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![PACKET 1.5
4.4: SOLVING PERCENT PROBLEMS ] 1
Write your questions here!

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Our!goal!is!to!transform!equations!that!like!this:!

!!!2!! + !!4!! = 12

into!equations!that!look!like!this:!

!!!!!! = ! 2! + 6!

There!are!many!reasons!why!we!want!to!do!this,!but!the!main!reason!is!because!the!
lines!will!be!easier!to!graph.!

We!will!use!the!same!skills!we!learned!in!Unit!3!when!we!learned!how!to!solve!
2
equations.!

Examples.!Solve!the!following!equations!for!y.

1. 2! = 4! 10 2. 5y + 40 = 20x 3. 4x 6y = 12

You try 3:

1. 5! = 10! + 25 2. 5y - 20 = 15x 3. 5x 2.5y = 25

 More Examples:

1. x##y#=#10 2. 2x##3y# #21#=#0 3. 6x##=#7y#+#6x

Now, summarize
your notes here!

4. Review Skillz

1. Solve: 2. Simplify: 3. Describe how to move from Point

A to Point B:
!!!6! 7! = 2! 3 12! 5 + 10!

4. Solve: 5. Simplify:

!!9! !3!!= ! 21! 2(! + 1) (12! 5)!

___________ units in the y direction

___________ units in the x direction

6. Describe how to move from

point C(0, -1) to Point D(-3, 7):
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Solve each equation for y.
 Application 4.4
1.5

1. Solve for y: 80#+#40x#=#20y 2. Solve#for#y:## 180##=#20y##10x

3. Dance Machine. Mr. Phan Brust plans to drive to watch Mr. Dzerkacz
Sullivan in his dance recital at the Strand
Pfalz-
Theater. He will travel 242 km on the Autobahn
highway at an average speed of 130 km/h.

a. Transform the equation x = ry (where x = distance, r = rate, y = time), to find a formula for
time (Hint: Solve for y.)

b. How much time does Mr. Brust

Phan need for the trip? Sub in for x and r to find out!

!
. Chillin. The formula for Celsius temperature is ! = ! 32 gives the Celsius temperature (X)
!
in terms of the Fahrenheit temperature (Y).

a. Transform the formula to find the Fahrenheit temperature in terms of Celsius temperature.
(hint: Solve for y!!)

b. In January 2012, the coldest day in Baumholder

Boston recorded a temperature of -10o C. How many
degrees is that in Fahrenheit? (Double hint: plug into the Celsius Tempertaure! !!)