Comparing and Scaling, Math Reflections Inv. 3 pg. 47 - use your book!



1a. The process for the unit rate could be the you divide 1.50 by 3 and get .5 and .5 times 3 equals 1.50.



1b. You could do price per pepper which means how much you pay per pepper you buy or you could do pepper per price which means pepper per money you spend.



1c. Picked today fruit stand sells peppers for .5 cents per pepper and fresh veggie sells peppers for .45 cents per pepper.





2.(Make a rate table for this problem for Picked Today. Hint- think of the independent variable – green peppers or total cost?)



3a.Write an equation to show the price for n peppers.

You could write an equation like this: price per pepper x n = total cost

Answer the following questions on YOUR blog as a post. Use the same title as mine for your post. Write your answers in complete sentences! An easy way to do this is to copy and paste the questions below onto your post and then put your answers in a different color!

1) What has to be the same in order for two parallelograms to be similar?

1) In order for the the two paralellograms to be similar the angles have to be the same.


2) Describe a way to find a missing side length in a pair of similar figures.

2) A way to find the missing side lenth is to divide or multiply a corrosponding side by the scale factor and you will have the answer.

3) I have a small isosceles triangle with a base of 3 inches and other sides are 4 inches.I want to create a similar isosceles triangle with a base of 7.5 inches.What should the other side lengths be and why?

3) The other side lengh of the side is 10 inches.