Math Analysis

Worksheet 1.4A Quadratic Applications Name _________________________________

1. The Word Alive a native Arizona band that is on tour and has been drawing
average crowds of 500 people. It is projected that for every $1.00 increase in the
$12 ticket price, the average attendance will decrease by 50. At what ticket price
will nightly receipts be $5,600?

2. Baby drives the get away car from one town to another, a distance of 120 kilometers. He drives 10
kilometers per hour faster on the return trip, cutting 1 hour off the time. How fast does he drive each way?

3. Charlie Eppes wants to gather the math department at CalSci to purchase a $150 microwave oven for the
department workroom. If four of the professors don’t contribute, everyone’s share will increase by $10. How
many professors are in the department?

4. Jack Sparrow drops his jar of dirt, and it will fall s feet in t seconds, where s = 16t 2.
How long will it take for his jar to hit the ground if it is dropped from the Sears Tower in
Chicago? (Hint: The tower is 1,454 feet tall)
5. The Army engineers have 2 squares that they need to lay brick for, the side of one square is 4 centimeters shorter than
the side of a second square. If the sum of their areas is 106 square centimeters, find the length of one side of the larger
square?

Square 1 Square 2

6. A part of a gutter breaks and we need the dimensions of the gutter. We are using a piece of sheet metal that is 18 in.
wide. If the cross-sectional area is 36 square inches, find the depth of the gutter part that we need to replace.

18 -2x

7. If Darius Rucker has a wagon wheel that has 10 more spokes, the angle between spokes would decrease by 6
degrees. How many spokes does the wheel have?