How many times can Kara listen to her entire playlist during a 35–minute car ride?
Question #8 This weekend, Kara will take a two–and–a–half hour road trip to visit her relatives. She wonders if she can listen to all the albums shown below.
Album
Length (in minutes)
Driving Fast
43
Silent Sister
58
Forever Funny
37
Today’s Five
45
The Barnyard
52
Free Bison
48
Can Kara listen to all of the albums on her road trip?
Explain why or why not.
Question #11 Kara decides to listen to the Free Bison album on the two–and–a–half hour road trip back home. She started playing it right at the beginning of the trip and has just finished listening to it 3 times in a row.
Use M to represent the number of minutes before Kara gets home.
Write an equation that could be solved to find how many minutes it will be before Kara gets home.
You can use the scrap paper to do any math to help you solve the problems. Then you will take a picture of that paper. Please do not erase your work. If you decide to try a new way to solve the problem, just cross out the old work and continue working.