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CHAPTER 1

Mid - C h a p t er R ev i ew

LESSON

1. As a space station orbits Earth, astronauts see 15 sunrises

in 24 h.
a) Copy and complete this table for up to five Earth days.
Number of
Earth days
1

Number of sunrises seen

on the space station
15

2
3

b) How many sunrises would an astronaut see in seven

Earth days?
c) Shannon Lucid spent 188 Earth days on the space
station. How many sunrises could she have seen?
Use a pattern rule. Show your work.
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2. Tristen has $200 in his savings account. Starting next week,

he plans to add $10 each week.
a) Make a table to show Tristens balance after five weeks.
b) Write a pattern rule that tells how to calculate his
balance after any number of weeks.
c) How much will be in Tristens account after 52 weeks?

3. This sentence describes how many

days an astronaut is in space.
Earth days  h  24. The symbol h
represents the variable number
of hours in space. Calculate the
number of Earth days an astronaut
is in space for each value of h.
a) 48
c) 100
b) 96
d) 600

4. Kristen has a notebook with 64 pages.

Each day she uses six pages of the
book. On what day will she have
less than half of the notebook left?
Use a graph.

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