This section this textbook explains how to translate the situations described in word problems to equations and provides a variety of examples. Read the chapter and work through the problems. Some examples involved the geometric facts you have learned in Unit 2.
Objective: Solve number and geometry problems by creating and solving a linear equation.
Word problems can be tricky. Often it takes a bit of practice to convert the English sentence into a mathematical sentence. This is what we will focus on here with some basic number problems, geometry problems, and parts problems.
A few important phrases are described below that can give us clues for how to set up a problem.
Using these key phrases we can take a number problem and set up and equation and solve.
Source: Tyler Wallace, http://www.wallace.ccfaculty.org/book/Beginning_and_Intermediate_Algebra.pdf
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