Week 16 – Math 10 – System Problems

This week I learned how to turn system word problems into equations by observing specific word that translate into math’s you first start of by declaring variables in the equation like x and y and then You search for words that mean the equal sign such as equal, is, was, will, are and most verbs. Another thing to know is that some word mean that you switch numbers like “from” an example of this is 10 from a number translates to x-10, another word that switches is “than” which can be showed through the sentence 5 is less then 10 which equals 10-5 then In general you can identify basic math terms. using all of these tools you can use them to identify and form equations and solve the systems with the different ways we have learned before. For money problems the variables we use are how many of each value like dimes or worth 0.1 dollars so the variables are how many and if we had quarter too which or worth 0.25 dollars then if we know how many we have in total which for example is 30 coins we can make and equation “d+q=30” if we know how much value of the dollars we have which is 4.20 dollars we can make the equation 0.1d+0.25=4.20 then we simply solve to find out how many of each coin we have in this situation which is 22 dimes and 8 quarters.

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