Translate Real-World Descriptions into Numerical Expressions

Write an algebraic expression for:
 35 decreased by a number

• 35+n

• 35-n

• n-35

Write a verbal expression for:
4q

• Four q

• Four times q

• Four plus q

Four times the sum of 7 and w

• 4 x w

• 4(7 + w)

• 47w

8 (n - 3)

• Eight minus n and three

• Eight times the difference of n and three

• The addition of n and 3

a number increased by eighteen

• 18n

• n+18

• 18-n

Write the following verbal expression as a numerical expression: nineteen more than the product of three and seven

• 19 - 3 × 7

• 3 × 7 + 19

fourteen times a number

• n-14

• 14n

• 14+n

• 14-n

the sum of fifty-two and a number

• n-52

• 52 + n

• 52/n

• 52n

10 subtracted by a number, b

• 10 - b

• b - 10

• b

• b + 10

m plus the product of 6 and n 

• m + 6n

• m - 6 + n

• 6m + n

• m + 6 + n