For today's problem my focus is algebra. Many of my students were having problems with, you guess it, word problem. Word problems are tricky, and it takes quite a bit of practice to get good at them.
Here is Today's problem, which I will solve and post the following day, followed by a new problem. Not all problems will be algebra, they could be geometry, calculus, physics and even chemistry.
1).. Two airplanes leave Los Angeles, at 10:00 am., one towards Europe at 600 miles per hour, and the other in a direction opposite to the first, at 150 miles per hour. When will they be 900 miles from each other? and how far have they each traveled?
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Solution to yesterday's problem..
this is quite simple if you know how to use the rtd equation.. namely, Distance = rate x time.
