Solving Equations & Isolating

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 Sam and Jeremy have ages that are
consecutive odd integers. The product of
their ages is 783. Which equation could be
used to find Jeremy’s age, j, if he is the
younger man?

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Given y = wx2 and y is not 0. If the values of x
and w are each doubled, then the value of y is
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 33. Owen gets paid $280 per week plus 5%
commission on all sales for selling electronic
equipment. If he sells d dollars worth of
electronic equipment in one week, which
algebraic expression represents the amount of
money he will earn in w weeks?

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Which expression represents the number of
hours in w weeks and d days?
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If x is a positive integer such than x9 = r and 41.
x5 = w, which of the following must be equal In 1995, the U.S. federal government paid off
to x13? one-third of its debt. If the original amount of the
debt was $4,920,000,000,000, which expression
represents the amount that was not paid off?

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Three times the sum of a number and four is 42.
equal to five times the number, decreased by
two. If x represents the number, which
equation is a correct translation of the
statement?
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When 6 times a number x is added to 5, the result
is 19. What number results when 5 is subtracted 50.
from 3 times x?

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When the number k is multiplied by 5, the result Last month, Sara, Ryan, and Taylor received a
is the same as when 5 is added to k. What is the total of 882 emails. If Sara received 25% more
value of k? emails than the sum of the number of emails
received by Ryan and Taylor, how many emails
did Sara receive?

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In an election for senior class president, Emily
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Alexis. If Emily received 163 votes, the number
of votes Alexis received is closest to

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66. At City High School, the sophomore class has 60
more students than the freshman class. The junior
class has 50 fewer students than twice the
students in the freshman class. The senior class is
three times as large as the freshman class. If there
are a total of 1,424 students at City High School,
how many students are in the freshman class?

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The total score in a football game was 72 points.
The winning team scored 12 points more than the
losing team. 80.
How many points did the winning team score? Gerald and Jim work at a furniture store. Gerald is
paid $185 per week plus 4% of his total sales. Jim
is paid $275 per week plus 2.5% of his total sales.
What amount of sales will make their weekly pay
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Max’s cell phone plan charges a monthly “pay-
as-you-go rate” of $0.13 for each text message 81.
sent or received. If Max was charged $7.41 for 15
If 7 quarters and n nickels is equivalent to 380
more sent texts than he received, how many texts
pennies, what is the value of n?
did Max send?

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A gardener is planting two types of trees:
76. ■ Type A is three feet tall and grows at a rate of
15 inches per year.
■ Type B is five feet tall and grows at a rate of 9
inches per year.

How many years will it take for these trees to

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The set of equations above describes how the
supply, S, and demand, D, for a computer
memory chip depends on market price. If p
represents the price in dollars for each lot of 10
memory chips, for what dollar price per memory
chip does supply equal demand? 84.
An animal shelter spends $2.35 per day to care
for each cat and $5.50 per day to care for each
79. dog. If $89.50 is spent caring for a total of 22 cats

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of the cats?

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In the equations above, r and p represent the

price per gallon, in dollars, of regular and
premium grades of gasoline, respectively, x
months after January 1 of last year. What
was the cost per gallon, in dollars, of
premium gasoline for the month in which the
per gallon price of premium exceeded the per
gallon price of regular by $0.93?
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If the value of n nickels plus d dimes is c
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