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Practice with Standard Form and Slope-Intercept Form
1. In its most recent game, the North High School girls’ basketball team scored 72 points not
including foul shots. A sports writer wonders how many 3 pointers and how many 2 pointers
could have been made.
a. Let x represent the number of 2-point goals and y the number of 3-point goals. Make a
table showing possible combinations that give a total of 72 points.
x
y
b. Plot these ordered pairs on a graph.
c. Draw a line through the points you have plotted.
d. What is an equation for the line?
Activity 4.5.5
CT Algebra I Model Curriculum Version 3.0