Miscellaneous
A letter used to represent an unknown number
What is a variable?
x - 12 = 83
What is x = 95?
9x = 27
What is x = 3?
x + 2.3 = 15
What is x = 12.7?
15 less than a number g is 80
What is g - 15 = 80 and g = 95?
The inverse of multiplication
What is division?
7 + x = 13
What is x = 6?
7x = 63
What is x = 9?
6.9m = 75.9
What is 11?
50 is the same as the quotient of p and 10
What is 50 = p/10 and p = 500?
A number in front of a variable that is being multiplied by the variable
What is a coefficient?
k - 23 = 89
What is x = 112?
e/5 = 40
What is x = 200?
2/5x = 4
What is 10?
Mrs. Sawyer has a jar of jelly beans. She found a bag of 25 more jelly beans. Now she has 37 jelly beans in all. Write and solve an equation that can be used to find the number of jelly beans she started with.
What is x + 25 = 37 and x = 12 jelly beans?
Is d = 119 a solution for d/17 = 7?
What is "yes, it is a solution"?
76 = x + 15
What is x = 61?
13 = x/2
What is 26?
66 = 2/3x
What is 99?
Virginia's mother gave her a set of marbles for her birthday. She lost 23 of them. If she has 56 marbles left, how many marbles were in the original set?
What is x - 23 = 56 and x = 79 marbles?
Is x = 29 a solution for 24 = x - 15?
What is "no, it is not a solution"?
133 = x - 12
What is 145?
756 = 21y
What is y = 36?
132.8 = 16m
What is m = 8.3?
Paul has $72 in his wallet. This is three times the money in his pocket. How much money is in his pocket?
What is 3x = 72 and x = $24?