What is the assumption statement: Divide a number by 36. The result is 11. What is the number?
Let a be the number.
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What is the assumption statement: A fruit market sold 72 kg of apples and 143 kg of apples are left. How many kilograms of apples were there in the fruit market originally?
Let a kg be the weight of apples in the fruit market originally.
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What is the assumption statement: A music book cost $87. Mandy pays $105 for a pen and a music book. How much does a pen cost?
Let $a be the price of a pen.
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Find the equation: The height of a parallelogram-shaped grassland is 6 m and its area is 54 square metre. What is its base?
6a = 54
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Find the equation: The money that Chris has is half that of Winnie. Chris has $56. How much money does Winnie have?
a / 2 = 56
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Find the equation: 7 times a number is the largest 2-digit even number. What is the number?
7m = 98
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Find the assumption statement: Ken has $e. After spending $161 on books, he has $178 left. How much does he have originally?
Let $a be the amount of money he has originally.
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Find the assumption statement: The owner of a sweet shop divides p chocolates into bags of 100 equally. There are 23 bags of chocolates and no chocolates are left. How many chocolates are there in the shop?
Let a be the total number of chocolates in the shop.
