Math 7 Green/Blue/Black Expressions

These questions must be completed and organized in your notebook. Include titles, number
you are working on and all required work. Box your final answers. Check your work with the
answer key when finished.

If you are interested in moving on the blue or black exercises, complete all highlighted green
or highlighted blue exercises before moving up to the next level.

Green
1. Write an algebraic expression representing each of the following written statements.

Example: You spend $50 per day for x days, plus $230. How much do you spend total?
Answer: 50x + 230

a. Go 40 miles per hour for h hours, then go 70 miles further. How many miles have
you gone?
b. Start with 50 grapes and eat 3 grapes per minute for y minutes. How many
grapes are left?
c. Start with 100 quarters and spend 2 quarters per minute for x minutes. How
many quarters are left?
d. Phoebe is x cm tall.
i. How tall will she be if she grows 3 cm?
ii. How tall will she be if she grows y cm?
iii. How tall was she when she was 9 cm shorter?
iv. How tall was she when she was z cm shorter?

2. Write each expression algebraically. Use the variable x.

a. 7 times the sum of a number and 3
b. 1 less than 2 times a number
c. the difference between a number and 5, divided by 8
d. the sum of a number and 4, multiplied by difference between the number and 6

3. Simplify each expression by combining all like terms.

a. 80x−17x
b. 31+40k+78
c. −35y − 44y

4. Simplify each expression by distributing the coefficient of the parentheses.

a. 9(−2 − 7x)
b. −2(1 + 3x)
 c. 7(a + 4)

5. Evaluate each of the expressions below if the values of a = -2, b = 7 and c = 9.

a. b 2−5+|2 c|
2
c −(−c)
b.
a−b
c. |b−c|−2 c+ a2

6. Simplify each expression by distributing then combining all like terms.

a. −2(6x + 12)− 9x
b. −8−3(−10+3k)
c. 8(a+8)+3(4a−9)
d. −10(5a+3)−9(9a+2)
e. 3(x + 8)− 2(9x + 2)
f. −10(10k + 3)− 10(1 + 9k)
Blue
1. Doug Upp must shovel a pile containing 50 cubic feet of sand into a dump truck. With
1
each scoop, he decreases the size of the pile by cubic feet.
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a. Write the definition of x. Then write an expression for the number of cubic feet
of sand left in the pile after x scoops.
b. How many scoops would it take to have 12 cubic feet of sand left in the pile?
How much sand is remaining after 12 scoops removed?

2. The temperature inside the earth is assumed to increase by about 10 degrees Celsius
for every kilometer beneath the surface. Suppose that the temperature at the surface
is 24 degrees Celsius. Let x be the number of kilometers beneath the surface.
a. Write an expression for the number of degrees at a depth of x kilometers.
b. Find the temperature inside a coal mine 1.3 kilometers deep.
c. Find the depth of the bottom of a well that is drilled from the surface where
there is a temperature of -2 degrees Celsius.

3. Simplify each expression below.

a. 6a(6a+6)+a(1−10a)
b. −9n(3n+6)−3n(6−4n)
c. 3r(r+6)−10(−r+5)
d. −4m(−4m+9)−9m(m) + 29

4. Evaluate each of the expressions using the given values.

a.

b.

c.

d.
Black
1. Simplify each expression below.
2
9x
a.
6x
4
−9 n
b.
9 n2
−6 x 2
c.
−15 x
3
20 m
d. 3
10 m
❑
20 x
e.
15 x 4

2. The value of the determinant

What is the value of x when

( x−1) !
3. What is the value of for x = 100?
( x−3) !

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4. Let x be a positive number and y be its reciprocal. Compute
x+1
+¿
y+ 1
.

5. Choose a number. Triple the number. Add 200. Double the result. Subtract 100. Divide
by 4. Subtract 150% of the original number. What is the value of the result?