Ay worksheet | @ A bosket had x apples at first. Some rotten apples in the basket were thrown away. ‘Write the algebraic expressions in the table to show the number of apples left in the basket. Number of apples in the basket Number of apples at first x Throw away 1 apple “Throw away 2 apples Throw away 5 apples Throw away 8 apples @ Fillin the blanks. There are 6 bags. Each bag has b cookies. How many cookies are there altogether? *© Write an algebraic expression for each statement. Statement Algebraic Expression (a) ‘Sum of nand 3 is Tl more than b (cd) One-fifth added to j a 4 less than p = Subtract 5 from a Product of a number, s, and 7 (g) Two times as many as t (hl Anumber, g, divided by 9 {i) 12 groups of y o A number, r, decreased by 4 {k) One-quarter of fh w Thrice of w (m) Add 29 to kand then divide the result by 3 {n) Subtract 17 from mand then divide the result by 9 (ol Subtract 17 from half of a number, dName: Class: Date: Me Workshest 2 Write an algebraic expression for each of the following. @ There are 3 times as many boys as girls in a class. If there are s boys, how many girls are there? @ The base of a triangle is bcm. Its height is 10 cm. Find the area of the triangle.© Jane is 23 years old now. Her mother is 2p years older than she is. How old will her mother be when Jane is 37 years old? John completed a race in 160 seconds. He was wseconds slower than Martin How long did Martin take to complete the race?© The usual price of a T-shirt was $m. Roy bought a T-shirt at a discount of $4. How much did he pay for the T-shirt in terms of m? © John paid $xfor a pen and a ruler. The pen cost $3 more than the ruler. What was the cost of a ruler? Give your answer in terms of x.The ratio of Ali's height to David's height is h: 7. David is 175 cm tall. How tall is Ali in terms of Hh? © Andy took (w+ 12) min to complete a jigsaw puzzle. Ben took 10 min more than Andy to complete the jigsaw puzzle. What was the total time taken by the two boys to complete the jigsaw puzzle?Name: Class: Date: iRartaZam) Simplifying Algebr icy Expressions, Ay worksheet 3 © Simplify the following algebraic expressions. T la) y+y+y (b) 3¢+2c-¢ (c) e+e+3e+0e (d) 7f+ 2f+ 3f+ 8f le) Td+d-2d+d (fl 17g-29+4g- 6g (g) 18h-h+4h+h (h) 9m+2m-m+3m L —_ () 19p+p+p+p-5p (29+ 2n-7n+ 5n-6n© Simplity the following algebraic expressions. “(@) c+ 3c+2c45 le) 36+2-b+7 | | | | | | () 4q+q+3q-7 (d) 6x+2x+3 43x (e) 2y+9-2y+9y “(f) 27-18 +7u-4u | | | | | | | | | | | — (Q) 18+ J+ 4/4 7401 (h) 19k+ 8k-k+7-4 () 19749 47-157 UW) 29+24s-7s +5s-6Name: Class: Date: Ay Worksheet: 4 @ Find the value of each expression when x= 3. (a) 24x (b) x+18 | | | | fd x-1 d) 19-x | | Hel 9x (f) 6x41 | lg) 27-4x (hh 7x19 { aX lay xe9 m3 [o> | | 4x 4x iw = W See | |@ Find the value of 10b - 8b- 9 + 46+ 7 when b= 10. 6x. © Find the value of 2" when x= 7. © Wwhatis the value of ays tn when y= 5? © Whats the volue of 9k Sk+ 3 when k= 4? *Name: Class: Date: Be Worksheet 5 Solve the word problems. @ There are z rows of desks with chairs in a classroom. There are 5 desks with chairs in each row. When all the students are seated, 3 desks are not occupied {a) Express the total number of students in the class in terms of z. (b) Find the number of students in the class when z= 8. @ Mrs smith had $7t left after buying 6 cakes at $3 each. (a) How much money did Mrs Smith have at first in terms of t? {b) If t= 5, how much money did she have at first?© Marys height is hem. John is 9 cm taller than Mary. Benny is 4 cm shorter than Mary (a) Find the total height of the 3 children in terms of h. (b) If h=142, find the total height of the 3 children.© Alice's mass is a kg. Bethany’s mass is 2a kg. Caili’s mass is (a+ 3) kg, (a) What is the average mass of the 3 girls in terms of a? (b) If a= 24, what is their average mass?© The perimeter of a rectangular whiteboard is 6p m. The breadth of the whiteboard is 2m. (a) Whatis the length of the whiteboard in terms of p? (b) If p= 2, what is the length of the whiteboard? 2m@ Sieve bought 6 packets of cheese. He gave the shopkeeper Sw and received a change of $2. (a) How much did one packet of cheese cost in terms of w? (b) If w= 50, what was the cost of one packet of cheese?@ Paul had 7 packets of cookies at first. There were k cookies in each packet. His father gove him 18 more cookies. Paul and his 3 siblings shared all the cookies equally among themselves. (a) How many cookies did each person receive? (b)_ If k= 6, how many cookies did each person receive?Name: Class: Date: Ba Workshest 6 Solve the word problems. @ fof a number is 4y. What is the number in terms of y? If y= 12, what is the number? @ The overage of 3 numbers is llw. Two of the numbers are Sw and 31 If w= 4, find the third number.© The table shows the prices of different types of files sold at a bookshop. Type of file Price per file Box Sif+ 3) Clip sif+1) Ring Sf {a} Peiyi bought 2 box files and 4 clip files. How much money did she spend altogether? (b]_ Dinesh paid $22 for 2 ring files and some clip files. How many clip files did he buy if aring file cost $2?Name: Class: Date: REZ | Solving Equations, Ay Worksheet % Solve the word problems. @ Alex has $a. David has $20 less than Alex. (a) How much does David have in terms of a? {b) How much money does Alex have if David has $60?@ Abag costs $g. it costs six times as much as a T-shirt (a) How much does a T-shirt cost in terms of 9? (b) If the cost of the T-shirt is $8, what is the cost of the bag? so inName: Class: Date: BeWlorksheet 8 Solve the word problems. @ The total mass of Agnes, Betty and Cheryl is 152 kg. Agnes is as heavy as Betty. Cheryl's mass is 34 kg and Agnes’ mass is 6 kg (a) Express the total mass of Agnes and Betty in terms of b. (b) Find Betty's mass.© Ryyin is nyears old now. She is 3 years older than Zaleha. (a) What will their total age be in 2 years’ time in terms of n? (b) Find their total age in 2 years’ time if Zaleha is 12 years old now.© Alex, Benjamin and Calvin have a total of 54 cookies. Alex has x cookies. Benjamin has twice as many cookies as Alex. Calvin has 3 times as many cookies as Alex. How many cookies does Alex have?© A swordfish cost $y. A goldfish cost 3 times as much as a swordfish. An angelfish cost $2 less than a goldfish. Peter bought a swordfish, a goldfish and an angeltish. The total cost of the 3 fish was $19. What was the cost of a swordfish?Name: Class: Date: Le worksheet 9 Solve the word problems. @ Jane had 29 sweets left after filling up Box A and Box B with sweets. Box A had m sweets and Box B had 18 sweets more than Box A. (a) How many sweets were there in Box Bin terms of m? (b) Box B had 49 sweets. How many sweets did Jane have at first?© Mobel has 3rstickers. Clement has (r+ 2) stickers more than Mabel. Sue has 15 stickers. Mabel has twice as many stickers as Sue. How many stickers do they have altogether?Name: Class: Date: a& Problem Solving, ae @ Ms Chong has 35 coins in her purse. These are fifty-cent, twenty-cent and ten-cent coins, There are d twenty-cent coins and twice as many ten-cent coins as fifty-cent coins. ‘She has fewer twenty-cent coins than fifty-cent coins. (a) How many fity-cent coins does she have in terms of d? (b)_ If d= 8, what is the total value of the 35 coins in dollars and cents?© Meijun had x. Jane had 3 times as much money as Meijun. After Jane had spent $110 and Meijun had spent $30, they each had an equal amount of money left. How much money did Jane have at first?Name: Class: Date: Self-Test; (Duration: 30-45 minutes) Section A: Multiple-Choice Questions (1 mark each) 20 For each question, four options are given. Choose the correct answer and write its number (1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided. @ Express 9 + 14¢- 5 -7c+ 18 in the simplest form. Ml) 4-7 (2) 4+21¢ (3) 22+2Ic (4) 22+7¢ ( ) @© Ravi weighs m kg. Navin is 10 kg heavier than Ravi. What is the total mass of Ravi and Navin? 0) 10mkg (2) 12mkg (3) (m+ 20) kg (4) (2m +10) kg { ) © Find the value of y+ a =3 when y=5 ) & (2) 14 (3) 18 (4) 24 (4@© Janice has $x. May has 4 times as much money as Janice. Siti has $25 more than May. How much money does Siti have in terms of x? () $4+x) (2) $125 +x) (3) $125 +4x) (4) $1100 + x) ( ) © david is b years old now. His father is 32 years older than he is. What was their total age 8 years ago in terms of b? fl) (2b+ 16) years (2) (2b+ 24) years (3) (2b + 32) years (4) (2b +48) years ( Section B: Short-Answer Questions (8 marks) For each question, write your answer in the space provided. The number of marks available is shown in brackets [ _] at the end of each question. © Simplity sy+9-2y+3y-4 @ Find the value of 22=" it a= 8 x© Lily had Srat first. She spent half of the money on dinner and bought 4 muffins at $2.50 each. How much money had she left? Express your answer in terms of r Ans: $ —_[2] © Alan's mass is 23 kg. Benny is b times as heavy as Alan. Chung is 3b kg lighter than Benny. What is the total mass of the boys? Express your answer in terms of b. Ans; ——___ kg [2]@® Mrs Chen sold (5 + n) muffins on Monday. She sold n more muffins on Tuesday than on Monday. Altogether, she sold 40 muffins on the two days. How many muffins did Mrrs Chen sell on Tuesday? Ans: oaBAsection c: Long-Structured Questions (7 marks) Show your working clearly. The number of marks available is shown in brackets [ ] at the end of each part-question. @ A8CDis a rectangle and CDE is an isosceles triangle. The length of the rectangle is 4p cm and its breadth is (p + 2) cm. A 8 (ep+2)em p+2iem D ~ c : pcm (a) Find the perimeter of the shaded part. Give your answer in the simplest form in terms of p. (b}_ If p= 3, find the perimeter of the shaded part. A (c) rE rT] fb) mt@ Atfirst, Hamid and Mark had $47 each. The two boys then spent some money and saved the rest. Hamid saved $3y more than Mark. Altogether, they spent $15y. (a) How much did Hamid save? (b)_ How much did Mark save? Give your answers in terms of y. Ans: (a) $ —_____[2] Sn eee eeeName: Class: Date: : a By Challenge © (Let's Reason Mathematically) Sulin creates number patterns as shown below. Ast row 4 1[4 2nd row 5 215 3rd row 36 316 loth row n3 10 | 13 Tith row 124 N 4 12th row 135 2 [15 (a) Write down the number pattern for the 21st row. (b) The number pattern for the nth row is shown below. Express ain terms of n. a n_|n+3 (c}_ The value of ain the nth row is 289. Find the value of n.Parent; Peintens, 23 Learning Outcomes By the end of this chapter, your child should be able to do the following. ‘* Use letters to represent unknown numbers and write a simple algebraic expression in one variable for a given situation * Simplify simple algebraic expressions * Evaluate simple algebraic expressions by substitution * Solve word problems involving simple algebraic expressions * Form and solve simple linear equations and make explicit link with model drawing Teach-At-Home Tips Parents can construct word problems and solve them together with your children. Step Step 2: Step Step Step 1 e 4: Parent begins a word problem with a letter to represent an unknown number. Mary buys x stickers. Ask your child to roll a dice to get a number. Use the n sentence to continue the word problem. lumber to write a Mary buys x stickers. . Her sister gives Mary another 6 stickers. Y to form a simple algebraic expression. Ask your child t. Mary buys x stickers. Her sister gives Mary another 6 stickers. Sue gives Mary (x + 5) stickers. Parent rolls the dice to get a number. Form a question to substitute for x. Mary buys x stickers. Her sister gives Mary another 6 stickers. Sue gives Mary (x + 5) stickers. }: Ask your child to roll a dice again. Use this number and the unknown letter (0 use this algebraic expression to write the third sentence to continue the word problem. and use the number Ifx = 4; how many stickers does Mary have now? : Parent and child solve the word problem together.