Honors Geometry – Period 4

Your assignment is to survey your parents, a friend,  or a relative about their auto and their gas mileage. Please ask them the following questions and report back.

1. What type of auto do they own ( Year, make and model) ?

2. What is the average number of gallons that they put in their auto when they fill it up?

3. What is the average number of miles that they can drive on a tank of gas?

4. What is their average miles per gallon?

5. What is the farthest that they have driven on one tank of gas ( in miles)?

Please answer your questions in complete sentences. This assignment is due on Wed. 5/20.

The following problems are to check your number sense skills.  Please answer the following five questions and include an explanation in your comments. This assignment is due Monday April 6th.

1. Consecutive numbers are whole numbers that follow in order such as 3,4,5. Find the smallest of the five consecutive numbers whose sum is 100.

2. A certain natural number is divisible by 3 and also 5. When the number is divided by 7, the remainder is 4. What is the smallest number that satisfies these conditions?

3. In the addition problem below to the left A,B, and C are digits. If C is placed in the tens column instead of the units column as shown below and to the right, the sum is 97. What are the values of A,B, and C?

   A B                    A B

 +   C                 +C

   5 2                    9 7

4.Suppose the counting numbers from 1 through 100 are written on paper. What is the total number of 3′s and 8′s that will appear on the paper?

5. In a group of 5 children, the average weight of each child was 72 pounds. When a sixth child joined the group, the average weight of each child became 73 pounds. What was the weight of the sixth child?

It is graduation day at Moo U., and the cows are waiting patiently to receive their degrees. The university clerk is watching as each graduate shakes hoofs with the university president. The  clerk notices that every third candidate receives a BBA ( Bachelor of Bovine Arts), every seventh graduate receives a CCD (Doctorate of Cud-Chewing) degree, every fourteenth a BS (Beef Science) degree, every ninth an HHA (Honorary Hoof Award), and every twenty-first an MA (Moo Award). Any cow who receives all five degrees and awards will win the coveted UB (Udderly Brilliant) award. How many cows out of the 260 graduating class will receive the UB award? Explain in detail how you found your answer .

Welcome to our class blog! I will be posting assignments here as well as any tips, etc. that I think you will need to refer to in order to be successful in this class. Check back often.

Our first assignment involves looking at a problem in your textbook on Page 298, #41. You are to review this exercise and then go to: http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/illusions.htm

You will view different optical illusions. Your fist assignment is to choose three of the illusions and write a comment on what you thought, like or dislike, and why and how it could relate to something that we havve done in our class.