How do you determine if terms are like terms? Be specific I need a quick specific explanation of what a like term is please no links thank you :)

Mr switzer needs to buy new 1-foot tiles to cover his bathroom floor. the floor is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. each square foot of tile will cost $1.79. in dollars what will be the total cost of the tiles he needs to buy.

Liz is shipping a package to her friend.the maximum weight of a medium flat-rate box is 20 pounds,including the box which weighs 6 ounces.write and solve an inequality to describe the possible weight ,w, of the contents that liz will ship to her friend if she must use a medium flat-rate box.

Lena reflected this figure across the x-axis. she writes the vertices of the image as a'(−2, 8), b'(−5, 6), c'(−8, 8), d'(−4, 2).