Forming equations from stories
Essential Mathematics · Grade 11 · about 40 minutes
Turn a real scenario or statement into a quadratic equation in standard form.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- What a quadratic equation is
- Forming equations from stories
- Solving by factorisation
- More factorising patterns
- Completing the square
- The turning point
- The quadratic formula
- The discriminant
- Graphs of quadratic functions
- Solving an equation from a graph
- Application: area and dimensions
- Application: speed, distance and time
- Application: money and profit
- Application: consecutive numbers
- A line and a curve
- Quadratic equations: mixed review