Grading Period 2 Week 1

What is your goal for the second grading period?  What is something that you need to change in order to be more successful in math OR What is something that you need to keep your grade up in math?

GP 2 Week 2

A train leaves Chicago traveling to LA and is traveling at 40 mph.  2 hours later another train leaves heading in the same direction. The second train is traveling at 60 mph.  How long until the second train passes the first train?

GP 2 Week 3

The sum of 3 consecutive even integers is 216.  What are the integers?

Explain how you found your answer.

• Consecutive means "one after another", or "in a row". So ...
  The first 4 consecutive numbers are 1,2,3, and 4.
  The first 4 consecutive odd numbers are 1,3,5, and 7.

GP 2 Week 4

Write a real world situation that could be modeled by this equation:

y= 7x +40

GP 2 Week 5

When a real estate agent sells a house, the agent receives 6% of the sale price as a commission.  The agent lists the sale price for a house as $208,000.

a.  How much of a commission should the agent expect to receive for selling this house at full price?

b.  The house actually sells for $205,000.  How much of a commission does the agent receive?

GP 2 Week 6

Kim said her grocery items cost $25.86. Her mom said that twenty years ago the same items would have cost $20. At this rate, how much would it cost to purchase groceries now which would have cost $50 twenty years ago?

GP 2 Week 7

Kris lined cans in two rows on a shelf and had one left over; she tried again using three rows, and then four rows. Each time she had one can left over. Finally, she tried five rows, and had none left over! What possible numbers of cans could she have been working with?

This is you when you find out the answer

GP 2 Week 8

Wendy is starting a catering business and is attempting to figure out who she should be using to transport the food to different locations. She has found two trucking companies that are willing to make sure her food arrives intact. Peter’s Pick Up charges $0.40 per mile and charges a flat fee of $68. Helen’s Haulers charges $0.65 per mile and charges a flat fee of $23.

For what distance would the cost of transporting to the produce be the same for both companies? What is that equal cost?

GP 2 Week 9

Bin A and Bin B are cubes.  Bin A has an edge length of 6 in. Bin B has an edge length of 12 in. Hoe many times greater is the edge length of bin B that the edge length of Bin A?  How many times greater is the volume of bin B that the volume of bin A