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CHAPTER 1
1
Goal
Planet
a calculator
Length of 1 day
(in hours)
Earth
24
Neptune
16
Denises Solution
I started to make a table, but I can
use patterns to answer the question.
Number
of days
Number of
hours on Earth
Number of
hours on Neptune
24
16
48
32
72
48
term number
A number that tells
the position of a
term in a pattern.
1, 3, 5, 7,
I can write a pattern rule using the term and term number:
Pattern rule: Each term is 24 multiplied by the term number.
1st term
2nd term
NEL
Reflecting
1. a) How can you use Denises rule to determine the
number of hours that would have passed on Earth
in 10 days?
b) How would you use your rule to determine the
number of hours that would have passed on
Neptune in 20 days?
2. In the past, you would have written a pattern rule
by describing how the pattern starts and how it can
be extended.
a) For the Earth hours pattern, describe how the
starting number and the number that describes
how you extend the pattern are related.
b) Is this true for the Neptune hours pattern? Explain.
Checking
3. It takes almost 10 h for 1 day on Jupiter.
a) Write the first few terms in the pattern for
the number of hours in Jupiter days.
b) Write a pattern rule like Denises for Jupiter.
Use the rule to determine the 15th term in
the Jupiter pattern.
NEL
Practising
4. a) Complete this table for Mars.
b) Write a pattern rule that will tell you
the number of hours on Mars for any
number of days on Mars.
c) Use your pattern rule to determine the
approximate number of hours in seven
days on Mars.
5. One astronomical unit (1 AU) is the
average distance from the Sun to Earth.
1 AU is about 150 million kilometres.
It takes light 0.14 h to travel 1 AU.
a) Write a pattern rule for calculating a
term in the pattern for the time light
takes to travel any number of
astronomical units.
b) It is about 5 AU from the Sun to Jupiter.
About how many hours does it take light
to travel from the Sun to Jupiter?
c) It is 30 AU from the Sun to Neptune.
About how many hours does it take light
to travel from the Sun to Neptune?
Mars
Number
of days
Number
of hours
24.75
2
3
Number of
astronomical units
0.14
0.28
0.42
0.56
NEL