he types of problems found on ancient papyri, books, and tablets focuses primarily on problems that relate to daily life. The solution methods for many ancient cultures are generally verbal, with mathematical statements written out in words. Why did most ancient cultures primarily write out their mathematical texts in words?

Lin is writing an equation to model the proportional relationship between y, the total cost in dollars of downloading videos from a website, and x, the number of videos downloaded. she knows that the total cost to download 3 videos was $12. her work to find the equation is shown below. joylin’s work step 1 k= 3/12= 0.25 step 2 y= 0.25x where did joylin make her first error?