Negatives: Challenge & Extension
Mathematics
Grade 6
11 questions
~22 mins
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About This Worksheet
A worksheet focusing on expanding double brackets involving negative numbers, designed for challenge and extension. It includes procedural questions, reasoning, real-world contexts, and extension problems to deepen understanding of negatives in algebra.
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Negatives: Challenge & Extension
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Practice Questions
Answer all questions. Show your working in the grid spaces provided.
1.
Expand the expression: (3x - 4)(x + 5).
[2 marks]2.
Expand the expression: (2x + 7)(-x - 3).
[2 marks]3.
Calculate the expansion of: (-x + 2)(4x - 5).
[2 marks]4.
Expand and simplify: (5x - 3)(-2x + 4).
[2 marks]5.
Expand: (-x - 2)(x + 3).
[2 marks]6.
If (x + 4)(x - 5) = x^2 - x - 20, what is the expansion of (x - 4)(x + 5)?
[3 marks]7.
Solve and expand: (2x + 3)(-x + 4).
[3 marks]8.
Construct a double bracket expression with a negative term that expands to 6x^2 - 11x + 4. Provide the factors.
[4 marks]9.
Identify and correct the mistake in the expansion: (-x + 3)(x - 2) = -x^2 + 6x - 6.
[3 marks]10.
Expand: (-2x + 5)(-x - 3).
[2 marks]11.
Plot the graph of y = -2x + 4 for x values from -3 to 3 on the grid.
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- 1/1/2026
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- 1/1/2026
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