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mmm4444bot Super Moderator Joined Oct 6, 2005 Messages 10,962 Jan 19, 2010 #2 apollo79 said: I'm stuck on determining the variables … Click to expand... Hi Apollo: In word problems, variables generally represent unknown quantities that we're asked to find. Read the question in your exercise again: "How many counselors and how many aides should the camp hire … ?" Can you see that there are two unknown quantities? Can you do part (a) now? Once you finish part (a), we can move on to part (b). Cheers ~ Mark
apollo79 said: I'm stuck on determining the variables … Click to expand... Hi Apollo: In word problems, variables generally represent unknown quantities that we're asked to find. Read the question in your exercise again: "How many counselors and how many aides should the camp hire … ?" Can you see that there are two unknown quantities? Can you do part (a) now? Once you finish part (a), we can move on to part (b). Cheers ~ Mark