{"id":17820,"date":"2020-04-11T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-developmentalemporium\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=17820"},"modified":"2020-10-22T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T09:12:11","slug":"summary-using-formulas-to-solve-word-problems","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/chapter\/summary-using-formulas-to-solve-word-problems\/","title":{"raw":"7.4.c - Summary: Using Formulas to Solve Word Problems","rendered":"7.4.c &#8211; Summary: Using Formulas to Solve Word Problems"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Key Concepts<\/h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Distance, Rate, and Time Formula<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left\">[latex]d={r}{t}[\/latex]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWhere\u00a0[latex]d[\/latex] is distance,\u00a0[latex]r[\/latex] is rate, and\u00a0[latex]t[\/latex] is time.\r\n<h3><strong>Simple interest earned in an account can be defined by the formula<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left\">[latex]\\displaystyle I=P\\,\\cdot \\,r\\,\\cdot \\,t[\/latex]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWhere I is the interest earned, P is principal, r is the interest rate, and t is time.\r\n<h3><strong>Conversion formula for Fahrenheit to Celsius is<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left\">[latex]C=\\left(F--32\\right)\\cdot \\frac{5}{9}[\/latex]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWhere F is degrees in Fahrenheit and C is degrees in Celsius","rendered":"<h2>Key Concepts<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Distance, Rate, and Time Formula<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">[latex]d={r}{t}[\/latex]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where\u00a0[latex]d[\/latex] is distance,\u00a0[latex]r[\/latex] is rate, and\u00a0[latex]t[\/latex] is time.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Simple interest earned in an account can be defined by the formula<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">[latex]\\displaystyle I=P\\,\\cdot \\,r\\,\\cdot \\,t[\/latex]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where I is the interest earned, P is principal, r is the interest rate, and t is time.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Conversion formula for Fahrenheit to Celsius is<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">[latex]C=\\left(F--32\\right)\\cdot \\frac{5}{9}[\/latex]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where F is degrees in Fahrenheit and C is degrees in Celsius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253111,"menu_order":24,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"3d4e9a7f39c04c12b1f8ded55aec3c71","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-17820","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":7476,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/17820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20317,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/17820\/revisions\/20317"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/7476"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/17820\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}