3.1+Renting+Bicycles+10-11

September 13th 2010

R.B.

**Essential Question**:"The tour operators decided to rent bicycles for their customers rather than having customers bring their own bikes. They called two bike shops and asked for estimates of rental fees.

**Big Idea:** ﻿The ob servation and description of changes in the world just part of find the patterns around us.

Rocky's Cycle Center sent a table of weekly rental fees for various number of bikes.


 * Number of bikes || 5 || 10 || 15 || 20 || 25 ||
 * Rental fee || $400 || 535 || 655 || 770 || 875 ||


 * 30 || 35 || 40 || 45 || 50 ||
 * 975 || 1070 || 1140 || 1180 || 1200 ||

Adrian's Bike Shop sent a graph of their weekly rental fees. Since the rental fees depends on the number of bikes, they put the number of bikes on the x-axis.

Income – Cost = Profit Cost-the amount of money to need to spend on things like food, drinks, etc. Income=money that you earn. Profit=the amount of money left after all the costs of running a business has been subtracted from the money earned.
 * Notes From Class: **

**A. Which bike should Ocean and History Bike Tours choose? Explain your choice.** Ocean and History Bike Tours should use both because if they only have a small amount of people for one tour they should use Adrian's Bike Shop because it is cheaper. If they have a big amount of people they should use Rocky's Cycle Center because it is cheaper. It really all depends on the amount of people they have.

I just compared the differences between each piece of data.
 * B. Explained how you use the information in the table and the graph to make your decision. **