Activity 1: What Makes Me True?
Find the solution/s of each of the following mathematical sentences. Answer the questions that
follow.
1. x + 5 > 8
6. x + 5x + 6 =10
2. r- 3 < 10
7. t - 8t+7=0
3. 2s + 7 2 21
8. + r = 18
4. 31-2513
9. 2h-5h - 12 = 0
US
5. 12-5m>-8
10.9s? = 4
Questions:
a. How did you find the solution/s of each mathematical sentence?
b. What mathematics concepts or principles did you apply to come up with the solution/s?
c. Which mathematical sentence has only one solution? More than one solution? Describe these
mathematical sentences.​