More than 4,000 years ago, people in ancient Babylonia used math to calculate how much
land to use for farming and how much of
each crop they harvested. They also used
math to calculate how much tax to charge
people.
Today, we use algebraic tools such as writing
and solving equations, systems of equations,
inequalities, and systems of inequalities to
help us measure and interpretreal-world
scenarios. What twenty-first century tasks do
these tools help us manager
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