Elementary Algebra Review Part 15
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Lesson Description:
Writing word problems as algebraic expressions, drawing pictures from descriptions, and problem-solving to solve the problem.
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Questions answered by this video:
- How do you write word problems as algebraic expressions?
- How can you solve word problems by drawing pictures and writing expressions?
- If a 14-foot board is cut into two pieces, and one piece is x feet long, how long is the other piece?
- If one angle is x degrees, how do you express the measure of its complement in terms of x?
- If one angle of a triangle is x degrees and a second angle is (3x + 4) degrees, what is the measure of the third angle?
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Staff Review
This lesson explains some techniques in figuring out how to write expressions for word problem descriptions of real-life scenarios. The explanations of how to think about solving these word problems. This is a very necessary tutorial for solving future word problems in Algebra.
