A1-U1.4 Lesson: Literal Equations

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Warm-Up: Learning Log!

Describe what you remember from our class yesterday.

Unit 1 Lesson 4
Literal Equations

Video:

What temperature were the book and the hard drive in the video?

Does that temperature make sense?

Concepts:

​Literal Equations:

Equations that are manipulated to isolate one variable in terms of other variables, as well as coefficients and constants.

Procedures:

1) Determine what is attached to desired variable.
2) Use inverse operations to isolate.
3) Factoring may be necessary if the variable appears more than once in the equation.

​Example 1:

​Example 2:

​Example 3: