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I.  Order of Operations and Simplifying Numeric Expressions

A.  Simplify each expression.

1. 20 2 5 3 3 1 4 4 4 2. 14 3 2 2 12 4 2 4 2 1 4

3. 3 3 9 2 (9 1 0) 4 3 3 9 4. 5 1 10 4 2 2 6 3 1

5. 6 2 4 4 2 1 5 3 3 6. 25 3 6 2 3 2 4 4 2

7. 8 1 7 3 2 2 15 4 5 8. 24 4 6 1 3 3 3 2 7

9. 18 2 2 3 4 3 2 1 10 4 2 10. 9 4 3 2 1 1 8 3 7 2 16

11. 10 1 18 4 3 4 2 2 3 3 4 12. 36 4 12 1 9 3 3 2 12

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B.  Simplify each expression using the Order of Operations.

1. 4 1 3 4 1 2 2 3 3 2. 5 3 3 2 8 1 10 4 2

3. 5 1 2 3 3 2 8 4 4 4. 15 2 12 4 6 4 2 3 4 1 7

5. 5 2 8 4 4 1 2 3 7 6. 1 1 3 3 (4 2 1) 1 6 4 2

7. 4 1 3 3 5 2 12 8. 56 4 8 1 3 3 6

9. 13 1 9 3 2 2 14 4 2 10. 9 3 8 2 29 1 30 4 15 2 15

11. 36 4 (12 2 8) 1 2 3 5 12. 18 1 4 4 4 2 2 3 (3 1 1)

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C.  Write each exponent expression as a product of factors.

1. 52 2. 73

3. 45 4. 32

5. 29 6. 83

7. 64 8. 97

9. 16 10. 103

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D.  Simplify each numeric expression.

1. 42 ? 3 2. 33 2 14 4 2 1 5

3. 17 2 23 4. 144 4 62 ? 8 1 22

5. 32 4 42 6. 24 2 3 ? 5 1 9

7. 9 1 52 2 2 ? 32 8. 112 2 7 ? 6 2 43 4 2

9. (4 1 3) ? 5 10. ((3 ? 42) 1 2) 4 5

11. (13 2 8)2 12. (23 1 13) 4 (12 2 9)

13. 29 2 (22 1 7) 14. ((5 ? 7) 2(8 ? 4))3 2 10

15. 40 4 (11 2 9)2 16. 72 1 ((46 2 7 ? 2) 4 23)2

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II.  Evaluating Multi-Step Expressions

A. Evaluate the expression for the variable to solve each problem.

1. A frame maker is hired by an art museum 2. You purchased two solar panels that have
to make a special frame for a large, the same width but different heights.
rectangular painting. The painting is 3 One panel has a height of 5.6 feet and
times as long as it is tall. The expression the other panel has a height of 7.2 feet.
2(x 1 3x) represents the perimeter of the To calculate the area that both panels will
painting, where x represents the length of cover, you use the formula 5.6w 1 7.2w,
the short side of the painting in feet. where w is the width of each panel in
feet.
What is the total feet of framing needed if
the short side of the painting measures 2.6 How much area will both panels cover if
feet? they are each two feet wide?

3. Pearl wants to determine the average 4. Alice sells slices of pie and cheesecake at
number of goals she scored her first five her bakery, for $3.90 per slice. During the
field hockey games of the season. She lunch rush, she sold all of the slices from
scored 2 goals in the first game, 3 goals the ten cheesecakes she had on display
in the second, and 5 goals in the third. and five slices of pie. The expression
She can’t remember how many goals she 3.9(10s 1 5) represents the amount of
scored in the fourth and fifth games but money she earns during the lunch rush in
she does remember that she scored the dollars, where s is the number of slices in a
same number of times in each of those cheesecake.
​​ 2 1 3 1 55 1 x 1 x  
games. The expression _______________
   ​​
will determine the average number of If each cheesecake was cut into 10 slices,
goals she scored, where x is the number of how much money did she earn?
goals she scored in each of the fourth and
fifth games.

If Pearl scored 2 goals in each of the

fourth and fifth games, what was her
average number of goals per game?

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5. Alicia, a graphic designer, is designing 6. Malik is building a new chicken coop for
a new logo for a company. The logo his backyard. The side of the coop is in
will contain a square and a triangle. The the shape of a trapezoid, where the lower
triangle’s base and height will be the same base of the trapezoid is 7 feet long, and
length as the side of the square. Alicia the upper base of the trapezoid is
wants to use fabric to create the shapes ​​ 12 ​​h(7 1 5)
5 feet long. The expression __
to use during her presentation to the will determine the number of square feet
company. The expression s ? s 1 0.5s ? s of wood he will need for the side of the
represents the number of square inches coop, where h is the height of the side of
of fabric she will need to create the logo, the coop in feet.
where s is the length of the side of the
square in inches. If Malik wants the side of the chicken coop
to be 5.2 feet tall, how many square feet
If a side of the square is 9.7 inches long, of wood will he need?
how many square inches of fabric will
Alicia need?

7. Brandon and Rey are both hired to work 8. To save up for veterinary school, you start
at the school fun fair. The school pays your own animal care business. You will
Brandon $6.80 per hour to work outside help owners by doing just about anything
and Rey $8.30 per hour to work inside. for their dogs, including feed, walk, bathe,
To calculate how much the school owed and board them. However, your love is to
them, they used the formula 6.8h 1 8.3h, train the dogs. You have a few expenses
where h is the number of hours they like dog treats and pooper-scooper bags
worked. that total about $1.10 per session. Each
customer pays you $7.40 per session. To
If they both worked 6 hours, how much calculate how much you make in a week of
did they earn together? training, you use the formula 7.4d 2 1.1d,
where d is the number of dog-training
sessions you have.

How much do you make if you have 6

sessions in a week?

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9. In the year 2150, a colony is started on the 10. A strong push-off adds momentum to a
Moon. The colony first creates 9.7 square bobsled and over the entire run adds
miles of farmland. After that, the colony 7.9 yards to the distance the sled travels
adds 3.3 square miles of new farmland per in a given time. The rest of the sled’s
year. Each year the colony also converts speed is contributed by the force of
1 square mile of the original farmland to gravity. A certain sled travels at a speed
green space to produce more oxygen for of 5.4 yards per second after the push-
the colony. The expression 9.7 1 3.3y 2 y
off. The bobsled’s average speed is given
represents the Moon colony’s farmland
by the total distance divided by the run’s
in square miles, where y represents the
​​ 7.9 1
time. The expression ________ t 
5.4t
 ​​ represents
 
number of years.
the average speed for the sled in yards
How many total square miles of farmland per second, where t represents the
will the Moon colony have after 10 years? number of seconds into the run.

What is the sled’s average speed, in

yards per second, 6 seconds into the run?

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III.  Evaluating Expressions with Multiple Variables

A.  Evaluate the expression for the variables to solve each problem.

1. Seth went to Leonard’s Laughs to purchase 2. A museum gift shop sells popcorn in
funny items to use at a birthday party. He containers shaped like the great Pyramid
decided to get 2 packs of Googly Eyes, 3 ​​ 13 ​​Bh represents
at Giza. The expression __
pairs of Creepy Glasses, and 1 bag of Fake the volume of a pyramid in cubic inches,
Ants. The expression m − (2a 1 3b 1 c) where B represents the area of the base
represents the amount of money in dollars of the pyramid in square inches and h
Seth will have left after his purchases, represents the height of the pyramid in
where m represents the amount of money inches.
he gives the cashier in dollars, a represents
the cost of a pack of Googly Eyes in What is the volume of a pyramid container
dollars, b represents the cost of a pair of if the area of its base is 100 square inches
Creepy Glasses in dollars, and c represents and its height is 5 inches?
the cost of a bag of Fake Ants in dollars.

How much will Seth have left if he gives

the cashier $9, the Googly Eyes are $0.80
per pack, the Creepy Glasses are $1.30 per
pair, and the Fake Ants are $2.50 a bag?

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3. In basketball, players can score 3-pointers 4. Admission to a museum is $7.10 per

by successfully shooting a basket from adult and $4.80 per child. The expression
outside the three-point line. Players can 7.1a 1 4.8c represents the total cost in
score 2-points by successfully shooting dollars for admission for a adults and
a basket from inside the three-point line. c children.
The expression 3x 1 2y represents the
number of points a player scores where x If 6 adults and 6 children attend the
is the number of successful baskets from museum, what is the total cost?
outside the three-point line and y is the
number of successful baskets from inside
the three-point line.

If Oscar successfully made 5 shots from

outside of the three-point line and 9 shots
from inside of the three-point line, how
many points did he score for his team?

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5. In California, when customers return 6. A few homeowners with overgrown

empty glass and plastic bottles or jars to woods in their back yards were asked to
redemption centers, they are refunded donate some of their smaller trees for
money. Customers are refunded 5 cents transplanting in a local community area.
on bottles that hold less than 24 ounces The contributing homeowners live in
and 10 cents on bottles that hold at least Berkshire and Roxbury. The community
24 ounces. The expression 5s 1 10m area already has ten trees. The expression
represents the total refund in cents when ax 1 by 1 10 represents the total number
s is the number of less than 24-ounce of trees the community area will have
bottles returned and m is the number of at after transplanting, where a represents
least 24-ounce bottles returned. the number of contributing homeowners
in Berkshire, x represents the number
If Ethan returns 5 bottles that hold less of trees donated per homeowner in
than 24 ounces and 10 bottles that hold Berkshire, b represents the number of
more than 24 ounces, what will be his total contributing homeowners in Roxbury, and
refund? y represents the number of trees donated
per homeowner in Roxbury.

How many trees will the community area

have after transplanting six trees from
each of seven homeowners in Berkshire
and three trees from each of seven
homeowners in Roxbury?

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7. A city planning committee recycles used 8. Each of the last 2 years, Orpheus lost his
tires to create walking paths in city parks. phone x times and his eReader y times.
Tire manufacturers donated several tons This year he lost his new tablet z times,
of scrap tire material from a warehouse and the year is not even over yet. The
location. Tire service companies total number of times he lost his stuff
contributed 2.7 times the amount that the can be shown as 2(x 1 y) 1 z.
manufacturers donated. The planners also
collected donations from local citizens. If he lost his phone twice each year, his
Junkyards donated about 2.7 fewer tons eReader twice each year, and his tablet
of tires than the citizens. The expression 6 times already, how many times has
w 1 2.7w 1 c 1 (c 2 2.1) represents
Orpheus lost his stuff?
the total tons of tires collected, where
w represents the tons of tires at the
warehouse location, and c represents the
tons of tires donated by the citizens.

How many tons of tires were collected

if there were 7.1 tons of tires in the
warehouse location and 7.1 tons of tires
donated by citizens?

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9. For a new Native American Museum, 10. Mako’s basketball team made several
an architect designs a building in the two-point baskets, three-point baskets,
shape of a cone. The expression and free-throw baskets during the first
1.1(r ? rh) represents the estimated volume quarter of Friday night’s game. The
of the building in cubic meters, where r expression 2x 1 3y 1 z represents
represents the radius of the building in the total points earned during the first
meters and h represents the building’s quarter, where x represents the number
height in meters.
of two-point baskets, y represents the
number of three-point baskets, and z
What is the estimated volume of the
building in cubic meters if its radius is represents the number of free-throw
7.5 meters and its height is 10.1 meters? baskets.

How many points did Mako’s team earn

during the first quarter of Friday night’s
game if there were three two-point
baskets, three three-point baskets, and
six free-throw baskets?

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IV.  Modeling Equivalent Algebraic Expressions

A.  Write an algebraic expression to represent each model.

1. 2.

y y x x x y
x2 x2 x2
1 x x

3. 4.

xy xy xy
x y y x x x 1 y y 1

5. 6.

x2 x2 x2 xy x2
y 1 1 1 x x 1 y x

B.  Write an algebraic expression to represent each model. Then, if possible, combine like
terms to ­simplify the expression.
1. 2.

x y x x x y y y 1 y y

1 1 1

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3. 4.

x2 x2 x2
xy xy
x x 1 1 1

1 1 1

5. 6.

xy xy xy xy
x x 1 y y x 1 1 1

V.  Exploring the Distributive Property with Algebraic Expressions

A.  Write a multiplication expression to represent each model.

1. 2.

1x 1x 1x 11 1x 11 11 11

1x 1x 1x 11 1x 11 11 11

1x 1x 1x 11

1x 1x 1x 11

3. 4.

1x 1x 1x 11 11 11 11 11 1x 1x

1x 1x 1x 11 11 11 11 11 1x 1x

1x 1x 1x 11 11 11 11 11 1x 1x

1x 1x

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5. 6.

1x 2 1xy 1xy 1xy

1x 1y 1y 1y 1y 1y

1xy 1xy 1xy

1x 2 1y 1y 1y 1y 1y
1x
1xy 1xy 1xy
1y 1y 1y 1y 1y

B.  Write an equivalent expression for each without grouping symbols.

1. 4(2x) 2. 3(5x 1 2)

3. 10(x 1 1) 4. 5(2y)

5. 2(x2 1 x) 6. 2(3xy 1 5y)

7. 6(8xy) 8. 7(2y 1 3)

9. 8(3xy 1 5y) 10. 5(2y2 1 7)

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11. 3(4x 1 9y) 12. 2(x2 1 8xy 1 y2)

C.  Write each expression as a product of two expressions.

1. 4x 1 2 2. 12x 1 8

3. 10 1 15x 4. 12 1 9x

5. 18x 1 12 6. 32 1 20x

7. 54 1 24x 8. 36x 1 21

9. 3x 1 30 10. 88 1 55x

11. 25x 1 100 12. 16 1 48x

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VI.  Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

A.  Simplify each expression completely.

1. 7 3 3 1 6x 4 2 1 8 2. 4 3 3x 1 5 4 1 2 x

3. 3 1 6(3x 1 3) 4. 7x 1 6 4 6 1 2x

5. 6x 1 3 4 8 2 4x 6. 4x(4 1 3)

7. 2x ? 4 1 4x ? 5 8. 3x 1 5x(5 2 5)

9. 2 1 8(9 1 4x) 10. 9x ? 2 1 5 4 3 2 9x

11. 2 3 7 1 3x 4 8 1 8 12. 3(5x 2 2x ? 2)

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VII.  Patterns and One-Step Expressions

A.  Solve each problem.

1. The amount of time that a United States 2. Enrique is an aspiring painter, and he
$1 bill stays in circulation is called its currently has 14 paintings in his art gallery.
lifespan. The average lifespan of a $1 bill is He creates 1 new painting every month to
21 months. add to his collection.
Complete the table. Then define a Complete the table. Then define a
variable for the time that a $1 bill has been variable for the amount of time Enrique
in circulation and use this variable to write paints and use this variable to write an
an expression for the time remaining in its expression for the number of paintings in
lifespan. his collection.

Time in Circulation Time Remaining in Time Painting Number of

(months) Lifespan (months) (months) Paintings
 9  6
15  9
20 10

3. Matthew feeds his horse 10 pounds of hay 4. Part of your job at Felix’s Shoe Store is
per day. organizing deliveries. You notice a strange
pattern that the number of boxes of shoes
Complete the table. Then define a delivered for a particular shoe size is 8
variable for the time Matthew feeds his more than the shoe size.
horse and use this variable to write an
expression for the amount of hay fed to Complete the table. Then define a
Matthew’s horse. variable for the shoe size and use this
variable to write an expression for the
Time Feeding Hay Feed to Horse number of boxes.
Horse (days) (pounds)
 3 Shoe Size Number of Boxes
 7 5
23 9
11

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5. The Springfield Football League needs to 6. Shane won a gift card for music
order new jerseys. They order seven more downloads from a raffle drawing. He
medium-sized jerseys than large-sized allows his brother to download 3 songs
jerseys. using his gift card.

Complete the table. Then define Complete the table. Then define a
a variable for the number of large variable for the number of songs initially
jerseys and use this variable to write an on the gift card and use his variable to
expression for the number of medium write an expression for the number of
jerseys. songs left on the gift card.

Large Jerseys Medium Jerseys Songs on Gift Card Songs Left

 7 19
10 17
15 12

7. The NCAA allows each Division I school to 8. A small wind farm opens to create energy
offer 12 softball scholarships per year. starting with 15 wind turbines. Each month
they add another turbine.
Complete the table. Then define a
variable for the number of schools and use Complete the table. Then define a
this variable to write an expression for the variable for the time adding wind
number of scholarships. turbines and use this variable to write an
expression for the number of turbines.
Number of
Number of Schools
Scholarships Time Adding Number of
 6 Turbines (months) Turbines
 8 12
13 24
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9. Emilia is excited because she just scored 10. Belita and Lucy are going shopping with
a cleaning job at the local motel. She will the money they earned babysitting. Lucy
be working five days a week, and there has $14 less than Belita to spend.
are twenty-five rooms to be dusted,
Complete the table. Then define a
mopped, and vacuumed each day.
variable for Belita’s money and use this
Complete the table. Then define a variable to write an expression for Lucy’s
variable for the time Emilia works and money.
use this variable to write an expression
for the number of rooms cleaned. Belita’s Money Lucy’s Money
(dollars) (dollars)
Time Worked 75
Rooms Cleaned
(days) 68
 5 54
30
40

11. Wetlands help filter water and provide 12. Many people invest in stocks so they can
homes to many species. The Pine get income from their investment when
Barrens of New Jersey are protected they are older. Blue chip companies are
wetlands. A section of the Pine Barrens generally safer stock investments than
has 43 inches of water on it when it starts others because they maintain stable and
to rain. The rain adds 1 inch of water to reliable growth over time. Dontrell wants
the wetlands every day. to invest in a blue chip company. Each
share costs $21.
Complete the table. Then define a
variable for the amount of time it Complete the table. Then define a
rains and use this variable to write an variable for the number of shares and
expression for the depth of the water. use this variable to write an expression
for the cost of the shares.
Time Raining Depth of Water
(days) (inches) Number of Shares Cost (dollars)
 7  6
14 10
21 13

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