Q1 Writing Expresions

Desiree made 100 cookies this week.  She baked 4 more than three times the total she made last week.

Write an expression to represent this situation. Use "c" for the cookies she made last week.

Shakira went bowling with her friends.  She paid $3 to rent shoes and then $4.75 for each game of bowling.  She spent a total of $21.

Write an expression to represent this situation. Use "b" for a game of bowling.

This year, Corey’s class took one more than three times as many field trips as last year’s class.  This year, Corey’s class took a total of 7 trips.

Write an expression to represent this situation. Use "t" for the trips taken last year.

This week, Sam spent a total of 100 minutes studying.  This total was 8 more than four times the amount of minutes she studied last week.

Write an expression to represent this situation. Use "t" for the time she spent studying last week.

Ron charged his customers a flat fee of $25 to fix computers.  Then he charged $20 for each hour that he spent fixing the computer.  Ron made $175 off of his first customer.

Write an expression to represent this situation. Use "h" for the amount of hours he spent working on it.

The sum of the measures of the angles of all triangles is 180˚. If one angle of the triangle measures 45˚, and the other two angles are equal. Which correctly represents the situation?

• 180 + 45 = a

• 180 + 2a

• 45 + 2a

• 2a = t

Sandra scores 4 baskets in his first basketball game. She then scored the same number of baskets in each of her next 3 games. Sandra made 19 baskets total. Which option represents this situation?

• 4 + 3b = 19

• 19 - 4 = 3b

• 3b - 4 = 19

• 19 + 4 = 3b

Sandra scores 4 baskets in his first basketball game. She then scored the same number of baskets in each of her next 3 games. If Sandra made 19 baskets total, how many baskets did she score in the last three games together?

• 17

• 18

• 15

• 16

Write the sentence as an equation:

4 less than a number n is 14

Write the sentence as an equation:

Twice a number x increased by 6 is 24