Complete the following questions to practice the skills you have learned in this lesson.
- The expression represents the cost to purchase tickets for a concert, where is the number of tickets. A group of friends paid $79.25 for tickets. How many tickets were bought?
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12 tickets
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10 tickets
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8 tickets
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6 tickets
Use the following scenario to answer questions 2 – 4.
A model rocket is launched from a launchpad. The function modeling the height of the rocket, in feet, seconds after being launched is shown.
- Which equation would you solve to find the time at which the rocket hits the ground?
- Use a non-graphing method to find the solution to the previous equation to determine the time that has passed when the rocket hits the ground.
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5 seconds
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4 seconds
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3 seconds
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2 seconds
- How high off the ground is the launchpad from which the rocket lifts off?
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15 feet
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8 feet
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2 feet
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0 feet
Use the following scenario to answer questions 5 – 8.
The expressions and define the same function. The function models the number of lumens emitted by a spotlight in an art exhibit over the course of seconds.
- Which equation represents the time when the spotlight is not emitting any light?
- At what time(s) does the spotlight not emit any light?
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15 seconds
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Only 0 seconds
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10 and 25 seconds
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0 and 30 seconds
- The artist planned for the spotlight to emit 600 lumens at 10 seconds from the start. At what other time will the spotlight emit 600 lumens of light?
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30 seconds
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25 seconds
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20 seconds
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0 seconds
- At 5 seconds, the spotlight will emit 375 lumens. Find another time that the spotlight emits 375 lumens.
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25 seconds
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15 seconds
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10 seconds
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0 seconds
9-10.
A bowling alley models the revenue from sales in one day as a function of the cost to rent a lane per hour, . Here are two expressions defining the same revenue function.
- According to this model, how high would the cost to rent a lane have to be for the bowling alley to make $0 in revenue?
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16.0
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14.0
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10.0
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8.0
- What equation can you write to determine the lane cost that would allow the bowling alley to make $640 in revenue?