High School Math › How to do word problems where two quantities are unknown
Two cars leave a city at the same time. One heads east at and the other heads west at
. How far apart are they after
hours?
Rosie, Eileen and Sasha order a pizza. It is divided into slices. Eileen eats
slice. Roseanne eats twice as many slices as Sasha.
If there are slices of pizza remaining, how many slices did Sasha eat?
Michael has red shirts and
blue shirts, such that the ratio is
red shirts for every
blue shirts. What is the minimum number of shirts he can have?
A farmer has units of fence. If he uses this to build a square fence, what will be the area enclosed by the fence?
A helicopter flies against the wind from city A to city B in 5 hours. The same helicopter returns from city B to city A, in the same direction as the wind, in 4 hours. Find the ratio of the speed of the helicopter to the speed of the wind.