Lesson 2 Practice Problems
1. A set of kitchen containers can be stacked to save space. The height of the stack is
given by the expression , where is the number of containers.
a. Find the height of a stack made of 8 containers.
b. A tower made of all the containers is 40.6 cm tall. How many containers are in
the set?
c. Noah looks at the equation and says, “7.6 must be the height of a single
container.” Do you agree with Noah? Explain your reasoning.
2. Select all values of that are solutions to the equation .
A. -7
B. -5
C. -3
D. 0
E. 3
F. 5
G. 7
3. The expressions and define the same function,
.
a. Which expression makes it easier to find ? Explain your reasoning.
b. Find .
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c. Which expression makes it easier to find the values of that make the equation
true? Explain or show your reasoning.
d. Find the values of that make .
4. A band is traveling to a new city to perform a concert. The revenue from their ticket
sales is a function of the ticket price, , and can be modeled with .
What are the ticket prices at which the band would make no money at all?
5. Two students built a small rocket from a kit and attached an altimeter (a device for
recording altitude or height) to the rocket. They record the height of the rocket over
time since it is launched in the table, based on the data from the altimeter.
time (seconds) 0 1 3 4 7 8
height (meters) 0 110.25 236.25 252 110.25 0
Function gives the height in meters as a function of time in seconds, .
a. What is the value of ?
b. What value of gives ?
c. Explain why .
d. Based on the data, which equation about the function could be
true: or ? Explain your reasoning.
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(From Unit 7, Lesson 1.)
6. The screen of a tablet has dimensions 8 inches by 5 inches. The border around the
screen has thickness .
a. Write an expression for the total area of the tablet,
including the frame.
b. Write an equation for which your expression is equal to 50.3125. Explain what a
solution to this equation means in this situation.
c. Try to find the solution to the equation. If you get stuck, try guessing and
checking. It may help to think about tablets that you have seen.
(From Unit 7, Lesson 1.)
7. Here are a few pairs of positive numbers
whose sum is 15. The pair of numbers that first second
have a sum of 15 and will produce the product
number number
largest possible product is not shown.
1 14 14
Find this pair of numbers.
3 12 36
5 10 50
7 8 56
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8. Kilometer is a measurement in the metric system, while mile is a measurement in the
customary system. One kilometer equals approximately 0.621 mile.
a. The number of miles, , is a function of the number of kilometers, . What
equation can be written to represent this function?
b. The number of kilometers, , is a function of the number of miles, . What
equation can be written to represent this function?
c. How are these two functions related? Explain how you know.
(From Unit 4, Lesson 15.)
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