Writing Equations Project

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Writing Equations Project

• If you were going to purchase a brand of sneakers
  today what brand would it be?
• What is your favorite food?
• What is your favorite soft drink?
• If you could purchase your clothes at just one
  store which store would you choose?
• Favorite music group?
• Favorite entertainer?
• Favorite fast food place

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• If I could get the autograph of just one athlete
  it would be the autograph of
• Favorite recent movie?
• Favorite author?
• Favorite magazine
• Favorite subject?
• My favorite teacher taught the subject
• Someone who demonstrates great leadership and
  influence.
• Favorite car

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Favorite entertainer? Johnny Depp Awards
Nominations 1 Oscar 3 Saturns 4 Golden Globes 1
Hollywood Film Festival
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Favorite musician? Toby Keith
SEC FLOOR 2
2ND ROW FLOOR 675.00 each  SEC 329
ROW P
delivery in December, fan club 110.00 each 
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Recent Movie? Shrek 2
Shrek 2 -Became the highest-grossing animated
film of all-time in just 25 days. As of Saturday,
12 June 2004, it had grossed 346.5 million in
the USA, surpassing previous (and only
one-year-old) champion Finding Nemo (2003)'s
339.8 million. Lion King, The (1994) had held
the animated box office record for 9 years before
Nemo was released in May, 2003
28 July 2003 (StudioBriefing) The Walt Disney
Co. and Pixar Animation are expected to announce
today (Monday) that Finding Nemo has become the
biggest animated box-office hit of all time,
exceeding the previous record of 312.8 million
taken in by The Lion King.
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Writing Equations Project
Favorite Fast Food Place Fazolis 18 locations
in Illinois
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Favorite Car Bentley
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Writing Equations Project

• Choose a variable and set it equal to your
  special number.
• Multiply both sides of the above equation by a
  number less than or equal to 10.
• Add or subtract some number from both sides of
  the equation in step 2.

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Writing Equations Project

• Simplify your final equation from step 3.
• Write your equation in words making sure to
  define the identity of your variable.
• What is the question you are going to ask after
  someone reads your story problem from step 5?

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Writing Equations Project

• Choose a variable and set it equal to your
  special number.
• Multiply both sides of the above equation by a
  number less than or equal to 10.
• Add or subtract some number from both sides of
  the equation in step 2.

110
675
6 t 6 110 6 t 660
6 t 15 660 15
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Writing Equations Project

• Simplify your final equation from step 3.
• Write your equation in words making sure to
  define the identity of your variable.
• What is the question you are going to ask after
  someone reads your story problem from step 5?

6 t 15 675
675 is 15 more than six times the cost of the
ticket
Tickets to the Toby Keith concert for New Years
Eve in Nashville are available in Row 2 as well
as the upper balcony general admission. The most
expensive ticket priced at 675 is 15 more than
six times the price of the upper balcony general
admission. What is the cost of the upper balcony
general admission ticket?
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Illustrations below show you what information
needs to be included on your final project.
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Tickets to the Toby Keith concert for New Years
Eve in Nashville are available in Row 2 as well
as the upper balcony general admission. The most
expensive ticket priced at 675 is 15 more than
six times the price of the upper balcony general
admission. What is the cost of the upper balcony
general admission ticket? Let x equal the price
of an upper balcony general admission ticket .