Expression Properties Worksheets Grade 6

1. Hana is helping her school's kapa haka group design a stage banner. The banner is rectangular, with a length that is 4 times its width plus an extra 6 meters for decorative borders. The width of the banner is represented by the variable w. Hana needs to write an expression for the total perimeter of the banner using the distributive property. Write an equivalent expression for the perimeter by applying the distributive property to the expression 2(w + 4w + 6).
2. 3² × (8 - 2) ÷ 3 + 15 = ?
3. Use the distributive property to rewrite: 5(2x + 7) = ?

…and 4 more problems

1. Use the distributive property to rewrite: 9(8x + 11)
2. Tane is helping his school's gardening club set up a rectangular herb garden. The length of the garden is 14 meters, and the width is 9 meters. They want to plant a border of flowers around the entire garden. The number of flower plants needed for the border is given by the expression 2(14 + 9). Use the distributive property to rewrite this expression in an equivalent form without parentheses, then calculate how many flower plants they need.
3. (-4)³ ÷ 8 + 2 × (-5) = ?

…and 5 more problems

1. Use the distributive property to rewrite: 15(2x + 5y) = ?
2. (-3)² + 4 × (-2) - 18 ÷ 3 = ?
3. Use the distributive property to rewrite: 9(2x + 7) = ?

…and 4 more problems