Below is a copy of the review problem I gave students in class:
MSA Summative 2
Review
Jake and Sally both make breadsticks at the Hot Tomato. They are very competitive, and whoever makes
more breadsticks by the end of the night gets a $50 bonus. Use the problems below to find out who will
make more breadsticks and win the bonus.
1.
Sally times herself and she makes 48 breadsticks
in 6 minutes.
a.
What is Sally’s unit rate per minute?
b.
Make a table to show the relationship between
minutes and breadsticks for Sally.
c.
Make a graph to show the relationship between
minutes and breadsticks for Sally.
d.
Write an equation to represent Sally’s
breadsticks per minute.
e.
How is the unit rate shown in the table, graph,
and equation?
f.
What is the third coordinate pair on your
graph? What does each number in the
coordinate pair represent?
2.
Jake times himself and he makes 30 breadsticks
in 5 minutes, but he goes into work early and makes an extra 50 breadsticks to
give himself a head start. Answer
questions a-f for Jake instead of Sally.
3.
After how many minutes do both Sally and Jake have
the same amount of breadsticks?
4.
When is the latest they could stop working for
Jake to still win?
5.
What is the earliest they could stop working for
Sally to win?
Here is the answer key to the problem:
