WORD PROBLEMS

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WORD PROBLEMS
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• READ THE PROBLEM 3 or more times
• LAYOUT OR SETUP Get a feel for the problem
• What kind is it?
• What are they asking me to do?
• BUILD EQUATION based on the situation
• 2nd sentence
• Assemble the pieces according to the wording of
  the problem
• Equation is the mathematical equivalent of a
  sentence

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• SOLVE using Algebraic steps
• FIND x
• Use x to answer the question being asked
• BE SURE TO FIND ALL ANSWERS TO THE PROBLEM
• CHECK ANSWER(S) to see they fit the situation
• Checking the equation will not catch all errors

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START WITH BASIC PROBLEMS

• 1. Ten times a number, increased by 8, is
• 58. Find the number.
• 2. After he lost 14 pounds, Homer weighed
• 190 pounds. Find Homers original weight.

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• The cost of adding a garage to a home is 5 times
  as much as the cost of painting the house. If
  the garage addition costs 15,000, find the cost
  of painting the house.
• 4. After 2.5 feet had been cut from a piece of
  lumber, there were 9.5 feet left. What was the
  original length of the piece of lumber?

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Lets Step It Up

• 5. A supermarket had a one day sale on
  Pepperidge Farm cookies. It sold three times as
  many packages of chocolate-chip cookies as
  oatmeal, and twice as many fudge-almond as
  oatmeal. If the supermarket sold 600 packages in
  one day, how many packages of each did it sell?

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• The number of square feet of lawn Mitch can mow
  is described with the equation
• y 700x 50, where y is the number of
  square feet of lawn and x is the mowing time in
  hours. How many square feet can Mitch mow in 1.5
  hours?

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• 7. Julia mows lawns during the summer. On the
  weekends, she gets 59 per lawn. On the weekdays,
  she gets 49 per lawn. If Julia mowed 21 lawns
  and earned 1099, how many lawns did she mow on
  the weekdays and how many on the weekends?

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• 8. Jose sells cars for a living. He earns 200 a
  week plus 12 of each sale he is credited with.
  How much does Jose earn when he has 30,000 in
  sales?

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• 9. Leilas expected test score can be described
  by the equation s 10h 50. In this equation,
  s is the score and h is the number of hours she
  studies for the test. What score can she expect
  when she studies 3 hours for a test?

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• 10. Carmella is taking a scenic drive through
  the country to unwind. She is traveling 50 mph
  for 4.5 hours. How far does she drive during her
  road trip?