These web-based activities were developed, during summer sessions from 1997 through 1999, by students at Mainland High School, located in Daytona Beach, FL. As part of Mainland's CCTT grant, the students were given permission by the book's publisher to convert the ancillary materials of the County's adopted Algebra 1 Textbook into html format.
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Get Ready Questions
1. Find the cost of 1 ounce of shampoo for each size bottle. The first two sizes are started for you.
| Size | Weight | Total price | Unit Price |
| travel | 2 oz | $1.25 | 1.25 / 2 |
| regular | 8 oz | $3.49 | 3.40 / 80 |
| family | 14 oz | $5.49 | |
| economy | 24 oz | $8.49 |
2. Which shampoo has the lowest unit price?
3. There is 7 times the amount of shampoo in the family size as in the travel size. How does the unit price of the family size compare with the unit price of the travel size?
Your Own Consumer Research
Remember that you are to investigate 10 separate items each having at least two different sizes.
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Career Connection to Teaching with Technology