Zillions of Practice Problems

for
Beginning Algebra

Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Polka Dot Publishing

 What This Book Is All About

n the Life of Fred: Beginning Algebra Expanded Edition book, there

I areYour Turn to Play sections after each topic is presented. And each
Your Turn to Play offers complete solutions to each question.
At the end of each chapter are three problem sets, each named after
a city. Each of the problems in these cities is also completely worked out
in the book.

I thought that all those problems would be enough.

I still think all those problems are enough.
As they say in German: Genug ist genug.✶

{ { {

Some of my readers have written to me, “Enough is not enough.

We want more. We want tons of problems along with completely worked
out solutions. We need the drill-and-kill approach. My kids are not crying
when they read Fred—how could they be learning math without crying?”

If you are a part of those some readers, then this Zillions of

Practice Problems was written for you.

HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED

Life of Fred: Beginning Algebra Expanded Edition is in twelve

chapters. This book also has twelve chapters.
As you work through each chapter in Life of Fred: Beginning
Algebra Expanded Edition, you can do as many of the problems as you
like in the corresponding chapter in this book.

✶
“Enough is enough.” I learned this nifty phrase when I studied German in high
school.

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 CHAPTERS IN THIS BOOK

Each chapter in this book is divided into two parts.

✯ The first part takes each topic and offers a zillion problems.

✯ The second part is called the Mixed Bag. It consists of a variety of

problems from the chapter and review problems from the beginning of the
book up to that point.

COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Every problem (gasp!) will receive a detailed solution—not just the

answer.

ELIMINATING TEMPTATION

The solutions and answers are all given in the back half of the
book. The first question in this book is numbered “45.” The second one is
“888.” In most ordinary practice books, they are numbered, “1, 2, 3 . . .”
which is really silly when you think about it. In those books, when you
look up the answer to “1” you might accidentally see the answer to “2” and
that would spoil all the fun.

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 Contents
Chapter 1 Numbers and Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
finite and infinite sets
natural numbers, whole numbers, integers
set notation
negative numbers
ratios
the empty set

Chapter 2 The Integers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

less than (<) and the number line
multiplication
proportion
π
coefficients

Chapter 3 Equations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
solving equations with continued ratios
formulas from geometry
consecutive numbers
set builder notation
reflexive, symmetric, and distributive properties
rational numbers
order of operations
distance = (rate)(time) problems

Chapter 4 Motion and Mixture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

motion problems
price and quantity problems
age problems
mixture problems

Chapter 5 Two Unknowns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

solving two equations, two unknowns by elimination
union of sets
transposing
graphing of points
mean, mode, and median averages
graphing linear equations
graphing any equation
word problems in two unknowns

Chapter 6 Exponents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
solving two equations, two unknowns by graphing
exponents: xmxn, (xm)n and xm ÷ xn
solving two equations, two unknowns by substitution
inconsistent and dependent equations
commutative laws
factorials and ordering
negative and zero exponents
volumes

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Chapter 7 Factoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
multiplying binomials and trinomials
polynomials
first kind of factoring: common factors
factoring easy trinomials: x² + bx + c
factoring a difference of squares
factoring by grouping
factoring harder trinomials: ax² + bx + c
solving quadratic equations by factoring

Chapter 8 Fractions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
solving equations containing fractions
simplifying fractions
adding and subtracting fractions
multiplying and dividing fractions
complex fractions
“job” problems

Chapter 9 Square Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

simplifying square roots
solving pure quadratic equations
principal square roots
the real numbers
the irrational numbers
cube roots and indexes
fractional and negative exponents
solving radical equations
rationalizing the denominator

Chapter 10 Quadratic Equations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

solving quadratic equations by completing the square
the quadratic formula
long division of polynomials

Chapter 11 Functions and Slope.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

definition of a function
domain, codomain, image
range of a function
slope
slope-intercept (y = mx + b) form of the line

Chapter 12 Inequalities and Absolute Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

graphing inequalities in two dimensions
division by zero
solving linear inequalities with one unknown

All the answers worked out in complete detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

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 Chapter Four

Mixture Problems

6179. Joe wants to make 30 pounds of chili seasoning that contains 30%
cayenne pepper. He has one sack of mild chili seasoning that is 10%
cayenne and one sack of hot chili seasoning that is 40% cayenne.
How much of each sack should he use?
6704. Darlene has some pancake mix that contains 2% sugar. She calls
that her bitter mix. She has some that contains 5% sugar. She calls that
her too-sweet mix.
She wants to make 60 pounds of pancake mix that has 3% sugar.
How much of each mix should she use?
8975. You are a veterinarian and you need to give
a marten a shot to ease its pain. You need to give
it 9 cc that contains 6% morphine. You have
some 4% and some 10%. How much of each
should you mix together?
(Side note: It is often nice in medical work
to get the mathematics right. Too little pain killer and the marten remains
in pain. Too much morphine and the martin will look like:

dead
marten

201. We need to ship 600 cars to Freedonia, and the order specifies that
28% of those cars should have tape players.
40% of the older cars have tape players, and 15% of the newer cars
do. How many older cars should we ship?
1850. Darlene has weak dishwashing liquid that contains 17% soap. She
also has strong dishwashing liquid that contains 37% soap.
Darlene just purchased a dishwashing
robot. When she read the directions, she found
out that the robot would only work if you gave it
444 ounces of dishwashing liquid that contained
22% soap.
How much of each dishwashing liquid
should Darlene use?
(Joe never washes his dishes because he
only uses paper plates.)

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 Chapter Four

Second part: the Mixed Bag: a variety of problems from

this chapter and previous material

2226. Joe likes his cereal with exactly 8% flour in it. (The rest is sugar
and artificial flavorings.) He asked Darlene take his two
boxes of cereal—Captain Mousebait (7% flour) and
Sergeant Sugar (11% flour)—and mix them together to
get 300 ounces.
How much of each cereal should Darlene use?

1928. Haydn wrote the “Sun” quartets five times as long ago as Robert
Frost wrote “In the Clearing.”
Sixteen years from now, the “Sun” quartets will be four times as
old as “In the Clearing.”
How old is “In the Clearing” today?
2258. Joe decided one night to read “In the Clearing.” He first read the
poem at the rate of 40 words/minute. Then he decided to read it
backwards. Reading backwards slowed his reading rate down to 5
words/minute.
It took him a total of 27 minutes to read the poem in both
directions. How long did it take Joe to read the poem in the normal
direction?
2280. Joe liked to eat jelly beans while he watched television every
evening. He bought red jelly beans at a cost of $5/lb. He bought green
jelly beans at $6/lb. He spent a total of $488. He bought 8 more pounds
of the green than of the red. How many pounds of red jelly beans did he
buy?
4507. This particular cat likes some bones in his fish. (It’s a good source
of calcium.) This cat prefers a fish mixture
with 7% bones.
How many pounds of 5% bones
should he mix with 8% bones to obtain 36
pounds of fish with 7% bones?

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 Chapter Five
First part: Problems on Each Topic

Solving Two Equations, Two Unknowns by Elimination

1891. Solve 7x + 3y = 43
 4x – 3y = 1
2292. Solve 5x + 3y = 18
 –5x – 10y = 10
2904. Solve 10x + 6y = 62
 8x – 2y = 2
4010. Solve 4x + 3y = 3
 12x – 7y = –71
4505. Solve 6x + 6y = –18
 7x + 8y = –25
4519. Solve 6x + 3y = 6
 9x + 10y = 42

Union of Sets

3328. What is the union of {3, 4, 5} and {4, ♡, w}?

4280. {8} ∪ {1, 2} = ?
4500. {x | x is an integer and x > 4} ∪ {y | y is a whole number and y < 6}
600. {1, 2, 3} ∪ {3, 2, 1}
800. { } ∪ {✇}
924. For any set A, it is always true that A ∪ { } = A.
For any number x, it is always true that x times 1 equals x.
{ } is called the identity element for union.
1 is called the identity element for multiplication.
What is the identity element for addition?
1893. { y | y is an integer and y < –4} ∪ { z | z is a natural number}

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 The Complete Solutions and Answers
6019. In a right triangle the shortest leg is 10 meters shorter than the other
leg. The hypotenuse is 50 meters long. How long is the shorter leg?
We almost always begin a word problem by letting the
variable equal the thing we are trying to find out.
Let x = the length of the shorter leg.
Then x + 10 = the length of the longer leg.

By the Pythagorean theorem, x2 + (x + 10)2 = 502

x2 + x2 + 20x + 100 = 2500
2x2 + 20x – 2400 = 0
Divide everything by 2 x2 + 10x – 1200 = 0
Find two numbers that
multiply to –1200 and add
to 10. +40 and –30 (x + 40)(x – 30) = 0
Set each factor equal to zero x + 40 = 0 OR x – 30 = 0
x = 30 meters
(x = – 40 meters doesn’t make any sense for the length of a leg.)

6021. 5 + 17 – y
y – 12 12 – y
The least common multiple is not (y – 12)(12 – y). That’s too
large. We can make the denominators alike by multiplying the second
fraction on the top and bottom by –1.
5 + 17 – y = 5 + (17 – y)( – 1)
y – 12 12 – y y – 12 (12 – y)( – 1)
= 5 + (17 – y)(–1)
y – 12
= 5 – 17 + y
y – 12
= y – 12 = 1
y – 12

6025. {x | x = a/b where a and b are integers and b ≠ 0} is the set of

rational numbers. All of these are rational numbers: 7/3, –5/8, 200,
4.3238, √
144, and 0, because each of these can be written as an integer
divided by a non-zero integer. 200 = 200/1, 4.3238 = 43238/10000,
√
144 = 12/1, and 0 = 0/83.

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 Index
age problems commutative laws
#680. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 #243. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
#6122. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 #402. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
#5570. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 #541. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
#1928. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 #501. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
#5600. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 #22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
#4716. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 #4711. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#4610. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
consecutive numbers
area of a rectangle #7041. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#6411. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 #8695. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#7304. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 #6274. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#5304. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 #6408. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#8332. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
cardinality of a set #9081. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#3000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 #7777. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#8888. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #6124. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#3700. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 #5231. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#245. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 #6748. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

circumference continued ratios

#7103. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #7020. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
#6148. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
coefficients #8912. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
#3302. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #4503. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#5700. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #2001. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
#2898. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
#4278. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
#7023. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#6421. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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cube roots and indexes equations containing fractions
#303. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #8008. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
#6344. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #2566. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
#6505. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #4360. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
#7225. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #7803. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
#867. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #4537. . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
#2890. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 #2727. . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
#646. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 #1203. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#8212. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 #2108. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

distance = (rate)(time)
#8870. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 exponents
#525. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #1277. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#590. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #9012. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#6127. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #8418. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#9303. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#8989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #5712. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#443. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #6277. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#6405. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 #6311. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#957. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 #6420. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#979. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 #7788. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#1100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 #6742. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#6303. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #6800. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#7030. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
distributive property #7306. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#6902. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 #9306. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
#8898. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #7116. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#527. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #498. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#351. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #1583. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#6149. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 #648. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
#7791. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
division by zero
#1906. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
#2444. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
#6924. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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factorials and ordering factoring—easy trinomials
#1316. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 #1003. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#1375. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 #1099. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#1602. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 #1200. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#1667. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 #1280. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#805. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 #1387. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#871. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 #1520. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#1725. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 #407. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#4531. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 #873. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#4468. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 #522. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#3850. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 #544. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#807. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
factoring—common factors #951. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#5592. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 #4607. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
#4911. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 #990. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#5100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
#5201. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 factoring—grouping
#5302. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 #2608. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#5450. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 #2800. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#358. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 #2949. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#4835. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 #3009. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#3162. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
factoring—difference of squares #3215. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#1635. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 #3260. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#1680. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 #3380. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#1726. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 #4824. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#1750. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#1898. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#1939. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#2050. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#2310. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#2390. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#2506. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
#4030. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#4125. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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factoring—harder trinomials fractions—complex
#3407. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 #1753. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
#3505. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 #1835. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
#3606. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 #2051. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
#4000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#4260. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 fractions—multiplying and
#4290. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 dividing
#4350. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 #3965. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#4477. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 #4401. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#4533. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 #5117. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#4831. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 #5240. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#5009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
#547. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 functions, domains, codomains,
#599. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 images
#1047. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
fractional and negative exponents #1122. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
#9275. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #869. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
#9073. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #644. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
#8919. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #1527. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
#1003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #993. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
#8210. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #1205. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
#1225. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #1390. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
#1263. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
fractions—adding and #275. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
subtracting #258. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
#3393. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 #1140. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
#1060. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 #6955. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
#2954. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#3222. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#3900. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#3424. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#3610. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#3870. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#6021. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
#3960. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
#3955. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
#3411. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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going from 4 to 11 problems graphing linear equations
#593. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #1633. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#917. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #208. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#445. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #9087. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#494. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #9000. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#864. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #470. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#532. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #530. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#980. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#685. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #9011. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#732. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 #5234. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
#207. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 #997. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
#1585. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 #255. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
#4965. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 #2304. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

graphing any equation graphing points

#5709. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 #4447. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#1721. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 #4520. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#6150. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #4900. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#7800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #918. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#1832. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #3303. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#2777. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 #8915. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#595. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
inconsistent and dependent
graphing inequalities in two equations
dimensions #1894. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#1050. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 #1935. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#1136. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 #2100. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#3022. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 #2305. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#1250. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 #5225. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#1529. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
#1730. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 integers
#2527. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 #518. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#4180. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 #726. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#1241. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #3116. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

263
integers—adding integers—subtracting
#986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #742. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#188. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #356. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#855. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #521. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#240. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #959. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#333. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #585. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#977. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #655. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#714. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #682. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#460. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #729. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#640. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #989. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#616. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #840. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#944. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 #866. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#441. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 #891. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#651. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 #925. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#2203. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #913. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#1836. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #1313. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#3855. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 #907. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#58. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 #5606. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

integers—multiplying, dividing job problems

#4444. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #3430. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
#6121. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #2403. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
#1409. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #2960. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
#1111. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #875. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
#1748. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #7700. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#1830. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #4177. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#3256. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #1130. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
#1625. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #1692. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
#1371. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #1420. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
#1001. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
#6181. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
#5525. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
#9009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
#6300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
#6500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
#6288. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
#436. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

264
less than < mean, median, and mode
#1362. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 averages
#1600. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #6190. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#1663. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #8900. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#1717. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #8340. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#1921. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #6735. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#2270. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #5222. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#2275. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #5707. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#3333. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #6130. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#5585. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #8977. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#960. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 #6302. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#6418. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #6417. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#6215. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 #4522. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#360. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 #4282. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#7791. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 #1222. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#5203. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
linear inequalities
#2303. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 mixture problems
#2525. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #1850. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
#2635. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #201. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
#2896. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #6179. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
#5099. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #6704. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
#5454. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #4507. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
#5608. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #2226. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
#5107. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
long division of polynomials #6323. . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
#3015. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 #3550. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#992. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 #2892. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#642. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 #6333. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
#6498. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#6831. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 motion problems
#251. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 #1709. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
#5022. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 #8970. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
#9065. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
#9225. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

265
multiplying binomials and number, rate, and time problems
trinomials #8327. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
#2504. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #920. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
#2606. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #1919. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
#2790. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #2258. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
#2946. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #5300. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #7120. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
#3211. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #4399. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#3404. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #5004. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
#3502. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #7333. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
#3601. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
#4017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 order of operations
#7403. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #1844. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
#7606. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #8413. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
#4354. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 #6730. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
#8000. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
multiplying by zero #1630. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
#2939. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #870. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#5215. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
natural numbers
#405. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 pi π
#589. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #2249. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
#6210. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #2289. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
#2291. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
negative and zero exponents #3299. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
#2500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 #4811. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
#1834. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 #6204. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
#1936. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 #7103. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
#2308. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 #8004. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#2400. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 #650. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#2603. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
#3370. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#7309. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
#7814. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
#2745. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#1244. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

266
polynomials quadratic equations solved by
#4470. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 factoring
#4712. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #4913. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#4600. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #4829. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#4275. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 #4603. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#4822. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 #4699. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#4535. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 #5001. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
#4127. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
price and quantity problems #4020. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#2272. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 #6019. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#2280. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 #5800. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#5597. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#5609. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
principal square roots #5790. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
#4538. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #5101. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
#4611. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #1524. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#4718. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
#4848. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 quadratic equations—completing
#5252. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 the square
#5311. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #1683. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#5595. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #1903. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#5692. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #1942. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#7815. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 #5020. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#2340. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
proportions #2410. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#2284. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #2575. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#3160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #2615. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#1926. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 #4977. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
#4518. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 #1945. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
#4466. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 #2630. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
#6738. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #596. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
#5812. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
quadratic equations
#5236. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

267
quadratic equations—quadratic radical equations
formula #4747. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
#1009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 #5010. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
#1010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 #4940. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
#1044. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 #3720. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
#594. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 #3979. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
#1252. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 #7425. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
#495. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 #4912. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
#1378. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 #2301. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#5050. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 #277. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
#5611. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 #3030. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
#6115. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
#6325. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 radius
#1208. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 #5566. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
#2302. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 #6320. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
#6511. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ratio problems
quadratic equations—solving #154. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
pure quadratics #718. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#2611. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #619. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#1900. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #511. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#2060. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #852. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#2323. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #326. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#2407. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#2570. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #467. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
#4141. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #845. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#3620. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 #1690. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#3512. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #2930. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#6304. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #6308. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#4300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #5795. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
#3020. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 #205. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
#1024. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 #5017. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#5114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 #2634. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

268
rational numbers repeating decimals
#790. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #2888. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#711. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #4330. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#629. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #1904. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#1380. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 #3555. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
#6129. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 #8952. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
#3037. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
set builder notation
rationalizing the denominator #6685. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#1007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #7105. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#1069. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #7792. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#6509. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #8895. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#248. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #8973. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
#6825. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 #941. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#4860. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 #948. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#2066. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#1212. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 sets braces
#1220. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 #492. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

real numbers and irrational sets and braces

numbers #221. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
#6290. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #317. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
#6025. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
#6234. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #923. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
#5799. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 #699. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
#597. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 #900. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
#667. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
reflexive property of equality.. 21 #930. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
#20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 #9130. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
#1613. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#3927. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 sets—empty set
#1681. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 #37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

269
sets—equality of slope-intercept form of the line
#500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #1205. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
#71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #994. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
#888. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #645. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
#401. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 #1022. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
#53. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 #1391. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
#598. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 #1260. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

sets—finite and infinite solving equations

#123. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #740. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
#560. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #5607. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#635. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 #1265. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
#5816. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
sets—is a member of
#5580. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 square roots—simplifying
#523. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
simplifying fractions #3012. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
#3114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 #3121. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
#3262. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 #3716. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
#3508. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 #4321. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
#3705. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 #4150. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
#933. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 #4838. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
#2950. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 #1040. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
#3858. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 #2522. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
#8009. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
slope
#1258. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 symmetric property of equality
#2894. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 #204. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
#5740. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 #5266. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
#2511. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 #1125. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
#2072. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
#1049. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 transposing
#1930. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#2294. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
#2901. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

270
trapezoid—area of union of sets
#8950. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 #924. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
#9122. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 #3328. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
#4123. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 #4280. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
#4500. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
two equations solved by #800. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
elimination #600. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
#4010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 #1893. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
#1891. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 #950. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#2292. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 #3005. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#2904. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 #5111. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
#4505. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
#4519. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 volume
#2935. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #2717. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
#6414. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 #2788. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
#4700. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 #2943. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
#4284. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 #3366. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
#4295. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 #4450. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
#1685. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 #4820. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#5104. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 #7790. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

two equations solved by graphing whole numbers

#2300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 #347. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
#2909. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 #5590. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
#4818. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
word problems in two unknowns
two equations solved by #6207. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
substitution #6305. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
#5588. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 #8207. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
#6315. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#6902. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
#4909. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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