Over the past 2 weeks the hardest lesson that I went through would be 6-5. I struggled at first with translating the words problem into an organized word and number equation and then changing it to a regular equation. While I was struggling with this Mrs. Pattnot told me to always write a multiplication sign above the word of so that you always know to multiply the number before the of by the number after it. The second thing that I struggled with on this lesson was remembering to convert the percent to a decimal before multiplying. This was something that no one could really help me with so I started to re-write the equation with the percent converted to a decimal.

Example:

Aaron earns a weekly salary of $350 plus a 7% commission on sales. Last week, his sales totaled $3200. What was his total pay?

Turn this word problem into a number and word problem:

7% of 3200 plus 350

Turn this into a number problem and then solve it:

.07 x 3200 = 224

7% = 224

+ 350

______

$574

This lesson was important because it is something that in the future I could use in real life. Taxes are typically 6% in Michigan but they are different in different places. Another way that I could use this in real life is when I go shopping I and there is a discount or I have a coupon, I would have to figure out how much I get off and then how much I have to pay.