Solving for x
Order of Operations
Riddles
Distributive Property
Evaluate
100
4x = 16
4
100
Simplify the following expression:
62
100
You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
Second Place
100
8(4x+2)
32x + 16
100
Evaluate the expression when x = 4
2x
8
200
x2 = 64
8
200
Simplify the following expression:
5
200
What has 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach?
A deck of cards
200
5(x-3)
5x-15
200
Evaluate the expression when x = -2
6(4+x)
12
300
2(x+4) = 10
1
300
3 + 42 * (3 + 2)
83
300
If you have it, you don’t share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
A secret
300
9(2x-3)
18x-27
300
Evaluate the expression when x =5
2x - x
5
400
500 (2x +3) = 2500
x= 1
400
45
400
While a cat was outside, it started to downpour. The cat couldn’t find any shelter and got completely soaked by the rain, yet not a single hair was wet. How could this be?
It was a hairless cat.
400
-3(-x-10)
3x+30
400
Evaluate the expression when x = -3
3x - 2 - 4x
1
500
4(4x - 2) = 56
x = 4
500
30
500
What begins with an ‘e’ and only contains one letter?
Envelope!
500
2(2y+4) + 3(4x)
4y + 8 + 12x
500
Evaluate the expression when x =5
-x(2x - 4x)
50