I was at Hy-Vee the other day filling up using our fuel save points when an interesting question popped into my head. I was thinking if you were a gas station attendant how could you know if a person was using a fuel saver and which pump had the highest fuel saver discount based on the number of gallons and fuel price.I made this activity to engage student thinking about Unit Rates and instead of fuel saver points they have to find which pumps are losing them money.
So I creepily took down the notes of every pump at the local Hy-Vee gas station, luckily enough I did the math on them all and had some surprising results.
The assignment is here: https://goo.gl/BYaiSn
It focuses on higher thinking about unit rates than we might typically cover.
After students complete this part of the task they have follow up questions:
- Which pumps need to be fixed?
- How much money was lost if we make $.10 on each gallon sold? Show your work.
- How much money did we make?
- How did you find your answers? (Write one paragraph)

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