IM 8.4.16 Lesson: Solving Problems with Systems of Equations
A car is driving towards home at 0.5 miles per minute. If the car is 4 miles from home at , which of the following can represent the distance that the car has left to drive?
Solve each problem. Explain or show your reasoning.
Two friends live 7 miles apart. One Saturday, the two friends set out on their bikes at 8 am and started riding towards each other. One rides at 0.2 miles per minute, and the other rides at 0.15 miles per minute. At what time will the two friends meet?
Students are selling grapefruits and nuts for a fundraiser. The grapefruits cost $1 each and a bag of nuts cost $10 each. They sold 100 items and made $307. How many grapefruits did they sell?
Jada earns $7 per hour mowing her neighbors’ lawns. Andre gets paid $5 per hour for the first hour of babysitting and $8 per hour for any additional hours he babysits. What is the number of hours they both can work so that they get paid the same amount?
Pause here so your teacher can review your work. Then, invent another problem that is like one of these, but with different numbers.
Solve your problem.
Then, create a visual display that includes:
- The new problem you wrote, without the solution.
- Enough work space for someone to show a solution.
On a different Saturday, two friends set out on bikes at 8:00 am and met up at 8:30 am. (The same two friends who live 7 miles apart.) If one was riding at 10 miles per hour, how fast was the other riding?