Percentages
The price of pair of pants was decreased by 22% to 30 dollars. What was the original price of the pants?
38.50 dollars
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
personification
4x-7(2-x)=3x+2
x=2
i bought a beautiful dress at the mall
adjective
If -9/5 <-3t + 1<-7/4, What is one possible value of 9t-3?
21/4<x<27/5
Mary has a monthly salary if 1200 dollars. She spends 280 dollars per month on food. What percent of her monthly salary does she spend on food?
23%
Betty bought butter, but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better
alliteration
2(w+3)-10=6(32-3w)
49/5
What did she ask you to do
pronoun
This is another fine mess you have got us into.
name the oxymoron
fine mess
Smith invested 5000 dollars for two years. For the first year, the rate of interest was 7% and the second year it was 8.5%. How much interest did he earn at the end of the two year period?
$804.75
The 2 time travelers had broken their machine. They were left alone together
alone and together
4-2z/3=3/4-5z/6
-7/2
If we finish our work quickly we can go to the movies
adverb
x2+y2=153
y=-4x
if (x,y) is a solution to the system of equations above, what is the value of x2
9
A number increases from 30 to 40 and then decreases from 40 to 30. Compare the percent of increase from 30 to 40 and that of the decrease from 40 to 30
the increase=33%
the decrease=25%
America has tossed its hat over the wall of space.
metaphor
2(3x-7)+4(3x+2)=6(5x+9)+3
-5.25
I Left my shoes under the kitchen table
preposition
Correct the punctuation
The past is a foreign country, they do it differently there.
replace the comma with a ;
Cassandra invested one part of her 10,000 dollars at 7.5% per year and the other part at 8.5%. Her income from the two investments was 820 dollars. How much did she invest at each rate?
7.5%= 3000 dollars
8.5%= 7000 dollars
A ton of worry was lifted off the beggar's back when he received the alms.
hyperbole
2x=24
12
Well, I don't think I'll be home before 6.
interjection
if a2+14a=51 and a>0, what is the value of a+7 ?
10