Name ______________________________________ Period ___________ Date __________________
Skate Park Comparison
You and your friends want to go to a skate park on Saturday. There are two parks in your neighborhood, Sam’s Skate Park, and Brad’s Skate Park.
The parks both charge for skating at their park. Each parks price is described below.
Sam’s Skate Park: $3 to get into the park and $1 for every hour.
Brad’s Skate Park: $5 to get into the park and $0.50 for every hour.
Create a table of values that represents the total price at each skate park. Then plot the points from both tables on the graph provided. Write
the equation that represents the price for skating at each park.
equation: ______________
0
Brad’s Skate Park
x
(hours)
y
(total price)
1
2
3
4
equation: ______________
0
1
2
3
4
Answer the following questions.
1. Where do the two lines intersect?
2. What does this intersection mean?
3. Which park do you think you and your friend will go skating at?
Explain why you chose this park?
Total Price
Sam’s Skate Park
x
(hours)
y
(total price)
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
1
2
3
4
5
6
Number of Hours
7
Car Rental Comparison
Your family is planning a summer vacation to San Diego this summer. You are in charge of choosing the best car rental company to rent a car from.
You are comparing the Rent-a-Wreck and Hurts. The price plans for each company is described below.
Rent-a-Wreck: Charges a flat rate (meaning there is no charge for mileage) of $40 a day.
Hurts: Charges $25 a day and $0.50 per mile.
Create a table of values that represents the total price for renting a car for one day from each of these companies. Then plot the points from
both tables on the graph provided. Write the equation that represents the price of renting a car for one day for each company.
equation: ______________
0
Hurts
x
(number of miles)
y
(total price)
10
20
30
40
50
60
50
60
equation: ______________
0
10
20
30
Answer the following questions.
1. Where do the two lines intersect?
2. What does this intersection mean?
40
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Total Price
Rent-a-Wreck
x
(number of miles)
y
(total price)
10
3. Which company do you think you will go with?
Explain why you chose this company?
20
30
40
50
60
Number of Miles
70