Simultaneous equation word problems
Word problems with two unknowns. Two people buy different amounts of the same two things: what does one of each cost? Or two heights add up to a total and one is taller by a given amount: how tall is each?
Stories include shopping, wages, heights, parcels, savings, roads, water tanks and ages, so the same method has to be spotted in different settings.
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What changes each time
- Nine kinds of story
- Sum-and-difference and two-purchase forms
- New names and numbers every time
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