Lesson 6.2.

HW: 6-54 to 6-59

Learning Target: Scholars will apply strategies for simplifying expressions to determine if one expression
is greater and will begin finding solutions when expressions are equal.

In
the last section, you figured out how to determine what values of x make one expression greater than
another. In this lesson you will study what can be learned about x when two expressions are equal. As
you work today, focus on these questions:

 What if both sides are equal?

 Is there more than one way to simplify?
 What value(s) of x will make the expressions equal?

6-48. CHOOSING A PRICE PLAN

Sandy works at a bowling alley that currently charges players $3 to rent shoes and $4 per
game. However, his boss is thinking about charging $11 to rent shoes and $2 per game.

1. If a customer rents shoes and plays two games, will he or she pay more with the current price plan
or the new price plan? Show how you know.
2. If the customer bowls 7 games, which price plan is cheaper?

6-49. WILL THEY EVER BE EQUAL?

Sandy decided to represent the two price plans from problem 6-48 with the expressions below,
where x represents the number of games bowled. Then he placed them on the Expression Comparison
Mat shown at right.

Original price: 4x + 3 New price: 2x + 11

 1. Are his expressions correct? Find both the original and new prices when x = 2 and then again
when x = 7 games. Did you get the same prices as you found in problem 6-48?

2. Sandeep then simplified the expressions on the mat. What steps did Sandeep take to simplify the
mat to this point?
3. Sandeep noticed that for a certain number of games, customers would pay the same amount no
matter which price plan his boss used. That is, he found a value of x that will make 4x + 3 = 2x
+ 11. How many games would that customer bowl? What was the price he paid? Explain.
4. The value of x you found in part (c) is called a solution to the equation 4x + 3 = 2x + 11 because
it makes the equation true. That is, it makes both expressions have the same value.

Is x = 6 also a solution? How can you tell?

6-50. SOLVING FOR X

When the expressions on each side of the comparison mat are equal, they can be represented on a mat
called an Equation Mat. Obtain a Lesson 6.2.1 Resource Page and algebra tiles from your teacher. Now
the “=” symbol on the central line indicates that the expressions on each side of the mat are equal.

1. Build the equation represented by the Equation Mat at right on your own mat using algebra tiles.

2. On your paper, record the original equation represented on your Equation Mat.
3. Simplify the tiles on the mat as much as possible. Record what is on the mat after each legal
move as you simplify each expression. What value
of x will make the expressions equal?
 6-54. Consider the Equation Mat at right.

1. Write the original equation represented.

2. Simplify the tiles on the mat as much as possible. What value of x will make the two
expressions equal?

6-55. When Lakeesha solved the equation 3(x + 1) = 12 from problem 6-54, she reasoned this way:

 “Since 3 groups of (x + 1) equals 3 groups of 4, then I know that each group of (x + 1) must
equal 4.”
1. Do you agree with her reasoning? Explain.
2. How can the result of Lakeesha’s reasoning be written?
3. Verify that your answer from problem 6-54 will make the equation you wrote in part (b)
true.

6-56. In problems 6-54 and 6-55, 3(x + 1) could also be written as 3x + 3 by using the Distributive
Property. The expression 3(x + 1) is a product, while 3x + 3 is a sum. For each expression below,
write an equivalent expression that is a product instead of a sum. This process of writing an expression in
the form of factors (multiplication) is called factoring.

4. 75x – 50
5. 32x2 + 48x
6. –40m – 30
7. 63m2 – 54m
6-57. Evaluate the expression 5 + (–3x) for the given x-values.

8. x = 3

9. x =
10. x = –3

6-58. Which fractions below are equivalent? Explain how you know.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

6-59. Simplify each expression.

16. 8.4(7x − 4) + 3.9

17.
Lesson 6.2.1
 6-48. See below:
1. The customer will pay more with the new price plan. Original: $3 + 2($4) =
$11; new: $11 + 2($2) = $15
2. The new price plan is cheaper; original: $3 + 7($4) = $31; new: $11 + 7($2) =
$25
 6-49. See below:
1. When x = 2, original: $11, new: $15; when x = 7, original: $31, new: $25
2. He removed balanced sets of 2x and 3 from both sides.
3. 4 games. $19; $3 + 4($4) = $19 and $11 + 4($2) = $19.
4. No, because when x = 6, the expressions do not have the same value.
 6-50. See below:

2. Different equations are possible, but all should be equivalent to 3x + 2 + (−1) = x

+ 6 + (−1).
3. x = 2
 6-51. See below:
2. 2x + (−x) + 1 − 1= x + (−x) − 3 + 3
3. All the tiles are removed except an x-tile on the left side.
4. x = 0 because there are no tiles left on the right side.

 6-54. See below:

1. 3(x + 1) = 12 or 3x + 3 = 12
2. x = 3

 6-55. See below:

1. Lakeesha’s reasoning is correct.
2. x + 1 = 4
3. 3 + 1 = 4

 6-56. See below:

1. 25(3x − 2)
2. 16x(2x + 3)
3. −10(4m + 3)
4. 9m(7m − 6)
 6-57. See below:
1. x = −4
2. x = 4
3. x = 14

 6-58. A and D are equivalent because they both equal positive 4; B, C, and E are
equivalent because they all equal –4.
 6-59. See below:
1. 58.8x − 29.7

2.