Class 8 Maths Worksheet: Linear Equations
The method (Letters one side, numbers the other): Open brackets: a(x − b) = ax − ab. Fractions: multiply both sides by the LCM of the denominators — x/3 + x/4 = 14 → 4x + 3x = 168. Move letter terms to one side and numbers to the other (change the sign when a term crosses =), then divide. Word problems: consecutive numbers are n, n + 1, n + 2 …; ages in y years are age + y.
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- 1.Solve: 4x + 2 = 2x + 10. What is x?
- 2.A father is 11 years older than his son. In 6 years, the father will be twice as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- 3.Solve: 3(p − 4) = p + 16. What is p?
- 4.Solve: 5(x − 5) = 2x + 2. What is x?
- 5.Solve: 4(p − 2) = p + 16. What is p?
- 6.Solve: t/6 + t/5 = 88. What is t?
- 7.Solve: 9x + 11 = 8x + 18. What is x?
- 8.Solve: 7m + 9 = 3m + 65. What is m?
- 9.A father is 28 years older than his son. In 7 years, the father will be three times as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- 10.Solve: 9p + 4 = 8p + 9. What is p?
- 11.Solve: 3(t − 1) = t + 17. What is t?
- 12.Solve: y/2 + y/4 = 6. What is y?
- 13.A father is 12 years older than his son. In 7 years, the father will be twice as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- 14.Solve: 5(y − 1) = 3y + 1. What is y?
- 15.A father is 14 years older than his son. In 6 years, the father will be twice as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- 16.Solve: 5t + 18 = t + 38. What is t?
- 17.The sum of two consecutive whole numbers is 19. What is the smallest of them?
- 18.Solve: 3x + 10 = x + 30. What is x?
- 19.Solve: t/6 + t/3 = 18. What is t?
- 20.Solve: m/4 + m/5 = 36. What is m?
- 21.The length of a rectangle is 2 cm more than its width. Its perimeter is 32 cm. What is its width (in cm)?
- 22.Solve: p/4 + p/3 = 14. What is p?
- 23.A father is 15 years older than his son. In 5 years, the father will be twice as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- 24.The sum of four consecutive whole numbers is 202. What is the largest of them?
- 25.Solve: y/5 + y/4 = 27. What is y?
- 26.The sum of three consecutive whole numbers is 48. What is the largest of them?
- 27.Solve: 4(x − 2) = x + 1. What is x?
- 28.Solve: m/2 + m/6 = 16. What is m?
- 29.Solve: m/4 + m/2 = 18. What is m?
- 30.The sum of three consecutive whole numbers is 42. What is the largest of them?
- 31.The sum of two consecutive whole numbers is 105. What is the smallest of them?
- 32.Solve: y/4 + y/5 = 9. What is y?
- 33.Solve: 5t + 5 = 3t + 21. What is t?
- 34.Solve: 4(m − 5) = 3m + 1. What is m?
- 35.A father is 24 years older than his son. In 2 years, the father will be three times as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- 36.Solve: 4m + 19 = m + 58. What is m?
- 37.Solve: 6(n − 2) = 2n + 12. What is n?
- 38.Solve: 4y + 15 = 3y + 20. What is y?
- 39.Solve: 3(x − 3) = x + 3. What is x?
- 40.Solve: 7m + 17 = 6m + 32. What is m?
Answer key
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- 5
- 14
- 9
- 8
- 240
- 7
- 14
- 7
- 5
- 10
- 8
- 5
- 3
- 8
- 5
- 9
- 10
- 36
- 80
- 7
- 24
- 10
- 52
- 60
- 17
- 3
- 24
- 24
- 15
- 52
- 20
- 8
- 21
- 10
- 13
- 6
- 5
- 6
- 15
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