Translate Equations into Sentences

What word phrase can you use to represent "5x + 2"?

• five times the sum of a number x and two

• two times the sum of a number x and five

• a number x times the sum of five and two

• the sum of five times a number x and two

Seven more than three times a number

• 7(3 + x)

• 7(3) + x

• 7 + 3 + x

• 3x + 7

Translate this algebraic equation into a verbal equation:

2n = 24

• 2 more than n is 24

• 24 divided by n is 2

• The quotient of 2 and n is 24

• Twice a number, n, is 24

Translate this algebraic equation into a verbal equation:

r - 5 = 15

• The number, r, more than 5 is 15

• 5 decreased by the number, r, is 15

• 5 less than a number, r, is 15

• The number, r, increased by 5 is 15

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.

Translate the following equation:
\frac{25}{s}=\ 5

• The quotient of 25 and a number is equal to 5

• The product of 25 and a number is equal to 5

• Twenty-five decreased by a number is 5

• A number divided by 25 is 5

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Translate this algebraic equation into a verbal equation:

s + 5 = 20

• 5 decreased by the number, s, is 20

• 5 more than a number, s, is 20

• 5 increased by the number, s, is 20

• The number, s, minus 5 is 20

Translate this algebraic equation into a verbal equation:

c - 6 = 23

• The number, c, decreased by 6 is 23

• The number, c, less than 6 is 23

• 6 minus the number, c, is 23

• 23 minus the number, c, is 6

Translate this algebraic equation into a verbal equation:

y + 30 = 42

• The number, y, less than 30 is 42

• 30 more than a number, y, is 42

• The number, y, minus 30 is 42

• 42 plus 30 is the number, y