Performance Task

It's your best friend's birthday and you want to give a made-to-order cake as your present.

1. Design the cake and determine its dimensions. Your cake may have several layers and may not be
limited to the rectangular shape.

2. Assign a dimension and represent it by x.

3. Write expressions in terms of x to represent the other dimensions.

4. Write a polynomial function for the cake’s volume. Sketch the graph and note its properties.

5. Interview a baker to show your design and ask for its cost.

6. Look for a cardboard material that you may use to package your cake. Consider factors as stability,
cost, and the cake size.

7. Write a polynomial function for the box's volume in terms of its dimensions.

8. Sketch the graph and note its properties.

9. Present your work in class.

Note: You have two polynomial functions, one for the cake and the other for the box. Sour work will be
graded according to the following:

Criteria, Levels Beginning Developing Approaching Proficient Advanced

and Scores (B) (D) Proficiency (P) (A)
(AP)
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none of the properties. correctly explained. went beyond
properties are explained and the expected.
correct. presented.