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How Do You Figure Out the Volume of a Solution Using Percents?
A word problem, chemistry, and percent? I know you want to throw your hands in the air and run away from this problem, but please don't. Pay close attention as the instructor helps you unpack this word problem to set up an equation that...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem with an Equation Using Division?
Maria is 12 years old. How do you know that? Follow the teacher as she shows you how to set up and solve this word problem. Don't forget to check your answer.
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How Do You Find the Area of a Rectangle Whose Sides are Binomials?
The teachers uses a diagram to set up her initial equation to reflect the changes being made to a garden plot. She has a good explanation of how she got her equation. Then she works through the steps to solve the equation.
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem by Subtracting Polynomials?
It's not a complicated word problem, but the picture frame just gives the problem a little context. So you are trying to find the difference, which means subtraction. The instructor reviews how to distribute the negative sign to the...
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How Do You Figure Out the Price of a Discounted Item?
Trying to figure out how much something costs that is discounted? There are a few steps to get your answer so follow along and watch as the instructor takes you through the process.
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What is the Domain of a Relation?
The teacher illustrates several ways to look at what the domain is in a set of numbers. Input, output, table, graphs, and diagrams are a few of the ways in which she illustrates the meaning of domain.
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How Do You Find the Scale of a Model?
A model car, a life size car, now compare their sizes. Hmmm. Ok, set up a proportion and then figure out a ratio, and now you can express the relationship in terms of scale. Watch this video and the teacher will demonstrate just how to...
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How Do You Solve and Graph Inequalities from a Word Problem?
Are you befuddled after reading this word problem? Not only is it a word problem but there are two variables, and not only does it have two variables, but it is an inequality. Don't pull your hair out! Take a deep breath and watch this...
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How Do You Use Unit Rates to Compare Rates?
Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes! Where shall we buy some cupcakes? There are two stores selling cupcakes and we would like to know which one has the better deal. The instructor demonstrates how to find a unit rate for the cupcakes at each...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem by Taking a Monomial to a Power?
You've got a cube and a monomial for the length of a side, how do you find the volume? Oh, and the monomial expression has exponents. Just use the formula for finding the volume of a cube and use the properties of powers to multiply the...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem By Writing an Inequality?
An inequality in a word problem? And there's a fraction too?! As if word problems weren't hard enough! You can do this, just follow along as the instructor explains each step in solving this word problem.
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem Where You Multiply Fractions and Work Backwards?
Could anyone really eat 15 feet of a sub sandwich in one day? That's how much this math problem says he ate. He actually started out with a bigger sub sandwich. How big was it to start? The instructor uses a table to illustrate how you...
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How Do You Figure Out a Percent of Change?
First identify the parts of the word problem. Next identify the variable, decide what formula to use, figure out the quantities, insert the quantities into the equation, and now solve. There are many parts to solving this word problem so...
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How Do You Write the Equation of a Line in Slope-Intercept Form from a Word Problem?
There will be two variables in this equation since a straight line means a linear equation. Writing the equation in slope-intercept form means there is an x-value and a y-value. So let's watch this video and see what it takes to use the...
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How Do You Figure Out Whether a Percent of Change is an Increase or a Decrease?
Another word problem to figure out. Well, first off you are trying to figure out the percent of something and this means your formula will be a proportional equivalent. Once you have the known terms in the correct places you can figure...
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How Do You Determine Whether Values in a Table are Proportional?
Here's a real-world problem to figure out. Are the gardens all similarly proportional in the number of vegetable plants to the number of flowers? The instructor sets up a table of the values of each garden. She then writes each set as a...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using an Exponential Function?
In six days Tina gets exponentially better at the number of times she can jump rope. Let's create an equation and see how many times Tina can jump rope on the sixth day. First identify the variables. Next make a table, then plug in the...
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How Do You Write and Use a Prediction Equation?
Goodness! There are a lot of steps in getting to the final solution in this word problem. Watch this video and follow along as the instructor explains each and every step. There's a scatter plot, a line of fit, writing an equation based...
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How Do You Find the Rate of Change Between Two Points in a Table?
Given a table of values, find the rate of change. First, set up the given table, and identify the values that will be used to calculate the change. Of course, there is a formula. So use the formula to solve the problem. Still confused?...
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How Do You Figure Out the Time Traveled if You Know Distance and Speed?
Yes, it's a word problem, but you know the formula for distance, d=rt. The word problem here gives you two values so all you have to do is plug them into the correct place and solve. Don't forget to use the division property of equality...
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How Do You Write and Solve an Equation From a Word Problem?
How much does Mariana get paid? This word problem is not so simple because Mariana gets paid two different rates for different numbers of hours babysitting. So, there are a few steps to solving this problem. The instructor will define...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem by Multiplying Binomials?
Find the area of several rectangles that have been given monomial values. When the rectangles are put together, the sides are added together to form a binominal value. Now use the formula for area to multiply the two binomials. Use the...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using an AND Compound Inequality?
This looks like a big word problem. There are four known values and you have to find one unknown value. How are you going to write out this inequality to solve it? Do you know what a compound inequality is? An inequality with an 'AND' or...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using Two Equations?
Two equations and two unknown variables in a word problem. Don't cry! Follow the instructor through these nine steps to find the solutions. Identify the variables, write the equations, solve for one of the variables, use the substitution...