Grade 8 Algebra Word Problems

How to write algebra word problems into systems of linear equations and solve systems of linear equations using elimination and substitution methods?

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Grade 8 Algebra Word Problems
How to solve algebra word problems using systems of linear equations?

Example:
Devon is going to make 3 shelves for her father. He has a piece of lumber 12 feet long. She wants the top shelf to be half a foot shorter than the middle shelf, and the bottom shelf to be half a foot shorter than twice the length of the top shelf. How long will each shelf be if she uses the entire 12 feet of wood?

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Grade 8 Algebra Word Problems - Line Segments

Example:
If JK = 7x + 9, JL = 114 and KL = 9x + 9. Find KL.

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Grade 8 number word problems - common core
How to write word problems into systems of linear equations and solve systems of linear equations using elimination and substitution methods?

Example 1:
The sum of two numbers is 361 and the difference between the two numbers is 173. What are the two numbers?

Example 2:
There are 356 Grade 8 students at Euclid’s Middle School. Thirty-four more than four times the number of girls is equal to half the number of boys. How many boys are in Grade 8 at Euclid’s Middle School? How many girls?

Example 3:
A family member has some five-dollar bills and one-dollar bills in their wallet. Altogether she has 18 bills and a total of $62. How many of each bill does she have?

Example 1:
A friend bought 2 boxes of pencils and 8 notebooks for school and it cost him $11. He went back to the store the same day to buy school supplies for his younger brother. He spent $11.25 on 3 boxes of pencils and 5 notebooks. How much would notebooks cost?

Exercises:

1. A farm raises cows and chickens. The farmer has a total of 42 animals. One day he counts the legs of all of his animals and realizes he has a total of 114. How many cows does the farmer have? How many chickens?
2. The length of a rectangle is 4 times the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 45 inches. What is the area of the rectangle?
3. The sum of the measures of angles x and y is 127". If the measure of angle x is 34° more than half the measure of angle y, what is the measure of each angle?

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