Translating Math to Words — Examples & Practice
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- Translating Math into Words We spend a lot of time talking about how to solve word problems by translating the words into mathematical expressions: addition, subtraction, multip…
By Hannah Bonville, Alex Federspiel, Jonathan Heller, Caroline K
- Sometimes, math problems can be pretty scary to look at. There might be numbers and symbols and parentheses everywhere which make equations/expressions practically unreadable. O…
By Vatsal Ojha, Joshua Siktar, Jonathan Heller
- (Video) Translating Math to Word Statements by MuchoMath Here's a video by MuchoMath that teaches you how to turns mathematical equations into words. Summary:\large{\text{Summar…
By Alex Federspiel, Jonathan Heller
Problems 21
- If you double the length and width of a window, you get a rectangle with fourti‾\underline{\phantom{fourti}}fourti area.
- Which description matches the expression x+2x+2x+2?
- Which of the following are English translations of the algebraic expression 5x+25x + 25x+2? (Here xxx represents a number.) Select all that apply.
- Which is an English translation of the following algebraic expression? (Here xxx represents some number.) 9−x2\sqrt{9-x^2}9−x2
- There are xxx slices of cake in total. What could the following math expression mean? 12(14x)\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{1}{4}x\right)21(41x)
- Put the following expression into English: x+4−yx+4-yx+4−y
- Put the following expression into English: x4+10\frac{x}{4}+104x+10
- Put the following expression into English words: x−14x-14x−14
- How would you describe the math below? A=5BA = 5BA=5B
- How would you describe this math? Grade=100×Score\text{Grade} = 100 \times \text{Score}Grade=100×Score
- How would you explain the equation below? 8+9=178 + 9 = 178+9=17
- How would you say this equation aloud? Tip=210×Bill\text{Tip} = \frac{2}{10}\times \text{Bill}Tip=102×Bill
- Which of the following description reflects the equation below? 8+x=138+x=138+x=13
- Describe the relationship between xxx and yyy in words. 5x=2y5x=2y5x=2y
- Which of the following statements could not have described the equation: 2×Kat=Dan2\times \text{Kat} = \text{Dan}2×Kat=Dan
- Which of the statements below reflects this equation: a+b=5a+b=5a+b=5
- Which of the statements below reflects this equation: a=5+ba=5+ba=5+b
- Which statement does the following equation correspond to? (x+y)×12=5(x+y)\times \frac{1}{2} = 5(x+y)×21=5
- Let xxx be the amount of money Nina fundraised and yyy be the amount Lex fundraised. The following two equations describe the relationship between xxx and yyy. Which of the foll…
- The original area of Yvonne's garden is 2x2x2x by 3y3y3y, for some integers xxx and yyy. She enlarged the garden and it is now 4x4x4x by 6y6y6y. How much bigger in area is the n…
- The Pythagorean theorem can be written with the equation a2+b2=c2a^2+b^2=c^2a2+b2=c2. How would you write this with words?