It is true. It may not be obvious, but there are many people struggling with algebra. Unfortunately I am one of those people. It is one way I drive my teachers crazy. I will often see a problem like this in my textbook:
"Sarah has a book store. She sells magazines and poetry. The number of people who bought poetry is two times greater than the number of people who bought magazines. Who bought what?"
Now you see why I don't get it. My teacher keeps trying to tell me that I need to guess, but if you guess how will I get the right answer? It's insanity! I feel like my mind is going to explode! Sometimes I even say to myself who cares how many books she sold? It's not my fault she can't keep track! some days there's that off chance that I get something right and on those days I get rewarded with an extra homework sheet. Yay! We love algebra homework. Then at the end of the year, I finally understand it and go forget it all over summer vacation. Isn't school great?
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And thats if you're LUCKY.
we've all gone through that. I pity you.
A super hero's weakness is algebra.
Your teacher might tell you to guess, but what if you are doing algebra to determine the flight path of a rocket and it goes off to Pluto instead of Jupiter? What will you say then? "I must have guessed wrong"? No, you have to set up an equation. For example, in this problem, if the total sold was 24 things, you could make x represent the amount of poetry sold and y represent the amount of magazines sold. Thus, your equation would be:
24=x+y
= 24=2y+y
= 24=3y
divide both sides by three...
y=8
She sold 8 magazines and 16 poetries...or whatever.
Chag Samaeach!!
Ahhh! Head exploding...Too many numbers.....Must leave classroom.
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