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GED Math: Writing Equations from Word Problems
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1. greater than or equal to

2. x is not more than 13

3. DIVISION EQUATION

Colton put his baseball card collection into a binder. He split the cards evenly among 8 pages, and there were 4 cards on each page. Which equation, when solved, will tell how many baseball cards Colton has?

4. Joseph must sell more than 20 ice cream cones in order to make a profit. He has already sold 6 cones. Choose an inequality that represents x, the number of cones that Joseph still needs to sell.

5. MULTIPLICATION EQUATION

During the canned food drive, each student collected 16 cans of food. The students collected 48 cans in all. Which equation, when solved, will tell how many students participated in the canned food drive?

6. ADDITION EQUATION

Sam and Yoshi collected seashells on the beach. Sam found 68 shells. When Sam and Yoshi put all of their shells together, they had 91 shells. Which equation, when solved, will show how many shells Yoshi found?

7. less than

8. x is at least 5

9. After paying 8 dollars for the pie, Alyssa has 84 dollars left. How much money did she have before buying the pie? Write an equation to represent this scenario.

10. MULTIPLICATION EQUATION

For the school picnic, Marlon put 2 slices of watermelon on each platter. There were 58 slices in all. Which equation, when solved, will tell how many platters Marlon used?

11. greater than

12. DIVISION EQUATION

When Tracy divided her stamp collection evenly onto 3 pages, there were 15 stamps on each page. Which equation, when solved, will tell how many stamps are in Tracy's stamp collection?

13. A student needs to collect at least 10 flowers for a science project. The student has already collected 3 flowers. The inequality shown can be used to find n, the number of flowers the student still needs.

14. SUBTRACTION EQUATION

Anita bought some buttons at the craft store. She used 7 of them for an art project and had 46 left. Which equation, when solved, will tell how many buttons Anita bought?

15. Jared spent at least $135 on tickets to the Red Sox game. Write an inequality to represent this scenario.

16. Sunday's high temperature of 72 degrees was at least 40 degrees higher than Monday's high temperature. What was Monday's high temperature? Write an inequality to represent the scenario.

17. Josiah earns $7.50 per hour on the weekends. Write an inequality that represents how many hours it will take him to earn at least $120.

18. Joseph has 20 gallons of gas in his tank. His tank uses 6 gallons of gas an hour. Which inequality represents the amount of time Joseph has before he will run out of gas?

19.

20. There were 7 roses in the vase. Sally cut some more roses from her flower garden. There are now 18 roses in the vase. How many roses did she cut? Write an equation to represent this scenario.

21. What does a open dot mean when graphing an inequality?

22. Oscar weighs 30 pounds less than his younger brother, who weighs w. The two brothers together weigh more than 100 pounds.

23. Jason's high school played 16 football games this year. The team won most of their games. They were defeated during 2 games. How many games did they win? Write a equation for this scenario.

24. An elevators maximum load is at most 3,400 pounds. A group of people enter the elevator weighing 560 pounds. Write an inequality that can be used to determine how many more pounds the elevator could carry.

25. The cost of downloading one song from a website is $0.99. Which equation can be used to find t, the cost in dollars of downloading n songs?

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