Word FOIL: Fluency & Practice

Mathematics
Grade 8
11 questions
~22 mins
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A worksheet focusing on the Word FOIL method for expanding double brackets, designed to develop procedural fluency and reasoning skills.

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Word FOIL: Fluency & Practice

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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) using the FOIL method.
[2 marks]
2.
Calculate the expanded form of: (2a - 3)(a + 7).
[2 marks]
3.
Expand: (x + 2)(x - 4).
[2 marks]
4.
Construct a binomial multiplication that results in: 5x^2 + 11x - 6.
[3 marks]
5.
Expand and simplify: (4x - 1)(x + 6).
[2 marks]
6.
Identify the error in the expansion: (x + 3)(x + 2) = x^2 + 5x + 6.
[2 marks]
7.
Use FOIL to expand: (x + 1)(x - 1).
[2 marks]
8.
Solve for x: (x + 4)(x + 3) = 0. Expand first.
[3 marks]
9.
Find two binomials that multiply to give 3x^2 - 2x - 8.
[3 marks]
10.
Expand: (2x - 5)(3x + 2).
[2 marks]
11.
Challenge: If (ax + b)(cx + d) = 6x^2 + 11x - 10, find possible values for a, b, c, d.
[4 marks]

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Created
1/1/2026
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1/1/2026
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