Jeopardy Word Problems Order of Operations Translating Verbal
Jeopardy Word Problems Order of Operations Translating Verbal Phrases Evaluating Variable Expressions Powers 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500
100 An old-fashioned bathtub weighs 236 pounds. A gallon of water weighs 8. 33 pounds. Write a variable expression to find the weight of the tub and w gallons of water.
200 Tickets for a concert are $25 each. You also have to pay a handling fee of $3 per ticket. Write and evaluate a variable expression to find the total cost of purchasing 8 tickets.
300 An attendant at a snack bar makes a $1 commission for every bottle of juice he sells and $1. 50 commission for every hamburger that he sells. Write a variable expression to find the total amount of commission that he makes selling j juice bottles and h hamburgers. Find his commission for selling 5 bottles of juice and 3 hamburgers.
400 A waitress receives a wage of $4. 50 an hour plus she earns tips. Write a variable expression to find how much money she earns for h hours of work with t dollars in tips. Then, find out how much money she earned in one night when she worked 7 hours and earned $45 in tips.
500 A group of friends want to go to a movie and to the zoo. A ticket to the zoo costs $7. 50 and a ticket to the movie costs $5. 50. Write a variable expression to find the total cost of z zoo tickets and m movie tickets. Find the total cost if all 12 of the friends go to the movie but only 9 go to the zoo.
100 8 + 15 ÷ 3 x 2
200 26 + 19 2 3
300 6 x [(44 – 9) ÷ 5]
400 18 – 3 x [(16 + 2) ÷ 6]
500 38 – 3(4 + 4) (56 ÷ 8)
100 A number decreased by 18
200 The sum of a number and 5
300 Write the verbal description for 9 x
400 The quotient of 24 and a number
500 Write the verbal description for ¼ x
100 xy when x = 4 and y = 12
200 x ( y – 6) when x = 7 and y = 15
300 5(x + y) when x = 4 and y = 8
400 3 x – 5 y when x = 7 and y = 4
500 6 x x–y when x = 7 and y = 5
100 Write the product as a power: 5 x 5 x 5 x 5
200 Describe the power in 2 words: 7
300 Evaluate the power: 3 4
400 Evaluate the expression: 2 36 ÷ (9 – 7)
500 Evaluate the expression: 2 (9 – 4) + 12
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