How does solving equations apply to the real world?

Answer 1

In the real world, it's useful to be able to come up with equations and solve them! With equations, you can find you MPG. A nurse will need to find the amount of medication a patient needs according to their age, weight, etc.

You use lots of equations in life, you just don't realize it, because they are simple equations.

If a movie starts at 7:00, and you want to be there 10 minutes before. And it is say a 5 minute drive. What time would you leave? You would say 6:45 without hardly any hesitation. Technically that is an equation you just solved mentally. A very simple equation.

Other careers dealing with engineering or physics, require equations. You have to use equations to find the velocity of a missile that takes off at a 30 degree angle and lands however far away.

Those are just a few of the ways we use equations in everyday life.