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Answering Mathematical Questions

The document summarizes how to solve a mathematical word problem about the number of children who applied for school places. It represents the unknown number as N. It states that 30% of N was 150 places, which can be written as the equation 0.3N = 150. The document shows solving this equation to find that N = 500, meaning 500 children applied.

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Answering Mathematical Questions

The document summarizes how to solve a mathematical word problem about the number of children who applied for school places. It represents the unknown number as N. It states that 30% of N was 150 places, which can be written as the equation 0.3N = 150. The document shows solving this equation to find that N = 500, meaning 500 children applied.

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Answering mathematical questions

Consider the following.


A school has stated that 30% of the children who applied for places at
the school were successful. It allocated 150 places. How many children
applied?
To help you to think clearly about questions like this, it helps to represent
the number that you want to find by a letter. Let’s use N to represent the
number of children who applied.
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1 Why learn algebra?
The next step is to write down what you know about N in mathematical
notation. We know that 30% of N is 150. That is,
30 100 × N = 150,
which can be written more concisely as 3 school places, you have to find the value of N that makes the
equation correct when it’s substituted in. This is called solving the equation.
One way to solve the equation is as follows:
Three-tenths of N is 150, You’ll learn a different way to
solve this equation in Section 5.
so one-tenth of N is 150 ÷ 3 = 50,
so N is 10 × 50 = 500.
So the number of children who applied was 500.
You can confirm that this is the right answer by checking that equation (1)
is correct when N = 500 is substituted in

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