Multiply and divide rational numbers:word problems
Multiply and divide rational numbers:word problems
What you'll learn
- Identify the unknown variable in a word problem and represent it with a letter symbol at least 8 out of 10 times.
- Translate a one-step word problem into a corresponding one-step algebraic equation with 80% accuracy.
- Solve one-step addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations derived from word problems and check their answers by substitution with 90% accuracy.
- Explain in writing how the solution to a one-step equation relates to the original word problem context in at least 3 out of 4 word problems.
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