© Mathalicious 2014
PIZZA PI
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Which size pizza should you order?
Act One: Personal Pan? 1 Calculate the total area for each pizza: large, medium, and personal. Then, calculate how much of the total area is the cheesy, delicious inside part, and how much is crust. Which size would you prefer and why?
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1-‐inch
1-‐inch
Area, Total
Area, Inside
Area, Crust
Crust Thickness
2 Most pizzas have a 1-‐inch wide crust. Based on this: a. Write functions for the total area, the inside area, and the crust area in terms of the radius, r.
b. For what size pizza is the inside area equal to the crust area…and would you order it?
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Act Two: Crusty Ain’t Just a Clown in Springfield 3 Conventionally, the size of a pizza refers to the diameter, not the radius. For a pizza with a 1-‐inch crust, rewrite the functions from before, but this time in terms of diameter. As the diameter increases, does each area – total, inside, and crust – change by a constant amount? Explain. Area, Total
Area, Inside
Area, Crust
4 For a pizza with a 1-‐inch crust, graph the percent of the total area that’s inside, and the percent that’s crust. Percent of Total Area
When you order pizza, how might you use this graph to decide which size to choose?
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