Situation: Pretend you have a job building tricycles. The available materials are 100 handle bars, 150 wheels, 250 pedals, and 75 seats. Task: Draw or illustrate a tricycle with labelled parts such as handle bar, wheels, pedal and seat.
Questions: 1. How many tricycles could you build? 2. What material limits the number of tricycles that you can build? 3. How many pedals are left over after you have built the tricycles?