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HOMEWORK: 1.3 # 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 27, 31, 35, 41, 47, 65, 69, 73, 85, 86, 87, 91 Important formulas: Sales Tax: (cost of merchandise)(tax rate) Commission: (dollars in sales)(rate) Simple Interest: I = Prt Distance = (rate)(time) d=rt Geometry: Common formulas for Area, perimeter and volume: see chart on page 123 of text. Strategy or solving Applications: Read the problem carefully. Underline key words and phrases. 1. Identify what you know and what you want to find. Assign labels to known quantities and variables to unknown quantities. Let x (or any variable) represent one of the unknown quantities. 2. It is often useful to organize the information in a table and/or draw a picture. 3. Develop a verbal model Write a mathematical equation by replacing the words with numbers, variables and/or symbols. 4. Solve the equation. 5. Interpret the results and write final answer in words. Include units is appropriate. 6. Check your final answer/s in the original word problem (not in the equation). Example 1. The number of cats in the U.S. exceeds he number of dogs by 7.5 million. The number of cats and dogs combined is 114.7 million. Determine the number of cats and dogs in the U.S. Example 2: Eight subtracted from six times a number if 184. Find the number. Example 3: You are choosing between two long distance telephone plans. Plan A has a monthly fee of $15 with a charge of $0.08 per minute for all long distance calls. Plan B has a monthly fee of $3 with a charge of $0.12 per minute for all long distance calls. How many minutes of long distance calls will the costs for the two plans be the same? 0.08x+15=0.12x+3 Example 4: The perimeter of a triangular lawn is 162 meters. The length of the first side is twice the length of the second side. The length of the third side is 6 meters shorter that 3 times the length of the second side. Find the dimensions of the triangle. 2x+x+ 3(2x)-6=162 Example 5: Suppose you too