Mastering Elimination: Solve & Verify Systems of Equations
Authored by Anthony Clark
English, Mathematics
8th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A farmer has chickens and cows. If the total number of animals is 30 and the total number of legs is 100, how many chickens and cows does the farmer have? Use the elimination method to solve and check your solution.
5 chickens and 25 cows
15 chickens and 15 cows
10 chickens and 20 cows
20 chickens and 10 cows
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CCSS.8.EE.C.8C
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Two friends, Alex and Jamie, are collecting stickers. Alex has 5 more stickers than Jamie, and together they have 45 stickers. How many stickers does each friend have? Use the elimination method and verify your answer.
Alex has 30 stickers and Jamie has 15 stickers.
Alex has 20 stickers and Jamie has 25 stickers.
Alex has 10 stickers and Jamie has 35 stickers.
Alex has 25 stickers and Jamie has 20 stickers.
Tags
CCSS.8.EE.C.8C
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A school is selling tickets for a play. Adult tickets cost $10 and student tickets cost $5. If they sold a total of 200 tickets for $1500, how many adult and student tickets were sold? Use elimination to find the solution and check your work.
200 adult tickets and 0 student tickets were sold.
100 adult tickets and 100 student tickets were sold.
50 adult tickets and 150 student tickets were sold.
150 adult tickets and 50 student tickets were sold.
Tags
CCSS.8.EE.C.8C
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In a bookstore, the total number of books is 120. If the number of fiction books is twice the number of non-fiction books, how many fiction and non-fiction books are there? Solve using the elimination method and confirm your solution.
Fiction books: 50, Non-fiction books: 70
Fiction books: 100, Non-fiction books: 20
Fiction books: 60, Non-fiction books: 60
Fiction books: 80, Non-fiction books: 40
Tags
CCSS.8.EE.C.8C
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A car rental company charges a flat fee of $50 plus $0.20 per mile driven. If a customer paid $70 for their rental, how many miles did they drive? Use the elimination method to find the answer and check your calculations.
100 miles
120 miles
80 miles
50 miles
Tags
CCSS.7.EE.B.4A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A concert hall has two types of seating: regular and VIP. If the total number of seats is 500 and the VIP seats are 100 more than the regular seats, how many regular and VIP seats are there? Solve using elimination and verify your solution.
Regular seats: 150, VIP seats: 350
Regular seats: 200, VIP seats: 300
Regular seats: 300, VIP seats: 200
Regular seats: 250, VIP seats: 250
Tags
CCSS.8.EE.C.8C
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In a fruit market, the total number of apples and oranges is 80. If there are 20 more apples than oranges, how many apples and oranges are there? Use the elimination method to solve and check your answer.
60 apples and 20 oranges
40 apples and 40 oranges
30 apples and 50 oranges
50 apples and 30 oranges
Tags
CCSS.8.EE.C.8C
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