This resource is designed to help students understand and apply the distributive property, combine like terms, and utilize inverse operations to solve multi-step linear equations in real-world contexts related to gardening. Through a step-by-step approach, students will learn to distribute values across parentheses, simplify expressions by combining like terms, and solve for an unknown variable using appropriate mathematical operations. The document includes practical examples and practice problems that illustrate how these mathematical concepts can be applied in scenarios involving garden planning, such as calculating the number of plants or length of paths. Additionally, students are encouraged to reflect on their problem-solving strategies and identify mistakes in common problem-solving approaches.