Vocabulary
This is the number being multiplied by a variable.
What is a coefficient?
In 7x, identify the coefficient.
What is 7?
what does the expression 5c represent?
what is 5 times a number?
If x is the number of notebooks and each costs $3, what does 3x represent?
What is the total cost of notebooks?
How many terms are in 8x+1
what is 2?
This is a number or variable multiplied together in an expression.
What is a factor?
in 4x+9, identify the terms.
what are 4x and 9?
what does the coefficient tell us in an expression?
What is how many times the variable is multiplied?
If you earn $10 plus $5 per hour, which expression represents your pay?
What is 5h+10?
identify the coefficient in 9y+4.
what is 9?
These are parts of an expression separated by addition or subtraction.
What are terms?
in 6y, identify the factors.
what are 6 and y?
what does the constant term represent?
What is a fixed amount?
In 4x+2, what does the 2 represent in a real-world situation?
what is a starting or fixed amount?
identify the factors in 6a.
what are 6 and a.
In the expression 5x+3, this is the constant term.
What is 3?
in 3x+2y, now many terms are there?
what is 2?
what does x+4 mean in words?
what is a number increased by 4?
If y is miles driven and gas costs $2 per mile, interpret 2y.
What is the cost of gas based on miles driven?
explain what the expression 2x+5 could represent in real life.
What is starting amount plus a repeated amount?
The part of an expression that can change value.
What is a variable?
in 10m, identify the variable.
what is m?
what does having multiple terms in an expression mean?
what is more than one quantity being combined?
A gym charges a $25 fee plus $15 per month. Write and interpret the expression.
What is 15m+25, where 25 is the fee and 15m is the monthly cost?
Write an interpret an expression with 2 terms, 1 variable and one constant.
what is ex. 3x+7?