Lesson 2.3 - Algebra 1 - Math Medic
Lesson 2.3 - Algebra 1 - Math Medic
Lesson 2.3 - Algebra 1 - Math Medic
Jenin is getting ready for an upcoming trip and wants to download her Spotify playlist so she can listen
offline on the plane. Her playlist of favorite jams has 440 songs on it.
1. She begins the download at 10:04. At 10:07, Spotify indicates that she has 305 songs left to download.
a. How many songs were downloaded from 10:04 to 10:07?
c. How many songs per minute is Jenin’s phone downloading from Spotify?
2. The table below gives the time (in minutes) since starting the download and the number of songs left to
download. Complete the rest of the table.
Time (minutes) 0 1 7 9
Number of songs left
440 305
to download
3. Kenny says that to find how fast Spotify is downloading songs, you can always take the number of songs
left to download and divide by how long the playlist has been downloading. Do you agree or disagree?
Explain.
4. Cairo is also downloading a playlist. The graph shows the relationship between the number
of songs left to download and the time since the start of the Number of songs left to download
download for both Cairo’s playlist and Jenin’s.
a. Label the line that represents Cairo’s playlist, and the line
that represents Jenin’s playlist.
b. Whose playlist is downloading faster? How do you know?
5. How many songs per minute are being downloaded onto Cairo’s
phone?
3. Grand Rapids Inflatable Rentals charges a set-up fee and an hourly rental fee for renting one of
their bounce houses. The table shows the cost of renting a bounce house for a certain number of
hours.
Time (hours) 1 3 5 7 9
Cost ($) 38 64 90 116 142
What is the hourly rental fee for the bouncy house? Show how you figured it out.
4. A frozen custard shop sells a medium shake with two mix-ins for $5.07 and a medium shake
with five mix-ins for $7.14. Assuming that each mix-in costs the same amount, what is the cost
of each mix-in?