Variable Approaches
Marlo travels 17 yards every x seconds. How many seconds will it take him to travel y yards at the same speed? A student I was working with encountered a very similar problem to this one and...
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“In a sport where a percent of players have a body fat percentage below b, c times out of d a randomly selected player will be above the threshold for obesity.” How many times did you have to read that...
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The positive numbers m and p are variables in the following equation: 4m + 5mp + 10 = 50m What is p in terms of m? A) 46/5 m B) 9m + 5 C) 46/5 – 2/m D) 5/m + 2 E) m/5 + 46 There’s always going to be an...
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