Algebra
Algebra
es. This was $14 less than twice what she spent for a blouse. How much was the blouse?
2. There are b boys in the class. This is three more than four times the number of girls. How many girls are in the class?
3. The sum of two numbers is 84, and one of them is 12 more than the other. What are the two numbers?
5.
One number is 10 more than another. The sum of twice the smaller plus three times the larger, is 55. What are the two numbers?
6. Divide $80 among three people so that the second will have twice as much as the first, and the third will have $5 less than the second.
7. The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 52. What are the two odd numbers?
8. Julie has $50, which is eight dollars more than twice what John has. How much has John?
9.
Carlotta spent $35 at the market. This was seven dollars less than three times what she spent at the bookstore; how much did she spend
there?
10. There are b black marbles. This is four more than twice the number of red marbles. How many red marbles are there?
11. Janet spent $100 on books. This was k dollars less than five times what she spent on lunch. How much did she spend on lunch?
12. The sum of two numbers is 99, and one of them is 17 more than the other. What are the two numbers?
13. A class of 50 students is divided into two groups; one group has eight less than the other; how many are in each group?
14. The sum of two numbers is 72, and one of them is five times the other; what are the two numbers?
15. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 87; what are they?
16.
A group of 266 persons consists of men, women, and children. There are four times as many men as children, and twice as many women as
children. How many of each are there?
17.
Divide $79 among three people so that the second will have three times more than the first, and the third will have two dollars more than
the second.
18.
Divide $15.20 among three people so that the second will have one dollar more than the first, and the third will have $2.70 more than the
second.
19. Two consecutive odd numbers are such that three times the first is 5 more than twice the second. What are those two odd numbers?
20.
Dalia bought a few swirl marbles and divided it equally among four of her friends and her brother, Jake. While playing, Jake lost 2 marbles
and has only 7 marbles at present. Find how many marbles did Dalia buy in all.
21.
A bus departed from New York at 11 pm with 44 passengers. An hour later, a few passengers got o! at New Jersey. The number of
passengers who boarded the bus at New Jersey were twice the number of passengers who got o! the bus. If the bus has 50 passengers now,
how many passengers got o! at New Jersey?
22.
Clara lends half her collection of formal attires to her sister, Susan. Clara then buys four more attires. If she has 12 attires now, how many
attires did Clara had initially?
23.
The Rock Zoo nurses 37 species of big cats. Recently, a few species of big cats were sponsored to other zoos around the country. The zoo
now nurses only 25 species. How many species of big cats were sponsored to other zoos?
24. Megan and four of her friends plan to go for a long drive. She buys 12 bottles of frappe and a few bottles of orange juice from a supermarket.
The total number of bottles they have are four times that of orange juice bottles. How many bottles of orange juice did Megan buy?
25.
Selena is baking chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for 2 and 1/3 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips. If she has already put in 1 and 1/2
cups into the batter, how many more cups of chocolate chips should be added to the batter?
26.
Rose has two baskets; one contains apples and the other contains bananas. Together, the baskets weigh 5.55 pounds. Find the weight of the
basket of bananas, if the apple basket weighs 2.34 pounds.
27.
A metal manufacturing company reduces the length of a 12.5-inch cylindrical rod, after which the rod measures 7.8 inches. How many inches
was the rod shortened by?
28.
Alice has x dollars in her account. She spends $35.31 to buy medicines for her grandmother. If the balance in her account is $161.23, what
was the amount in her account before purchase?
29.
Clara watches a horror movie in a theater. The movie has a running time of 1 and 2/3 hours. She leaves midway, and misses 5/6 hours of the
movie. How long did Clara watch the movie ?
30.
Jamie paid the rent well past the due date for the months of April, May and June. As a result, he had been charged a total of $75 as late fee.
How much did he pay as late fee per month?
31.
The kindergarten section of Lehigh Valley has 12 classrooms. If each classroom can accomodate 15 kids, how many kids can the kindergarten
section accomodate in all?
32. Juan sells raffle tickets at a charity event for $6 each. How many tickets does he have to sell to make $114?
33. Melanie works as a nanny and is paid $14 per hour. If she puts in 40 hours of work in 7 days, how much does she earn in a week?
34.
The non-fiction section of the Montgomery County Library has 17 racks. If each rack holds 528 books, what is the total collection of non-
fiction books in the library?
35. A chef uses 0.28 pounds of flour to make a batch of chicken nuggets. If he has used 1/7 th of the pack of flour, what is the weight of the pack?
36.
Mr. Darcy makes a stop at the NJ gas station. He fills 14 gallons of gasoline in his Honda Odyssey. The fuel tank is now two-thirds full. What is
the maximum capacity of the fuel tank?
37. Laura’s height is 5/9th of Kevin’s height. If she is 39 inches tall, how tall is Kevin?
38.
Anchorage recorded 16.8 inches of snowfall in December and 1 7/8 of the December's snowfall in the following month. How much did it
snow in January
39.
A truck carries 30 bags of avocados to a local supermarket. If each bag weighs 7.65 pounds, what is the total weight of avocados taken to the
supermarket?
40.
A salesman sold twice as much pears in the afternoon than in the morning. If he sold 360 kilograms of pears that day, how many kilograms
did he sell in the morning and how many in the afternoon?
41.
Mary, Peter, and Lucy were picking chestnuts. Mary picked twice as much chestnuts than Peter. Lucy picked 2 kg more than Peter. Together
the three of them picked 26 kg of chestnuts. How many kilograms did each of them pick?
42. A student chose a number, multiplied it by 2, then subtracted 138 from the result and got 102. What was the number he chose?
43. I chose a number and divide it by 5. Then I subtracted 154 from the result and got 6. What was the number I chose?
44.
One side of a rectangle is 3 cm shorter than the other side. If we increase the length of each side by 1 cm, then the area of the rectangle will
increase by 18 cm2. Find the lengths of all sides.
45. In a bag full of small balls, 1/4 of these balls are green, 1/8 are blue, 1/12 are yellow and the remaining 26 white. How many balls are blue?
Billie thinks of a number, subtracts five, multiplies by three, and then divides by seven. The answer is greater than or equal to six. What is alway
The denominator of a positive fraction is 5 more than the numerator (n). If the fraction is grreater than 3/8, what can you say about the numerato
The sum of the circumference and the diameter of a circle is greater than 18 centimeters. If the diameter is also a whole number of centimeters, w
Alex thinks of a number, doubles it, adds seven, and then divides by three. The answer is less than nine. What is always true about the number A
The numerator of a positive fraction is 8 less than the denominator (d). If the fraction is less than 5/9, what can you say about the denominator?
l to six. What is always true about the number Billie first thought of?
mber of centimeters, what can you say about the diameter of the circle?
72
1. 3x³ - 2x + 7y; where (x = -3, y = -7)
2. 3(x – 4) = 2(–2x + 1)
3. 8q + 6 = 4q – 14
4. 9 =( v + 4) /(v + 12)
6. –3(7p + 5) = 27
7. 14 + 13y = 20y – 21
8. –15b + 21 + 5b = –19
9. (-8-3k)/2 = 11
10. 6 + (3z+1)/8 = 2z + 11
16. 2 + 3c = –2(–2c + 6)
17.
18.
19.
28
36, 48
18, 19
17, 34, 29
25, 27 -81
-124
21
14
7.2
21
41, 58
21, 29
12, 60
28, 29, 30
38, 152, 76
11, 33, 35
1/2(3+4t)≤6(1/3−1t/2)−1/4(2+10t)
−1<4x+2<10
8≤3−5z<12
0≤10w−15≤23
2<1/6−x/2≤4
z<10
t≤0
−3/4<x<2
−1≥z>−9/5
3/2≤w≤19/5
−11/3>x≥−23/3
1. b/36 d - 17
2. p - 66 50 + w
3. 29/h c^84
4. n + 49 92p
5. 3/g f - 54
6. 24 + x 23 / f
7. 18 - m q+ 98
8. 28 + k 27 + t
9. d + 98 h/39
10. 56j
11. y + 86
12. 29^w
13. q - 85
14. f-2
15. t / 37
16. s - 82
17. z x 84
18. v^65
19. 45 + r
20. 52 c
1. five times the sum of m and n
2. the sum of five times m and n
3. the difference of 3 times a number and 8
4. 3 times the difference of a number and 8
5. 5 times the sum of a number and six
6. 8 times the difference of twice a number and another number
7. 3 added to the square of z gives 7
8. A quarter less than 6 times r is 1.
9. Twice the cube of h is 16.
10. Subtracting 3/4 of y from 7 results in 19.
11. The ratio of cube of x to 2 is same as 4.
12. 6 times the square of j equals 24
13. One quarter of the square of z is 6.
14. 11 times g reduced by 3/4 of x gives 2.
15. The cube root of difference of p and 5 is 8.
16. 1 taken away from 2/5 of d equals 7.
17. The difference between the cube of w and 2 is same as 6.
18. Add twice q to three-sevenths corresponds to 4.
19. 6 more than the cube of r gives 33.
20. Triple the square of k added to the product of 5 and 8 gives 42.
21. Combine 5 and the product of 1/2 and t is same as 9
22. 7 multiplied by the cube of x results in 49.
23. Five-sevenths added to the product of 4 and q results 3.
24. The square root of difference between w and 8 is 25.
The length of a rectangle is 4 inches less than the width. Let w represent the width of the rectangle and write an
expression for the length of the rectangle.
Blanca has dimes and quarters in her purse. The number of dimes is 2 less than55 times the number of quarters.
Let q represent the number of quarters. Write an expression for the number of dimes.
Brayden has dimes and quarters in his pocket. The number of dimes is thirteen less than 14 times the number of
quarters. Let q represent the number of quarters, and write an expression for the number of dimes.
w-4
5q-2
14q-13
1. (x + 5)²
2. (2x − 5)²
3. (3x − 2)²
4.
5. (3x – 5y)3
6. (4x – y2)3
8. (2x − 3)³
9. (x + 2)³
13. (x + 5) · (x − 5)