Word Problems My Favorite

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Word Problems!!!? My Favorite ?

• Keys to succeed!

Draw a picture
Write down important information
Define your variable!!
Put the info in a chart if you can
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Traveling

• 1) A driver averaged 50mph on the highway and
  30mph on the side roads. If the trip o 185 miles
  took a total of 4 hours and 30 minutes, how many
  miles were on the highway.

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• 2) The Yankee Clipper leaves the pier at 900am
  at 8 knots (nautical miles per hour). A half hour
  later, The Riverboat Rover leaves the same pier
  in the same direction traveling at 10 knots. At
  what time will The Riverboat Rover overtake The
  Yankee Clipper?

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3) A pair of hikers, 18 miles apart, begin at the
same time to hike toward each other. If one
walks at a rate that is 1 mph faster than the
other, and if they meet 2 hours later, how fast
is each one walking?
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Weighted Averages

• 4) You have 32 coins made up of dimes and
  nickels. You have a total of 2.85. How many of
  each type of coin do you have?

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• 5) The Quick Mart has two kinds of nuts. Pecans
  sell for 1.55 per pound and walnuts sell for
  1.95 per pound. How many pounds of walnuts must
  be added to 15 pounds of pecans to make a mixture
  that sells for 1.75 per pound.

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6) A druggist must make 20 oz of a 12 saline
solution from his supply of 5 and 15 solutions.
How much of each should he use?
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Consecutive Integers

• 7) The measures of the angles of a certain
  triangle are consecutive even integers. Find
  their measures

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• 8) Find three consecutive integers whose sum is
  162.

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Tickets

• 9) The school play sold 450 tickets for a total
  of 1160. If student tickets are 2.00 and adult
  tickets are 4.00, how many of each type were
  sold?

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10) Fred is selling tickets for his home movies.
Tickets for friends are 3.00 and everyone else
must pay 5.00 per ticket. If he sold 72 tickets
and made 258 how many of each type did he sell?
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Equations

• 11) Barney has 450 and spends 3 each week.
  Betty has 120 and saves 8 each week. How many
  weeks will it take for them to have the same
  amount of money?

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• 12)Fred has 100 and saves 4.00 each week.
  Wilma has 28 and saves 10 each week. How long
  will it take for them to have the same amount of
  money?

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Sketch a Picture
13) The longest side of a triangle is 3 more than
twice the middle side. The shortest side is 2
less than the middle side. If the perimeter is
45 inches, how long is each side?
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14) A board is 12 ft long and is to be cut into
3 pieces so that the second piece is twice the
size of the first piece, and the third is three
times the size of the second piece. Find the
length of the 3 pieces of board. ?