Translating Expressions (8th graders)

How would you translate
x - 5 = 12 into words?

• x - 5 = 12
• The product of x and 5 is twelve
• x less than 5 is 12
• Five less than x is 12.

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CCSS.6.EE.B.6

CCSS.6.EE.A.2

Which matches the expression below?

• The quotient of a number and seven, decreased by four.

• Four more than a number divided by seven.

• The difference of a number divided by seven and four.

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CCSS.7.EE.A.2

CCSS.HSA.SSE.A.2

Which matches the equation below?

3x −11 = 17

• Eleven less than the product of a number and three equals seventeen.

• Three times a number, increased by seventeen is eleven.

• Seventeen less than the product of three and a number is eleven.

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CCSS.6.EE.B.6

CCSS.6.EE.A.2

CCSS.6.EE.A.4

CCSS.6.EE.B.5

What is the difference between an expression and equation?

• Expressions have an equal sign and equations do not have an equal sign
• Expressions do not have an equal sign and equations do have an equal sign
• There is not a difference
• Expressions do not have variables and equations have variables

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CCSS.6.EE.A.2B

Which algebraic expression best represents the following verbal expression?
 
half a number x plus 4

• 2x + 4
• x + 4(½)
• ½x + 4 
• x + ½ + 4

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CCSS.6.EE.A.2A

Translate the statement into an equation:
The sum of three times a number and ten is equal to eight times the number.

• 3 + 10 = 8
• 3x + 10 = 8
• 3x + 10 = 8x
• 3(x + 10) = 8x

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CCSS.6.EE.B.6

CCSS.6.EE.A.2

CCSS.6.EE.B.7

"Combined" represents what operation?

• Subtraction
• Addition
• Multiplication
• Division

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CCSS.6.EE.B.6

Two times the sum of a number and 5 is 20

• 2(x+5)=20

• (2x)+5=20

• 2x+(x+5)=20

• x+x+5=20

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

Translate this phrase into an Algebraic expression.
57 more than 3 times Kate's score
Use the variable g to represent Kate's score.

• 57g + 3
• 3g - 57
• 3g + 57
• 57 + 3g

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CCSS.6.EE.A.2A

Translate this phrase into an algebraic expression.
Twice pi divided by the cube of the sum of x and 2 

• 2π ⁄ (x³ + 2)
• 2π³ ⁄ (x + 2)
• 2π ⁄ (x + 2)³
• 2π ⁄ (x³ + 2³)

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CCSS.7.EE.A.2

CCSS.HSA.SSE.A.2