Question

Discuss three ways in which Algebra can help you meet your personal long term goals.

Answer 1

we can helped when we are buying fuel for our cars! xD

Answer 2

Lol.

Answer 3

you will need 70% to pass the exam how many questions will you need right if there are 100 questions

Answer 4

I need three ways!! :D

Answer 5

well they are asking for YOUR goals.. what are some of your goals?

Answer 6

what are you future goals? If you want to be a math major, then algebra is essential for all kinds of math. Think about what you might want to major in and then do for a job and think about how math, and more specifically, algebra, can help

Answer 7

Uhm.. I wanna be a singer. I don't think you use Algebra with being a singer..

Answer 8

If you want to be a singer, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_singers_use_math
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_math_used_in_singing

Answer 9

ok so to be a singer you must sell albums..
we can use algebra to to predict how many albums you will sell based on an anticipated rate of records sold and graphing it vs. time

Answer 10

like bob said, we can use algbrea to calculate how much taxes you will have to pay given a predicted income and a fixed tax rate

Answer 11

and we can see how the amout of taxes you must pay chages with the amout of money you make.

Answer 12

we can graph this and make a visual aid that can be used to predict how much taxes youll have to pay at any income level

Answer 13

you can find out how much time people put into singing and graph it with respect to how much money they make singing so that you know much much time you should devote to your talent in order to be successful doing it

Answer 14

Personal finance.

In other words -- how you manage your money.

"We just signed you a 10 million dollar deal where you get to keep 97% of the first 3% of the profit made off the first one hundred thousand albums which will be sold at half the default market value!"

SIGN HERE _______________

DO YOU SIGN??

Well... it's your money... :)

Answer 15

great example!

Answer 16

You need basic algebra skills (Ratio, percent, proportion, large and small numbers, understanding decimals...etc.) to even begin to understand a chart like this: (again, dealing with music and money)

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/