Algebra+2+Honors

Algebra 2 Honors ** Q1 ** __ House Project __: Write two formulas. First, write a direct variation formula with the constant of variation being 15%. Show how the price of a house relates to the down payment if a bank is asking for an initial payment of 15%. Second, using joint variation write a three variable equation that has variables that represent price of a house, down payment, and the percentage a bank would ask for the initial down payment. Go online to research different prices of homes. Find five houses and put together a PowerPoint with pictures of the houses, addresses, and the joint variation formula. Use an online tool to show how much each down payment would need to be as different types of loans ask for different percentages down.

__ Painting the Gym __: Using only a ruler calculate how much paint the school would need to buy to repaint all the green areas of the gym floor and all the semi-circles white. Subtract out the word WINCHENDON on each of the baseline. Write up for homework: 1. Draw diagram and label dimensions of court. 2. Explain how to calculate total area of green and white paint. 3. How much paint is needed and cost, site website used. ** Q2 ** __ Lesson 20 Quiz – Income, Costs, and Profit __ : Show Lesson Practice J in Lesson 20 as example. Then break students into groups. If a watch salesman sells watches at $7 dollars per watch, and it costs him $10 to have the watches shipped to him, but only $2 per watch then...
 * 1) Write an income formula and write an expense formula.
 * 2) Graph Income and Cost Line.
 * 3) Through Cramer’s Rule or Graphing find break even point.
 * 4) Write a new equation for profit.
 * 5) Graph the profit line.

__ After Lesson 21 or 24 – Real World Systems __ :

__ After Lesson 29 – Real World Three Variable Systems __ : Use Excel or similar program to demonstrate how to write a program, using Cramer's Rule, to solve for three variable equations. Then solve following real-world problems.

__ Lesson 32 Problem 19 __ : Explore questions 19, break students into groups. Make problem about cans of soup. Have students generate an opinion on what they believe is the answer to question C. Have them write a paragraph explaining which can is a better economical option and why.

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