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When will I use this in life?

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      When I was in middle school and high school, math was not my favorite subject. I did not like it because I felt like most other kids in thinking "When am I going to use this in life?" My thinking on that question stemmed from algebra and trigonometry. I never thought I would need any of this in life. Man was I wrong. I am sure others have thought the same thing with math. This post is going to explore these two subjects and when I or others have encountered these in "real life".       First lets talk about algebra. Algebra is basically finding the unknown. For example, given an equation that says  3x-5=13 we can find what x is equal to which in this example goes as the following 3x=18 x=6 This doesn't exactly seem like it would be helpful in normal everyday living, but it definitely is. For example, lets say that somebody has 13 dollars and wants to know how many bags of candy they can buy for halloween. The bags of candy are $3 each and you ha