Terms, Coefficient, and Constants

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Here, we have an expression with multiple parts:

4x - 8 + y - 3

This expression is made up of three components:

Terms
Terms are parts of an equation, separated by mathematical operators.

Terms

Terms are parts of an equation, separated by mathematical operators.

Figure 1.

Coefficients
Coefficients are the numerical parts of terms containing variables.

Figure 2.

Here, the coefficient in front of x is "4". The coefficient in front of y is "1".

Constants
Constants are terms that do not contain variables.

Figure 3.