YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Desert Temperatures In this assignment, you may work alone, with a partner, or in a small group. Discuss the results of your
work and/or any lingering questions with your teacher.
Temperature in the desert can be modeled by the function Ct), where r represents hours after middle
(Osts 24), and is the temperature measured in degrees Celsius. Examine what happens to the graph
when you transform the function to degrees Fahrenheit.
Circle the desert you picked:
Sahara Desert
Patagonian Desert
Death Valley California
Make sense of the Problem
3 points: 1 point for each answer
What do you know?
What do you want
to find out?
What kind of answers
do you expect?
Exploring Degrees Celsius
1. Fill out the following chart to find the temperatures for t = 12 (noon) and t= 24 (midnight). (2 points: 1
point for each row)