Determine Possible Outcomes

Today you will be finding all of the possible combinations/outcomes.

#1 You need to find all of the combinations and outcomes for jackets and shoes. The chart gave us a white, black, and green jacket, and black, tan, and white shoes.
The directions ask you to make a tree diagram, you can also use a t-chart.

To make a t chart we need to pick one jacket color to focus on first. Let's pick white. Next to white, we will write the colors of the shoes.

White - Black
White - Tan
White - White

You will repeat this for each jacket color.

Black - Black Green - Black
Black - Tan Green - Tan
Black - White Green - White

Now find all of your color combinations. That number is the total possible outcome for this problem.

If you want to write it in a tree diagram you will essentially do the same thing. First, write each color jacket. Then draw three lines off of each jacket color. At the end of these lines you will write the shoe color. Lastly, you will write the actual combination you made. :)

_______Black WB
White __Tan WT
_______White WW

_______Black BB
Black __Tan BT
_______White BW

________Black GB
Green __Tan GT
________White GW

The two letter combinations represent your total possible outcomes.




Spiral Review:

#2 Two movie tickets cost $18 dollars(expensive right? that's why I don't go to the movies anymore). Thea and 3 friends want to go to the movies. That's 4 tickets, Thea plus her three friends. Since they already told us that 2 tickets cost $18, another 2 will also cost $18. Remember we need 4 total tickets. Usually when you see the word "total" it means you are going to create an addition problem. This means you need to add $18 plus $18, to find out how much it will cost Thea and her friends to go to the movies.

#3 Salma is reading a 300 page book. She's already read 60 pages, and she wants to finish it in the next 3 weeks.
Our first step is to figure out how many pages she has left to read. To do this you need to subtract the total number of pages with the number she's read. That will be 300 - 6. If you subtract properly, be careful around those zeroes, then you should get 240 as the number of pages that Salma has left to read.
She needs to read all 240 pages over the next 3 weeks. You will need to divide the pages equally over the next 3 weeks. If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, yes, I do want you do divide 240 by 3. But let me make it easier on you. Let's drop the zero. Now divide 24 by 3. If you sing your 3's song, that will help you get to the solution. Now add that pesky zero back to the end of your solution. I won't say the answer here, but you have just found the answer as to how many pages Salma needs to read each week to finish her book. :)

#4 This one is a tad more complicated. Marcus has $15 to spend on baseball cards. Each box is $2.50. First let's find out how many boxes Marcus can buy. Add $2.50, until you reach $15. You should have found out that he can buy 6 boxes of baseball cards. This is NOT the answer! The question is asking you to find the total number of cards, not boxes. They told us that there are 10 cards in a box. If Marcus has 6 boxes, with 10 cards in each box, how many cards will he have? You can either multiply 10 by 6, or draw six boxes, and write a number ten in each one. Either way, you will get to the same solution. :)