I taught freshman algebra for a semester at a big ten university. Therefore it&#x27;s also a safe bet that I did a shit load of word problems myself when in school. Here&#x27;s how you solve word problems:<p>1. From the text of the word problem, remember what section of the textbook it belongs to, and the standard form of equation to be solved in that section.<p>2. Match the parameters of the problem to the parameters of the equation.<p>3. Solve the equation.<p>For instance, &quot;find the maximum&quot; means creating an expression that has the form of a parabola (the only function they learned with an extremum, up to that point in the course), and solve for the vertex of the parabola.