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- Devin buys school lunch on Fridays and brings lunch Monday through Thursday. He has enough fruit and drink options to make different lunches for 16 days. Using the fundamental principle of counting, he must have 4 options each of fruit and drink. - Kevin brings lunch on Fridays and buys lunch Monday through Thursday. If he has 4 fruit options, he must have 2 drink options. Therefore, he can bring 8 different lunches on Fridays. - Devin spends $2.64 per meal while Kevin spends $2.10 per meal. So Devin spends $0.54 more per meal.

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PoTW091123 Solutions

- Devin buys school lunch on Fridays and brings lunch Monday through Thursday. He has enough fruit and drink options to make different lunches for 16 days. Using the fundamental principle of counting, he must have 4 options each of fruit and drink. - Kevin brings lunch on Fridays and buys lunch Monday through Thursday. If he has 4 fruit options, he must have 2 drink options. Therefore, he can bring 8 different lunches on Fridays. - Devin spends $2.64 per meal while Kevin spends $2.10 per meal. So Devin spends $0.54 more per meal.

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Each week, Devin buys school lunch on Friday because the cafeteria serves pizza every Friday.

Monday
through Thursday, Devin brings his lunch to school. The lunch he brings always includes a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich, a fruit and a drink. Devin has enough fruit and drink options to make a different
lunch every day that he brings lunch for the next four weeks. If Devin has the same number of fruit
options as he has drink options and he takes no days off from school, how many different fruit options
does he have?

In four weeks, there are 20 school days. Devin will be eating school lunch on 4 of those days. So, he has
enough fruit and drink options to make 20 − 4 = 16 different lunches. If Devin only had one option for
fruit and one option for his drink, that would be enough to make 1 unique meal. If he had two options for
each, Devin could make 2 × 2 = 4 unique meals since each fruit option could be paired with each of the
drink options (F1D1, F1D2, F2D1, F2D2). This is the Fundamental Principle of Counting, which says that if
you have m distinct varieties of one item and n distinct varieties of another item, there are m × n distinct
pairs consisting of one of each of the items. So, to get 16 different fruit and drink pairs, Devin must have
√16 = 4 different options for fruit (and 4 different options for drink).

Devin’s twin brother, Kevin, doesn’t eat pizza, so he brings a tuna salad sandwich, a fruit and a drink for
lunch every Friday. Monday through Thursday, however, Kevin buys lunch in the school cafeteria. Kevin
has twice as many fruit options as he does drink options. If Kevin has four fruit options, how many
different lunches can Kevin bring to school for his Friday lunch?

Kevin has 4 fruit options. That means Kevin has 4 ÷ 2 = 2 drink options. With 4 fruit options and 2 drink
options, there are 2 × 4 = 8 different lunches that Kevin could bring to school for his Friday lunch.

Each four-week period, Devin spends a total of $10.56 to buy pizza from the school cafeteria. Kevin pays
the same amount for each meal he buys from the school cafeteria and spends a total of $33.60 each
four-week period. How much more money is spent per meal by the twin who buys the more expensive
school lunch?

Each four-week period, Devin buys 4 school lunches and pays a total of $10.56. That’s 10.56 ÷ 4 = $2.64
per meal. Kevin pays a total of $33.60 each four-week period to buy 16 school lunches. That’s 33.60 ÷ 16
= $2.10 per meal. So, Devin spends 2.64 − 2.10 = $0.54 more per meal than Kevin.
Each week, Devin buys school lunch on Friday because the cafeteria serves pizza every Friday. Monday
through Thursday, Devin brings his lunch to school. The lunch he brings always includes a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich, a fruit and a drink. Devin has enough fruit and drink options to make a different
lunch every day that he brings lunch for the next four weeks. If Devin has the same number of fruit
options as he has drink options and he takes no days off from school, how many different fruit options
does he have?

Devin’s twin brother, Kevin, doesn’t eat pizza, so he brings a tuna salad sandwich, a fruit and a drink for
lunch every Friday. Monday through Thursday, however, Kevin buys lunch in the school cafeteria. Kevin
has twice as many fruit options as he does drink options. If Kevin has four fruit options, how many
different lunches can Kevin bring to school for his Friday lunch?

Each four-week period, Devin spends a total of $10.56 to buy pizza from the school cafeteria. Kevin pays
the same amount for each meal he buys from the school cafeteria and spends a total of $33.60 each
four-week period. How much more money is spent per meal by the twin who buys the more expensive
school lunch?

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