PERFORMANCE TASK
Because of the super typhoon Yolanda, there was a big nood for blood donors,
medicines, doctors, nurses, medical aides, or any form of medical assistance. The Red Cross
planned to involve different agencies, organizations, and offices, public and private, local
and international, in their project to have massive medical services.
The Red Cross contacted first three of the biggest networks, and each of these
networks contacted three other networks, and agencies, organizations, and offices, and so
on, until enough of these were contacted. It took one hour for an organization to contact
three other organizations and all the contacts made were completed within 4 hours. Assume
that no group was contacted twice.
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1. Suppose you are one of the people in the Red Cross who visualized this project. How many
organizations do you think were contacted in the last round How many organizations were
contacted within 4 hours
2. Make a table to represent the number of organizations, agencies, and offices who could
have been contacted in each round.
3. Write an equation to represent the situation. Let the independent variable be the number
of rounds and the dependent variable be the number of organizations, agencies, and
offices that were contacted in that round.
4. If another hour was used to contact more organizations, how many additional
organizations, agencies, and offices could be contacted
5. Use the given information in the above situation to formulate problems involving these
concepts.
6. Write the necessary equations that describe the situations or problems that you
formulated.
7. Solve the problems that you formulated.
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