Representations of linear functions
Different prices

A gas station charges four different prices for gas: a day price, a night price, a weekend price, and a weekend night price. Each price is represented in a different way:

The day price is presented
in words:
Price per liter: $0.75
The night price is presented by a value table:
The weekend price is presented by a graph:
cost in dollars
amount in liters
The weekend night price is represented by a computing machine:
x
(liters)

f
f(x) (dollars)


What are the similarities and the differences among the different representations?

  • Show all four prices in the same representation and compare them.






  • At the gas station
    Different prices
    Cab fares
    Changing grades
    Fuel efficiency
    Postal rates
    Inverse machines
    Graphs describing motion
    Trucks
    Medical prescriptions
    Height and bone lengths
    Dividing a budget
    Electric bill
    Constructing functions

    Exercise 1
    Exercise 2
    Exercise 3
    Exercise 4
    Exercise 5