Verbal Expressions
Parts of an Expression Vocabulary
Combining Like Terms
Substitution
Properties
100

five more than three times a number

3x + 5    or   5 + 3x

100

A letter used in math to represent an unknown. 

Variable

100

Combine Like Terms to simplify the given expression:

                        14x + x + 10

15x + 10

100

Solve x + 23 if x = 45

68

100

Name the property modeled below 

3 x 1 = 3

Identity Property

200

The ratio of 6 and a number

6/x 

200

A number that has no variable attached. 

Constant

200

Combine Like Terms to simplify the given expression:

                     15x + 10 - 3x - 2

12x + 8

200

Solve 15x  when x = 20

300

200

Name the property modeled below:

b + 0 = b

Identity Property

300
3 times the sum of n and 16

3(n+16)

300

A number in front of a variable

Coefficient

300

Combine Like Terms to simplify the given expression:

                  10x+ 4x + x + 10 - 3

10x+ 5x + 7

300

Solve 1.25x when x = 3.4

4.25

300

Name the property modeled below 

4(3 x 1) = 4(1 x 3)

Commutative Property

400

p plus the cube of 2

p + 23

400

All the parts that make up an expression seperated by addition and subtraction. 

Terms

400

Combine Like Terms to simplify the given expression:

               8x+ 23x + x2 - 8x + 13 - 2

   9x+ 15x  + 11

400

Solve  x/16   when x = 104

6.5

400

Name the property modeled below 

4(3 + 1) = 4(3) + 4(1)

Distributive Property

500

five less than the product of ten and w squared

10w2 - 5

500

In the expression below correctly identify all the coefficients, variables, constants, and number of terms. 

               15x2 + 3x + 2 + x + 5

Coefficients:  15,  3, and 1

Constants:  2 and 5

Variable: x

Number of terms: 5

500

Combine Like Terms to simplify the given expression:

          5.5x + 8.2y - 2.63x + 10 - 2y + 8

2.87x + 6.2y + 18

500

Dracula wrote the expression below to represent the number of people in his family based on the number of brothers, b, and sisters, s, that he has.
       
              3b2 - 5s + 2b + s

If Dracula has 4 brothers and 3 sisters, how many people are in his family?


44

500

Name the property modeled below 

4*(3 x 1) = (4 x 3)*1

Associative Property