Question

how many terms are in this expression 4x+y-3

Answer 1

How many + or - signs do you see in the expression?

Answer 2

i see one + and i see one -

Answer 3

Hmm, each term is separated by a + or - sign. Do you get it?

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

So, if we have an expression like \(ax^2 + bx - c\), we see that we have three different terms separated by a '+' or '-' sign.

Answer 6

What do you get here?

Answer 7

ok im confussed now

Answer 8

That was an example that I had given above. No need to get confuzzled.

Answer 9

ok

Answer 10

So, how many terms are in the question?

Answer 11

2

Answer 12

Okay, I'd give you an easy way.

Answer 13

Let's think of a plus or minus sign as a wall, okay? We have three different persons.
Let's call them as A,B,C.

Here they are standing together:
ABC

Now we get two walls(plus/minus signs) to divide them.

A | B | C

Answer 14

See how there are only two plus or minus signs but three persons?

Answer 15

ok

Answer 16

So there are 3 terms in here. Got it?

Answer 17

yes i understand now

Answer 18

Nice! :)

Answer 19

ok thank you