What are ways I can understand a math application question?
Answer
There are tons of tips and skills you can learn when it comes to application questions for math. Here some useful tips on what to do when you encounter application questions.
1. Read the problem carefully would be the first step to do. In order to make sure that you understand what you read and get an idea on what to do.
2. Extract information to figure out what the desired equation should look like once you gathered the right information from the question.
3. Define the variables to understand which variables goes where for example x= dogs for sale and y= cats for sale. Doing this can help find what is the unknown of the equation.
4. Set up the equation is once you have gathered the information and variables to build the equation successfully based off of the analysis of the application question.
5. Solve the equation carefully once you put it together be careful on how you solve. Keep an eye for signs and what you are solving for from the question.
6. Check your units would be the next step to ensure you solved the equation correctly and with the correct signs and units for your final answer.
7. Check your work. In order to verify that you solved the problem carefully by plugging in your answer or answers to their respected variables to ensure you solved the problem correctly.