LESSON

NAME _________________________________________________________ DATE ___________

9.1 Challenge: Skills and Applications

For use with pages 503–510

In Exercises 1–8, solve the equation. Write the solution as integers

if possible. Otherwise write them as radical expressions.

Example: x  32  5
Solution: x  32  5 ⇒ x  3  ± 5 ⇒ x  3 ± 5
1. x  22  25 2. x  52  9
3. x  72  10 4. 3x  12  24

Lesson 9.1
5. 10  2x  12  4 6. 2x  42  3  11
1

8. 5x  
3 2
7. 3x  52  17  2 4  2  43

In Exercises 9–11, use the following information.

Around 1590, the Italian scientist Galileo is said to have simultaneously
dropped two balls of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and
found that they reached the ground at the same time. If the balls were dropped
from a height of 20 meters, their height h above the ground t seconds after their
release is given by:

h  4.9t2  20
9. How long would it take the balls to reach the ground?
10. Rewrite the equation for dropping the balls from a height of 17 meters.
11. Suppose Galileo released a third ball from the same height 0.5 seconds
after the first two balls. Write an expression for the height of this ball
above the ground t seconds after the release of the first two balls.

Copyright © McDougal Littell Inc. Algebra 1 21

All rights reserved. Chapter 9 Resource Book