Algebraic to Word Form Expressions

What word phrase can you use to represent "5x + 2"?

• five times the sum of a number x and two

• two times the sum of a number x and five

• a number x times the sum of five and two

• the sum of five times a number x and two

Write a verbal expression for:
2a+6

• 6 more than the product of 2 times a number

• 6 less than the product of 2 times a number

• 6 more than the quotient of 2 and a number

• twice the sum of a number and 6

w increased by 5

• w - 5

• 5w

• w + 5

• w / 5

the difference of 3 times a number and 7

• 3 - 7n

• 3n - 7

• 3n + 7 

• 3 / 7n

How would you write the expression "2x" using words?

• The difference of 2 and x

• The sum of 2 and x

• The product of 2 and x

• The quotient of 2 and x

Write the algebraic expression 6 ( s + 7 ) in words

• Six times an unknown quantity plus seven

• six plus an unknown quantity plus seven

• Six times the sum of an unknown quantity and seven

• Sixdivided by unknown quantity and seven

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the quotient of twenty and a number

• 20/n

• 20-n

• n+20

• n-20

2 times the difference of t and 11

• 2t - 11

• 2(t - 11) 

• 2(t / 11)

• 2 x t - 11

4 divided by the sum of a number and 12

• 4 / n + 12

• 4 / 12n

• 4 / (n + 12) 

• (4 / n) + 12