still an negative you have to change the subtraction sign to an addition sign ALONG with the negative number
Simplify by combing like terms to get 2x+5
The answers would be:
the coefficient is 2
the constant is 5
There are two terms.
Given:
The area model.
To find:
The area as a sum and area as a product.
Solution:
The four terms of the area model are
.
The area as a sum is the sum of all the terms of given area model.
Area as a sum = 
= 
The area as a product is the factor form of sum of all the terms of given area model.
Area as a product = 
= 
= 
Therefore, the area as a sum is
and the area as a product is
.