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### Course: 6th grade>Unit 6

Lesson 9: Writing basic algebraic expressions word problems

# Writing basic expressions word problems

Learn to write expressions to model word problems. For example, "Ben has b dollars, and Cam has 7 fewer dollars than Ben."
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Writing basic expressions word problemsSee video transcript

# Now, let's practice

Problem 1
• Current
Daniel makes 100 dollars each week. He worked for x weeks this summer.
How much money did Daniel make this summer?

## Want to join the conversation?

• its really fun to do if its hard you can just practice
• This is so easy. Why am I doing this in 6th grade? :/
• Well, for me it was useful because English is my second language🐻‍❄️
• hi guyz i am from kenya
• it was easy(needs to be harder!)
• it was easy(needs to be harder!) Work on more difficult problems then. it was easy(needs to be harder!) Work on more difficult problems then.
• If i'm in 7th grade is this meant to be hard for me?