10.0 Minimizing Distance to a Cell Phone Tower

Geometry, modeling, and optimization

Students investigate the distance from a moving point on a line to another point in order to find a model and the minimum distance.

10.2 Teacher Worksheet with Notes (pdf)

Module 10 zipped file includes the following files:

10.1 Student Worksheet
10.2 Teacher Worksheet
10.3 Excel
10.4 TI Nspire™

                                                                        

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. DUE 0632883
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 


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