Name: ______________________________ Strand: ________________

Performance Task: “Think, Solve, Explain”

Directions: Answer the following word problems involving rational functions. Solve each
problem carefully and neatly. Then, make a short video presentation to explain your work.
The rubrics attached will serve as your guide in answering the given task.

1. It will take you 10 hours to paint your garage and it will take your brother 15 hours to do
the same job. How long will it take if the two of you work together to paint the garage?

2. Parallel processing uses two or more computers, working together, to solve a single
problem. Using parallel processing, two computers can solve a problem in 20 minutes. If,
working alone, one computer can solve a problem in 9 minutes less than the time needed by
the second computer, how long would it take the faster computer working alone to solve the
problem?