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Solving simple linear equations.
- Solving Equations for Variables [02/03/2002]
How do you solve the following equation for (M) and then (m)? k = M-m/
- Solving Equations that Equal Zero [02/26/1997]
How do you solve an equation like (5x+10)(7x-2) = 0?
- Solving Equations to Find Profit [8/10/1996]
You buy A and B for 40,000 Won; sell A for a 0.3 percent and B at a 0.2
percent discount. You profit 5000 Won - what was the original price of A?
- Solving Equations with Square Roots [03/28/2003]
When solving x + 1 = sqrt(x + 3), we can square both sides then solve
the equation; however, we get an extra solution that doesn't work. Why?
- Solving for b [05/10/2000]
When solving 10 + 2*sqrt(b) = 0 we get b = 25, but when we insert 25 into
the equation, we end up with 20 = 0. What are we doing wrong?
- Solving for X [01/13/1997]
Solve for x in 3(x*x)-2x+2 = 2/(3(x*x)-2x+1).
- Solving for x [1/23/1996]
I need help on this problem: x/x+4 = x+1/x+8
- Solving for x with Fractions [9/9/1996]
How do I solve this: 5/2 = 3/2 - x ?
- Solving Inequalities [08/31/1998]
How do you graph these inequalities...?
- Solving Inequalities [12/10/1996]
How do you solve 6(m-4)-2(m+2) is less than 7(m-4)-6 ?
- Solving Inequalities with Absolute Values [09/16/1998]
Can you explain two different ways to solve inequalities with absolute
- Solving Linear Equations [03/18/1997]
What are the steps to solve linear equations?
- Solving Linear Equations without PEMDAS [08/13/2002]
Is there a linear equation that can be solved using both the PEMDAS
order of operations and NOT using the order of operations and still
come out with the same answer?
- Solving Linear Inqualities [06/10/1999]
How can I solve 9 <= 2x-1 <= 15 for x?
- Solving Literal Equations [09/08/2001]
I can do equations fine with just numbers, but doing them literally with
letters is confusing me.
- Solving Pairs of Equations by Substitution [11/26/1997]
x + 3y = - 5; 3x - 2y = 7.
- Solving Quadratic Equations [03/07/1997]
A rectangle has an area of 80 square units. Its length is one more than
three times its width. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
- Solving Quadratic Equations [9/14/1996]
3x^2 + x - 14 = 0? x^2 - 6x + 8 = 0?
- Solving Simple Equations [02/23/1998]
Equations like 3(30+s) = 4(s+19) and others following the same form.
- Solving Single Variable Equations [02/02/1997]
How do you solve equations like 4g + 7 = 35?
- Solving Systems of Equations Graphically and Algebraically [05/01/1998]
Graphing the system of equations y = -x and y = 2x, and indicating how
many solutions it has.
- Solving Systems of Linear Equations [02/09/1999]
Can you help me solve simultaneous equations?
- Solving x-(-16) = 0 [02/17/1998]
How do you solve: x- -16 = -16?
- Solving -X = 3 [10/26/1998]
How do you solve -X = 3? How can a negative equal a positive?
- Speed of Two Trains [7/31/1996]
A train leaves Chicago for Indianapolis, 216 km away, at 9 a.m. One hour
later, a train leaves Indianapolis for Chicago.... find the speed of each
- Square Roots in Equations [06/12/1997]
When do you take the square root in: 2(x-4)^2 - 3 = 13 ?
- Step-by-step Solution of Equation in One Variable [05/13/1998]
Commutative, associative, distributive, and other laws of arithmetic
applied to solve w in the equation 2 - 2(w + 6) = 2(w + 5).
- Straight Line on the Graph [09/10/1998]
Let f(x) = ae^(kx) where a>0 and k are constants. Show that the graph of
y = ln(f(x)) is a straight line.
- Strategy: Finding a Formula [11/14/1997]
Jill needs three pieces of lumber a total of 27 ft. long for a dog pen.
The second piece has to be 4 ft. longer than the first and the third 4
ft. longer than the second...
- Substituting Parameters for Numbers [11/29/2001]
I don't know what to do with both sides of the equation 17.20X/100 = X-
- Substituting Values for Variables [9/2/1996]
I know that a = -3/4 and b = -1/3. What's 2a+7b-ab/7a squared?
- Substitution Method [01/08/2002]
Here is the problem: 2x+y = 3, 3x+2y = 5.
- Subtracting as Adding a Negative [01/14/2002]
My teacher says to think of the question as a negative number, not a
minus number, but I don't know how he's doing that.
- Subtracting One Equation from Another [05/30/2001]
Why can you subtract one equation from another and get something
meaningful that you can use to solve the equations?
- Subtracting Taxes from Earnings [11/21/1995]
Customers at Flo's Meat Market must pay 6% state sales tax. One day Flo
takes in $2650, including tax. How much of the $2650 does Flo have left
after sending the tax money to the state?
- Summing Three Consecutive Numbers [12/03/1998]
How many natural numbers from 10 to 40 can also be written as a sum of
three consecutive natural numbers?
- Sum of a Number and Its Reciprocal [01/28/2002]
The sum of a number and its reciprocal is 5 1/5. What is the number?
- Sum of the Angles in a Star [09/21/1999]
How can I find the sum of the measures of the five acute angles that make
up a star?
- Sum of the Digits of Multiples of 9 [04/08/2001]
Why do the digits of nine times a single-digit number add up to 9?
- The Sum of Two Numbers is 20... [11/03/1997]
Twice one number is 4 more than four times the other. Find the numbers.
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