Addition and subtraction of polynomials

What are “like terms”? why can we only add like terms?

The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 1252 chips and standard deviation 129 chips. (a) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1100 and 1500 chocolate chips, inclusive? (b) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1125 chocolate chips? (c) what proportion of bags contains more than 1225 chocolate chips? (d) what is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1425 chocolate chips?

Match the equivalent expressions. x - 3y + 12 12 - 3y - 2x + x + 2x 3x + 2y - 2x + y + 12 3y + 12 3x + y - 12 4y + 3y + 3x - 6y - 10 - 2 x + 3y + 2x - 3x + 7 + 5 x + 3y + 12 5 + 2y + 7x - 4x + 3y - 17