Find the equation: The length of a rectangle is 1 m. The area of the rectangle is 200 square centimetre. What is the width of the rectangle?
100a = 200 (answer in cm) or 1a = 0.02 (answer in m)
Solve the equation: n / 5 = 12
n = 60
38 + b + 12 = 150, what is b?
b = 100
Solve the equation:18 / c = 27
c = 2/3
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.
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
Find the equation: Amy is 5 kg heavier than Rose. If Rose weighs 27 kg, what is the weight of Amy?
a - 5 = 27 (Amy - 5 = Rose) or a - 27 = 5 (Finding difference)
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
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.
Find the equation: 7 times a number is the largest 2-digit even number. What is the number?
7m = 98
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.
Solve the equation: 0.1a = 5.5
a = 55
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.
What is the assumption statement: Divide a number by 36. The result is 11. What is the number?
Let a be the number.
Solve the equation: m / 2.5 = 0.4
m = 1
Solve the equation:p - 0.25 = 1.05
p = 1.3
Find the equation: Roy and 4 friends bought a gift together. Each of them paid $16. How much does the gift cost?
a / 5 = 16
Find the equation: Mr Chan drank 1.5 L of water. There is 660 mL of water left. How much water did he have originally?
a - 1.5 = 0.66 (answer in L) or a - 1500 = 660 (answer in mL)
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