Name:___________________________

Period:_________

Part 1:
Your great friend Gertrude is the librarian at the city
library. She has worked at the library for over 30
years. Gertrude can shelve 5 books every minute.

1. Assuming that it takes the same amount of

time to shelve each book, how many books
did Gertrude shelve after 2, 3, 5, and 8
minutes and explain your reasoning?
Graph your findings. What does the graph
show/represent? Is the function linear?

2. How much time will it take the librarian to shelve 33 books and explain your
reasoning? Graph your findings. What does the graph show?

3. Are the functions from question one and two continuous, discontinuous, or neither?
If continuous, what makes them continuous? If discontinuous, what makes them
discontinuous? If neither, explain your reasoning?

4. What should Gertrude do if she has one more minute left of her shift and she has 7
books left to shelve? Explain your reasoning?
Name:___________________________
Period:_________
Part 2:
I just got a new kindle for my birthday and I am headed on a
road trip. Before I begin my road trip, I want to download
some books onto my kindle. I found that I can download
one book every two minutes.

1. How much time will it take to download 3, 4, then 7

books? Explain your reasoning.
Graph your findings. What does the graph show/represent?
Is the function linear?

2. My kindle died while it was in the middle of downloading a book. Now I have 5 and
books downloaded. How long did it take to download those books? Explain your
reasoning.
Graph your findings. What does the graph show?

3. Are the functions from question one and two continuous, discontinuous, or neither?
If continuous, what makes them continuous? If discontinuous, what makes them
discontinuous? If neither, explain your reasoning?

Part 3:
1. Compare the graphs from Gertrudes book shelving and the time it took to download
books onto my kindle. What makes them different? What makes them the same? What did
you discover?