NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

HOMEWORK

Removing Pennies from a Penny Jar

Here is a Penny Jar situation: Start with 95 pennies. Remove 4 pennies each round.

• 1 Make a table to show what happens for 8 rounds.

  Number of Rounds	Total Number of Pennies
  Start with
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
  6
  7
  8

• 2 When will there be 0 pennies in the jar? Show how you figured this out.

NOTE

Students use what they know about the starting number of pennies in the penny jar and the change in the number of pennies during each round to figure out the total number of pennies in a later round.

MWI A Table for a Penny Jar Problem

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