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TYPHON
According to Greek legend, Typhon was a monster with 100 heads,
each with a black serpent’s tongue speaking in different terrifying voices, wild
fire in each of his many eyes, and countless arms. Once he rebelled against
Zeus, King of the gods.
It would have been simple for Zeus to destroy the monster with his
thunderbolts if, one day he had not left them in a cave. Typhon found them
and had Zeus at his mercy. To learn how Zeus and his friend, Cademos,
outwitted and destroyed the monster, solve the problems below!
FIRST, solve the equations for the unknown and locate the value of each unknown in the
table on the back.
SECOND place the letter by the answer in the blank next to the problem.
THIRD, match the numbers by the corresponding letters!
1. ____ -7x < 28
11. ____ x – 7 > 2
2. ____ x + 15 > 19
12. ____ x 
1 3

2 4
13. ____ x 
3 1

4 2
3. ____
x
 2 .5
6
4. ____ x – 13 < -8
14. ____ -7 < -11 + x
5. ____
x
0
7
15. ____
x
< -1
4
6. ____
7
x  21
3
16. ____
1
1
x
9
3
7. ____ -11x > 55
17. ____ x + 8 < 10
8. ____ x + 4 > 14
18. ____ x + 1.3 > 2.8
9. ____ -9x > 45
19. ____ 92 < -23x
10. ____
1
x6
7
20. ____
1
x  17
4
21. ____ -4 < x + 9
KEY
A = x < 15
B = x < 42
C = x < -4
D = -4 > x
E= x>4
G = x > -4
H= x < -5
I = x < -3
L= x<5
M=x>9
N=x>0
O=4<x
P = x < -5
R = -13 < x
S= x < 2
T= x<9
U = x > 1.5
V = x > 0.25
W = x > 10
Y = x < 68
Z= x > -0.25
Solution:
6 - 20 – 7 - 9 -14 – 5,
10- 2- 16- 5- 1
15-9-3-21-11-2-19
10-20
11 -18- 17- 16- 15
14-5
10-20
15 -3- 19- 11- 14- 17.
7- 16- 7- 2- 17
11 - 14- 5- 17- 6- 2- 21
13 -2 – 18 -17
8 -3 -17
3
17- 2- 21- 7- 2- 5 -6
8 -3 - 17
7- 4- 3- 20- 2 -19
8- 9- 16 -4 - 2
6- 9- 2
19- 16 -17 -6 -21 -3- 15- 6- 2- 19,
21 -2 -15 -14 -12 -2 -21 -2 -19
9- 16- 17
6 - 9- 18- 5- 19 -2 - 21- 10- 14- 4- 6- 17.
From Adventures with Arithmetic Algebra