- A term is a single mathematical expression. It may be a single number (positive or negative), a single variable ( a letter ), several variables multiplied but never added or subtracted.
Example:
4x
[tex] - 3 {x}^{2} [/tex]
4x + 10
in the expression 4x + 10 it has 2 terms because 4x and 10 are the only term in their.
