Word Problems: Standard Form

Faith was working admissions to the basketball game is $5 for students (x) and $7 for adults (y). If the faith made $500 dollars at the game on ticket sales, write an equation that represents this scenario.

• 7x+5y=500

• y=7x+500

• 5x+7y=500

• y=500x+7

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

Dalyn is selling girl scout cookies. She sold 7 boxes of thin mints (x) and 12 boxes of tagalongs (y). If she made $82 selling cookies, write an equation that represents the scenario.

• 7x+12y=82

• 12x+7y=82

• 7x+82y=7

• y=7x+82

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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C

Jackson sells 15 apples(x) and 20 oranges(y) and made $75. If oranges cost $1.50 per orange, how much did each apple cost?

• $2.63

• $2

• $1.50

• $3

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

Madison streams netflix (x) for $10.99 a month and spotify (y) for $5.99 a month. If she spent $96.88 total and had netflix for 5 months, how many months did she have spotify?

• 4 months

• 7 months

• 6 months

• 2 months

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

Jamari made jam and has 8oz jars (x) and 10oz jars (y). He made 72 oz of jam. Write an equation to represent this scenario.

• 10x+8y=72

• 8x+10y=72

• 72x+8y=10

• 8x+72y=10

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

Rianna went to Chicago and ate some pizza. She had 2 slices of cheese pizza (x) and 2 slices of deep dish pizza (y). She paid 10.50 the pizza and $3 per piece of the deep dish pizza. How much was each slice of cheese pizza?

• $2

• $1.25

• $2.25

• $3

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

Chris bought dinner for his friends Josh and Tish. He bought 3 large fries (x) and 4 cheeseburgers (y). If he spent $19.65 total, and a small fry is $2.55, how much are the cheeseburgers.

• $3

• $3.15

• $2

• $2.15

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

Matthew, Hazel and Brock are going bowling. They rented 3 pairs of shoes (x) and paid for 2 games of bowling (y). They spent 24.50 total, write and equation to represent this equation.

• 2x+24.50y=3

• 2x+3y=24.50

• 3x+24.50y=2

• 3x+2y=24.50

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

Katy, Megan, and Nathan are playing a card game. There are 8 red cards (x) and 12 black cards (y) in the deck. If the total points possible is 100 points, and red cards are worth 5 points. How many points are black cards worth?

• 40

• 5

• 60

• 7

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

Brody, Olevia, Jonah, Kailea, and Christian are playing basketball, scoring with jump shots (x) and three pointers (y). They scored a total of 48 points and made 4 three pointers. How many jump shots did they make?

• 20

• 18

• 16

• 14

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A