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Practice Exercise  12-1  (click HERE for a printer-friendly version)

Directions: Change the "Word Sentences" into Math Expressions, or Equations, when possible.  Consult the  Answer Key 12-1 below for answers once you finish. Review the Instruction material which relates to any questions you do not get correct.

  1. What is eight increased by five ? = _____
     
  2. What is 19 increased by 7 times y ? = _____
     
  3. What is 7 more than 3? = _____
     
  4. What is 2 more than twice y ? = _____
     
  5. What is 6 less than 5 times a number? = _____
     
  6. What is a number divided by 3? = _____
     
  7. What is 2a more than 2b? = _____
     
  8. What is x less than a divided by b ? = _____
     
  9. What is 4 times the sum of x + y ?  = _____
      
  10. What is 16 plus twice x - y ? = _____

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Answer Key 12-1  (click HERE for a printer-friendly version) (top)

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  1. What is eight increased by five?  Let x be the unknown, then: 8 + 5 = x, so x = 13
     
  2. What is 19 increased by 7 times y19 + 7y
     
  3. What is 7 more than 3?  Let x be the unknown, then: x = 3 + 7, so x = 10
     
  4. What is 2 more than twice y 2y + 2
     
  5. What is 6 less than 5 times a number?  Let x be the number, then: 5x - 6
     
  6. What is a number divided by 3?  Let x be the number, then:
     
  7. What is 2a more than 2b2a + 2b
     
  8. What is x less than a divided by b - x
     
  9. What is 4 times the sum of x + y 4(x + y).
     
     
  10. What is 16 plus twice x - y2x - y + 16.

For additional instructional material and practice exercises on this subject, go to:
www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/equations.html.

 

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