- A student sells balloons at a school fair, starting with 100 balloons. Each hour, the number of remaining balloons is counted and recorded in a table.
- After 1 hour there were 90 balloons remaining, and after 3 hours there were 70 balloons remaining.
- The student sells 10 balloons each hour, as shown by the pattern in the table.
- Using the expression 100 - 10h, where h is the number of hours passed, will predict the number of balloons remaining after any given number of hours.
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Solving Balloon Sales Problems
1. S C A F F O L D E D
Problem Solving A student sells balloons at the school fair. She starts with 100 balloons.
Every hour, she counts the remaining balloons. The numbers are shown
in the table below.
Hours Passed 1 2 3 4
Number of Balloons 90 80 70 60
23. How many balloons are remaining after 1 h? After 3 h?
24. How many balloons does the student sell each hour?
25. Which expression can you use to find the number of balloons
remaining after h hours?
10h 100 h 100 10 h
26. Use the correct expression to predict the number of balloons that
will be left after 6 h if the pattern continues.
27. If the pattern continues, after how many hours will the student run
out of balloons?
28. Writing in Math The cost in dollars of an n-mile trip with two taxi
1 + 2n
services is shown at the left. For rides between 1 and 3 mi, which
Supreme Taxi service would you choose? Explain.
Evaluate each expression for a 9 and b 4.
4+n
Townie Taxi 29. 11 a 6b 30. 2ab 31. 9b a b
C Challenge 32. Bob plays a game at the school fair. He starts with 0 points. He gets
25 throws. He wins 12 points for hitting the target and loses 8 points
for each miss. Bob ends with a score of 0. How many hits and misses
does Bob have?
Multiple Choice Practice and Mixed Review
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NS 1.2 33. Evaluate w w 2 for w 14.
7 14 21 28
NS 1.2 34. Mr. Vasquez can seat 200 people at his restaurant. So far tonight,
Mr. Vasquez has seated 8 booths with 6 people each. How many
empty seats are left in the restaurant?
48 seats 198 seats
152 seats 248 seats
Lesson 1-1 Simplify each expression.
35. ( 7 . 3 7 . 7) 3 36. 16 5 2.2 37. 27 3 6.8
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