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4. SHOPPING Paula has $25 to spend at the mall. After shopping, she counts her money and finds she has $2.65 left. How much money did Paula spend at the mall? HOCKEY STANDINGS For Exercises 57, use the information in the table below. In the National Hockey League, wins (W) are worth 2 points, while ties (T) and overtime losses (OTL) are each worth 1 point. The table shows team standings at the end of a recent hockey season.
PACIFIC Anaheim Los Angeles Phoenix Dallas San Jose GP 82 82 82 82 82 W 29 28 22 41 43 L 35 29 36 26 21 T 10 16 18 13 12 OTL 8 9 6 2 6
1. THEATER SEATING The number of seats in the first 5 rows of the Majestic Theatre is as follows: 10, 14, 18, 22, and 26. Assuming the pattern continues, how many seats are in the next row? 2. COMMUTING Aishas first summer job requires her to travel downtown. She is interested in finding out how most people get to work each day, so she finds the results of an online survey. According to the survey below, what percent of the workers walk to work?
Workers Ages 16 and Over Drive alone Carpool Take public transit Walk
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Number 7,862,418 1,120,982 144,959 138,496 149,641 346,626
Other means Work at home
Source: NHL Final Standings20032004
3. BEST BUY Roger likes to eat Crunchy Flakes cereal for breakfast every morning. Crunchy Flakes comes in a 20-ounce box that costs $4.20 and a 30-ounce box that costs $6.00. Explain which box of cereal is the better buy.
5. How many points did Anaheim earn in all? 6. Which team finished with the most points? 7. List the teams in order from greatest to least points earned during the season.
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BASEBALL For Exercises 5 and 6, use the information in the table below. Both the American League and the National League in Major League Baseball select a most valuable player (MVP) each year. Twenty-eight sports journalists rank order five players that they think deserve the honor. The points are awarded according to the table below. The player with the highest total receives the award.
Rank Order First place Second place Third place Fourth place Fifth place Points 14 9 8 7 6
1. COMIC BOOKS Malcolm has 62 comic books and his friend Meg has 49 comic books. What numerical expression represent the total number of comic books they have together? 2. MUSEUM The Simpson family visited the local museum one afternoon. Ticket prices are shown below.
Ticket Adult (1964) Student (1218) Child (311) Senior Citizen (65) Price $17.50 $9.00 $6.00 $7.00
Write an expression that can be used to calculate the total price the Simpson family paid for 2 adult, 2 student, 1 child and 1 senior citizen ticket.
3. TEMPERATURE One citys warmest day of the year reached 107F. The coldest day of the year fell to 17F. Write a numerical expression to represent the difference in temperature on those two days. 4. DIMENSIONS Marco is drawing a rectangle with a length of 12 inches and width of 10 inches. Write an expression to represent the perimeter of the rectangle.
5. Player A received 21 votes for first place, 5 votes for second place, 1 vote for third place, and 1 vote for fourth place. Write an expression to represent the number of points Player A earned.
6. Player B received 1 vote for first place, 14 votes for second place, 9 votes for third place, 2 votes for fourth place, and 2 votes for fifth place. Write an expression to represent the number of points Player B earned.
7. Did Player A or Player B win the award? Explain.
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4. TEMPERATURE The formula that is used to convert Fahrenheit (F) to Celsius (C) is C (F 32) 1.8. Convert 77F to degrees Celsius. NUTRITION For Exercises 57, use the information in the table below. Mr. Jacobs is teaching a unit on nutrition. The class has learned that each gram of fat contains 9 Calories, each gram of carbohydrates has 4 Calories, and each gram of protein has 4 Calories. He has his students research the nutritional facts of sandwiches served in the school lunch room.
Total Calories 580 360 440 560 390 190
1. DROUGHT The farmers in Ravins town complained about the lack of rain during the growing season. Ravin did some research to find out how much rain typically falls during the growing season compared to the amount of rain during this growing season. She learned that it had rained 7 inches less than normal this season. Write an expression that represents the amount of rain this growing season.
2. REPAIRS Deidres car needs to be repaired. The cost of the repair is going to be $40 per hour for labor and an additional $120 for parts. Write an expression that would represent the cost of getting the car repaired if a mechanic works on it for h hours.
Nutrition Facts Hamburger Grilled chicken sandwich Tuna wrap
Fat (g) 29 7 32 24 8 6
3. RETAIL SALES Amara works in his parents clothing shop after school. Sometimes, he prices new merchandise for sale. He uses the table below to determine what the retail price of a piece of clothing should be. Based on the prices in the table, write an expression that Amara could use to calculate the retail price (R) given the cost price (C).
Meatball sub Veggie wrap Turkey breast wrap

Source: http://www.fatcalories.com/results/
5. Write an expression to determine the grams of protein and carbohydrates of a grilled chicken sandwich.
Cost 14 18 24 30 100
Retail 21 27 36 45 150
6. How many Calories of fat are in a meatball sub? 7. What percent of the total Calories in a veggie wrap come from fat?
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BASEBALL For Exercises 5 and 6, use the information in the table below. One statistic used in baseball is percent (PCT) or the number of games a team has won of all of the games played to date. Alfie plays for the Lions in his town league. The table below shows the standing at the end of the season.
Team Lions Bears Bullhorns Wins 15 14 8 Losses 5 6 12 PCT 0.75 0.7 6
1. TRAVEL Mike and his family are driving from Dallas to Fort Worth, a distance of 30 miles, to visit a cousin. Then, they will drive from Fort Worth to San Antonio, a distance of 229 miles, to visit his grandparents. On the way back, Mike reverses his trip and travels from San Antonio to Dallas through Forth Worth. Write one equation to show the distance traveled from Dallas to San Antonio, and a second equation to show the distance traveled from San Antonio to Dallas. What do you notice about the distance traveled each way?
2. SHOPPING Sara is buying some new clothes for school. She buys a pair of shoes for $65, a blouse for $42, jeans for $58 and a skirt for $35. Using the Associative and Commutative Properties of Addition, add the prices so that the total cost can be found easily with mental arithmetic.
5. Alfie used the Commutative Property and divided 20 by 8 to find the percent for the Bullhorns. What error did Alfie make?
3. CLOTHES Most people wear both socks and shoes when they go to work. When getting dressed, is putting on socks and shoes a commutative process? Explain.
6. Alfie knows that the Mavericks have won 11 out of 20 games. He subtracts to find that the Mavericks lost 9 games. What error did Alfie make?
4. COMBINATIONS A special lock has a unique combination lock. A value is assigned that opens the lock, and any combination of single-digit numbers and operations, with or without parentheses, will open the lock. For example, if 40 is the value assigned to the lock, then 8 5 or 12 28 will open the lock. Find 3 different ways to unlock the lock if the combination is 17.
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PUBLIC TRANSIT For Exercises 57, use the information in the table below. The Area rapid transit system charges the following fees for riding buses and trains.
Bus (single fare) Train (single fare) $1.25 $1.25 $40.00
1. AGE RELATIONSHIPS Gails mother is 4 years older than 3 times Gails age. Write an equation to show the relationship between Gails age g and Gails mothers age m.
2. CURRENCY EXCHANGE Suppose one U.S. dollar is worth 10.67 Mexican pesos. Write an equation that can be used to find the value of 500 pesos in U.S. dollars d.
Monthly Pass (bus and train)
5. Samuel averages 6 bus and 2 train trips per week. Write and solve an equation to determine his weekly transportation cost.
3. ALL IN A DAYS WORK Elise mows lawns during the summer to earn money. She charges an hourly rate to mow a lawn. The table below shows some amounts she charges. How much does Elise charge per hour?
6. Write and solve an equation to determine the number of bus and train trips Samuel needs to take in a month in order to make it worthwhile to purchase a monthly pass.
Hours 3 5 8 12
Pay $18.15 $30.25 $48.40 $72.60
7. If the transit system holds a sale on bus passes and charges $20.00 for unlimited rides for 4 weeks, would it benefit Samuel to buy one? Explain.
4. GOING FOR A RIDE Orange Cab, a local cab company, charges a flat fee of $2.50 plus $0.40 for every quarter mile a passenger travels. How much would an 8-mile cab ride cost?
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4. PARK LOCATIONS Hannah is taking her younger sister, Shania, to the park. Shania wants to go to the petting zoo. What is the location on the petting zoo on the grid?
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Kate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8x O y Swings
1. NEIGHBORS Kate lives at the home found at the origin of the grid below. Each grid line represents one block. Her friend Hector lives 4 blocks east and 6 blocks north of Kate. Place his house on the grid.
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 O y
Petting Zoo Sand pit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8x
ENERGY COSTS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the information in the table below. 2. NEIGHBORS In the grid for Exercise 1, Gail lives 3 blocks west and 2 blocks south of Hector. Where is Gails house in relation to Kates? Maya is researching energy costs. She made a table of the cost for different numbers of gallons of gasoline. 5. Find the missing values to complete the table.
Gallon (g) 4 8
Cost (c)
$15.60
3. FENCING Henry is building a fence in his backyard for his new puppy. He has 36 feet of fencing and wants a fence in a rectangular area. What is one set of whole number dimensions of the fencedin area?
12 $39.00
6. Graph the data on the grid and connect the points in a straight line.
40 36 32 28 24 20 16 12 8 4 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Gallons
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MPG Weight (highway) (lb) 24 30 30 32 40 32 34 28 32 38 30 3155 3640 3135 2730 2810 2980 2815 3545 2605 2595 3330
1. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT The school nurse recorded the height and weight of the students in Brigittes class. The nurse made a scatter plot of the data. What kind of relationship does the scatter plot show?
Make Acura Buick Chevrolet
240 200 Weight (lb) 180 160 140 120 100 0 60 65 70 Height (in.) 75
Dodge Honda Hyundai Mazda Nissan Pontiac Toyota Volkswagon
2. RELATIONSHIPS Rodney has collected data about his classmates height and the month and day of their birthday. He will plot the data in a scatter plot. What relationship should Rodney expect to find between the two variables? 3. ARE THEY RELATED? Explain in your own words whether a scatter plot of height vs. intelligence would show a positive, negative, or no relationship.
Source: www.consumerreports.com
4. Make a scatter plot of the information in the table.

4000 3800 Weight (pounds) 3600 3400 3200 3000 2800 2600 0 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 Miles Per Gallon
CARS For Exercises 4 and 5, use the following table. Ann did a study of the weghts and fuel economy of different cars. She put the information she collected into a table.
5. What type of relationship, if any, exists between the plotted data values? Explain.
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4. BANKING One page in Joes check register looks like the following table. How do the total deposits compare with the total withdrawals? Description Deposit Withdrawal Balance Movies $15 $360 Paycheck $300 $660 Gas $25 $635 Groceries $50 $585 Car $150 $235
1. ELEVATION The surface of the Dead Sea is 1312 feet below sea level. Use an integer to express the surface of the Dead Sea in relation to sea level.
2. FOOTBALL During a football game between the Eagles and the Bears, the quarterback of the Eagles was tackled for a loss of six yards. Use an integer to express the Eagles new location on the football field in relation to their previous location.
3. WINDCHILL The windchill factor, shown in the table below,indicates how much colder the wind feels than the actual outdoor temperature. How much colder does it feel when the outdoor temperature is 10F and the wind is blowing at 10 miles per hour?
GOLF For Exercises 57, use the following information. Joe is a golfer. He keeps track of his scores by noting the difference between his score and par, the number of swings it should take the ball to descend into the hole. The scorecard below shows Joes scores from a recent round of golf. Big Lake Hole 1 2 3 Par 4 4 5 Score 2 1 1 Hole 10 11 12 Par 4 4 4 Score 1 0 0 Country Club 4 5 6 7 4 4 3 3 1 0 2 1 13 14 15 16 3 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 8 9 4 5 0 2 17 18 4 5 1 1
Windchill Factor
Wind (mph) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 20 13 9 6 4 3 1 0 1 Temperature (F) 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 7 1 5 11 16 22 28 3 4 10 16 22 28 35 0 7 13 19 26 32 39 2 9 15 22 29 35 42 4 11 17 24 31 37 44 5 12 19 26 33 39 46 7 14 21 27 34 41 48 8 15 22 29 36 43 50
5. Compare Joes scores on the 7th and 13th holes.
6. Compare Joes scores on the 6th and 18th holes.
7. Write the scores for the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 8th holes in the order from least to greatest.
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STOCKS For Exercises 57, use the table below. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is an index that tracks the performance on the New York Stock Exchange of 30 of the largest companies in the United States. The table below shows the change in the DJIA on a given trading day. Dow Jones Industrial Average Time Change (Dollars) 10:00 3.00 12:00 5.00 2:00 2.00 4:00 6.00 5. Write an expression to show the change in value of the Average during the day.
1. DIVING Submarine descended 32 feet below the surface. It rose 13 feet to look at a coral reef. Write an addition sentence to find its current depth.
2. WEATHER In January, the temperature at the summit of Mt. Everest averages 36C and can drop as low as 60C. In July, the average summit temperature is 17C warmer. What is the average temperature at the summit of Mt. Everest in July?
3. EARTH SCIENCE Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America and the fifth highest in the world. When viewed from the valley, it appears to be a single waterfall. However, it actually has three parts. The upper fall has the longest drop of 1430 feet. The middle cascade is 675 feet long, and the lower fall drops another 320 feet. What is the total length that the water falls?
6. The Average closed the day before at 10,812. What was the index at noon?
4. ROLLER COASTER The platform of a roller coaster is 5 feet off the ground. The first hill rises an additional 122 feet. The first drop is 118 feet. How far off the ground is the roller coaster after the first drop?
7. By the end of the day, did the Average gain or lose value? Explain your reasoning.
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4. GOLF Jim and Tom played against each other in a golf tournament. Jims final score was 6 under par, the average number of swings it should take a golfer to get his ball in the hole. Toms score was 1 under par. Describe the outcome of their match.
1. SWIMMING The diving board at Mikes pool is 3 feet above the water level. Mike stepped off the diving board and sank until his feet touched the bottom of the pool, which is 12 feet deep. How many feet did Mike descend from the diving board to the bottom of the pool?
2. TEMPERATURE During a 24-hour period, the high temperature was 18F. The low temperature was 4F. What was the temperature range for the day?
BIRDS For Exercises 57, use the following information. An osprey was flying at an altitude of 80 feet above the ocean surface. The osprey spotted a fish and dove to a depth of 3 feet below the surface of the water to capture the fish. Once the osprey caught the fish, it ascended to a tree branch that was 25 feet above the ground.
3. PETS The American Kennel Club (AKC) is the largest and second oldest purebred dog registry in the world. The table below shows some breeds registered with the AKC. Describe the changes in the number of beagles and chihuahuas registered from 2003 to 2004. Breed Golden Retriever Beagle Dachshund Poodle Chihuahua Siberian Husky 2003 52,520 45,021 39,468 32,162 24,923 10,660 2004 52,550 44,555 40,770 32,671 24,850 10,566
6. How far did the osprey descend to catch the fish?
Source: www.akc.org/reg/dogreg_stats.cfm
7. What was the total change in altitude, both up and down, of the osprey from first spotting the fish to landing on the branch?
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5. What was the change in altitude from where the osprey stated to where it landed?
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STOCKS For Exercises 57, use the information in the table below. Company Z is selling stock in its company for the first time. The initial selling price for the stock was $33.00. The table below shows the selling price throughout the morning of the first day. Stock Z Time 9:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:00 P.M. Price $33.00 $30.00 $27.00 $24.00
1. BUSINESS Many companies sell shares in the company in order to raise additional money to invest in new projects. Mr. Monroe purchased 10,000 shares of a new company at $3.12 per each share. How much money did Mr. Monroe spend to purchase the shares?
2. AVIATION An airplane is approaching its destination has begin its final descent into the airport. If the plane descends at a rate of 300 feet per minute, what is the change in altitude of the plane after four minutes?
5. How would you describe the rate of change in price per hour?
3. FLOODS Heavy snows and rains caused the river near Harveys house to flood. When the river crested, it was 5 feet above its normal level. The water started to recede at a rate of 2 inches per day. How many feet did the river recede after 14 days?
6. If this rate stays constant, how much would the stock lose in 5 hours?
7. If this rate stays constant, how many more hours will it take for this stock to be worthless?
4. WATER PRESSURE For every 33 feet a scuba diver descends below the surface of the water, the water pressure increases by about 15 pounds per square inch. A diver reaches the bottom of a lake that is 99 feet deep. What is the water pressure?
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4. SKYDIVING The time an object is in v freefall is given by the formula t 2g where v is the final velocity, g is gravitational constant of 32 ft/sec2 and t is the time of the fall. A skydiver jumps out of a plane at 6000 feet. How long did it take to reach the final velocity of 96 feet per second?
1. ELEVATOR Hans is at the observatory of the Empire State Building in New York City. The observatory is on the 86th floor of the building. Hans will take the elevator down from the 86th floor to the first floor, a distance of 320 meters. If the ride takes 50 seconds to descend, what is the rate of descent in meters per second?
2. TEMPERATURE Lydia and her family live in Canada. During the month of February, Lydia recorded the average daily temperature for one week. Her results are shown in the table below. What was the average for that week? Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 3C 4C 0C 2C 0C 3C 1C
TESTS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Jessica received these scores on her first four tests in math class. 86, 88, 93, 90 5. What is Jessicas average score on the four math tests?
3. ENERGY Most energy produced in the industrialized world comes from fossil fuels. The table below shows the energy production from fossil fuels in the United States for 2000. What was the average total energy produced from fossil fuels per month? Round to the nearest tenth. Source British thermal units (Btu) (in quadrillions) 23 20 12
6. Jessica wants to earn at least a 90 in her class. She has one more test before the end of the marking term. What must she score on that test in order to have an average of 90 for the grading period?
Source: www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/eh/frame.html
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7. Based on the scores Jessica has earned to date, is it possible for her to have an average of 95 for the grading period? Explain. Assume that each test is worth a maximum of 100 points.
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MAPS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Lashawn and his friends are planning a trip to an amusement park. They use the map below to plan out their trip to the park.
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1. MAPS Brenda noticed that the reptile building at the zoo was located at the point (3, 4) on the zoo map. Name the quadrant of the map that the reptile building is in.
2. DIRECTIONS Joe and his family are visiting their cousins who have just moved to a new house. Joe and his family are located at the origin of the map and their cousins house is located at (3, 5). Assuming that each interval on the map is one city block, how many city blocks in each direction do Joe and his family need to go to get to their cousins' new house?
Rollercoaster Bungee Jump
Snack Bar
Waterslide
5. What are the coordinates of the roller coaster and water slide? 3. SCALE DRAWINGS Jimmy made a scale drawing of his back yard on a coordinate grid. The corners of his pool are located at (4, 2), (4, 2), (1, 2), and (1, 2). Name the quadrant in which each point is located.
6. Which amusement is located at (3, 2)?
4. CITY PLANNING On the map of Janine's hometown, the movie theater is located at (4, 2). The bowling alley is located at (4, 2). What would be a good location for a restaurant that would be the same distance from the theater and the bowling alley? Explain.
7. If you are located at (2, 1), which amusement are you closest to? Explain.
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4. GEOMETRY Jonah drew two squares with the same dimensions. He then added 2 inches to the length of one square to make it a rectangle. He also added 2 inches to the width of the other square to make it a rectangle. Write an equation that compare the perimeters of the two rectangles.
1. FARMING Mr. Johannsen has a farm with 3 cows, 8 chickens, and some ducks. If the total number of farm animal legs is 40, how many ducks does Mr. Johannsen have on his farm?
2. STAMPS Amy buys retired stamps from the U. S. Postal Service catalog. Last month, she bought 8 $0.37 Candy Hearts, 8 $0.48 Niagara Falls, and 8 $0.80 Special Olympics stamps. How much did Amy spend on stamps in all?
SAVINGS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Daniel wants to buy a bicycle that costs $200.00. He saves the same amount each month from the money he earns mowing lawns. He also saves $15.00 of his monthly allowance. 5. If x represents the amount he earns mowing lawns each month, write an expression to show Daniels total savings after 8 months.
3. FUND-RAISING The table shows the cookie sales for Tinas troop. If each box costs $3.50, show two ways that Tina could find the troops total cookie sales.
Kind of Cookie
Mint Vanilla sandwich Peanut butter
Number of Boxes
60 boxes 42 boxes 56 boxes
6. If Daniel earns $25 each month mowing lawns, how long will it take him to save enough money to buy his bicycle?
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4. SHOPPING Three families recently ordered jeans from a catalogue. The Rodriguez family ordered twice as many jeans as the Gomez family, and the Jimenes family ordered 4 times as many jeans as the Gomez family. Write an expression to show how many jeans each family bought.
1. ANIMAL SHELTER There are 15 dogs, 22 cats, and 4 rabbits at a shelter. Each dog needs a collar, a bowl, and a toy. Each cat needs a collar and a bowl. In addition, one scratching post is needed for all of the cats. Each rabbit needs a bowl. Write an expression is simplest form to show the total number of collars c, bowls b, and toys t, that the animal shelter needs for its resident animals.
AMUSEMENT PARKS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information.
Family
McGraw Churchill Sanchez
Adults
2 1 2
Children
3 2 1
Seniors
1 2 1
6x 2
3x
x3 4x 1
5x 2
The admission tickets cost was $40 for adults, $25 for children, and $27 for seniors. 5. Write an expression in simplest form to show how much it costs all adults a, children c, and seniors s from the three families to attend the amusement park.
3. SCHOOL SUPPLIES Mr. Raphael needs to buy notebooks for his children to start the school year. His son Manny needs some notebooks. His daughter Daphne needs twice as many as does Manny. His other daughter Ophelia says she needs one fewer than 3 times as many as Manny needs. If Mr. Raphael buys x notebooks for Manny, how many notebooks will he need to buy in all? Write an expression in simplified form to show how many notebooks Mr. Raphael needs to buy.
6. Write an expression to find how much the three families spent in all for admission tickets.
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2. GEOMETRY Rangleys father is making a walkway in the back yard. He will use large tiles for the walkway like the one shown below. Write an expression in simplified form for the perimeter of the pentagon.
Three families went to Six Flags together. The number of people in each family is listed in the table.
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Malden
1. DISTANCE Route 27 runs from Bakersville to Malden through Smilyville. The distance from Bakersville to Smilyville is 81 miles, and the distance from Bakersville to Malden is 204 miles. What is the distance from Smilyville to Malden?
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Smilyville Bakersville
4. MOUNTAIN CLIMBING Mt. McKinley in Alaska is the highest mountain in North America at 20,320 feet. A climbing team starts its ascent from a base camp at 2000 feet and ascends 15,235 feet. The team then descends 183 feet before ascending 398 feet. How many more feet must the team ascend to reach the summit?
WEIGHTLIFTING For Exercises 57, use the following information.

1 innings, the Cubs 2. BASEBALL After 8 2
are winning the baseball game. How many runs must the Mariners score in the bottom of the ninth inning if they want to win the game?
Eve and Jason have an exercise routine that they do together three days a week. Together, they can lift 225 pounds. 5. If Eve can lift 113 pounds, how many pounds can Jason lift?
Cubs Mariners
15 1 4
6 2 1
7 0 2
8 5 2
9 3
6. If Eve can lift 87 pounds, how many pounds can Jason lift?
3. SHOPPING Katie has $200 to buy supplies for her camping trip to Moran State Park. She buys dried food for $49, 2 sleeping bags for $55.95 each, and 3 disposable cameras for $8.25 each. How much money, if any, does Katie have left?
7. What expression can be used to find p, how many pounds Jason can lift if Eve can lift x pounds?
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4. RESTAURANT Kurt and four friends are eating in the food court at South Center Mall. They will divide the bill equally among the five of them. Two friends order hamburgers and two order pizza. All of them order soda. Kevin has only $3.75 with him. What can Kurt order to so that each will pay only $3.75?
Hot dog
$2.50
1. GEOGRAPHY The state of Texas has an area of approximately 266,806 square miles. Its area is approximately 220 times the area of the state of Rhode Island. What is the area of Rhode Island?
Pizza
$1.75
Hamburger
$3.25
Soda
$1.25
2. DISTANCE Josh and his brother will drive from Boston to New York, a distance of 220 miles. If they drive an average speed of 55 miles per hour, how long will it take Josh and his brother to arrive in New York?
COOKING For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. The holiday dinner is at the Miltons house this year. Mrs. Milton will do most of the cooking.
Planet
Earth Mars Saturn
Mean distance to the Sun (kilometers)

149,600,000 227,900,000 2,870,000,000
6. Mrs. Milton will make 6 pounds of yams.

1 pound of yams, how If one person eats 2
Source: NASA Solar System Exploration
many people can Mrs. Milton serve with 6 pounds of yams?
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3. ASTRONOMY The table shows the mean distances in kilometers from the Sun to several planets. If a rocket is traveling at 32,000 kilometers per hour, how long would it take the rocket to travel from Earth to Saturn?
5. Cooking time for a turkey is determined 1 hour per pound. Mrs. using the rate of 3 Milton figures she will have at most four hours to cook the turkey. What is the largest turkey she should buy?
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4. DOG PARK The perimeter of a local dog park measures 156 feet. If the length of the park is 2 feet less than 3 times the width, what are the dimensions of the dog park?
1. POPULATION The population of Laredo is 176,576, which is 29,888 greater than twice the population of Longview. What is the population of Longview?
2. SIZE A ranch in Wyoming is approximately 825,000 acres. If 8,684 zoos could fit inside the ranch, with 20 acres of ranch left over, how many acres does each zoo cover?
TRAVEL For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Four members of the Kaplan family will take a river trip down the Colorado River in Colorado State Park. The rafting company charges $10 per day to rent the raft and $15 per person for a half-day river trip, or $100 flat rate for a half-day river trip. The raft can hold up to 10 people. 5. How much will the trip cost the Kaplan family at the per person rate?
3. ZOOS Sasha researched the size of zoos in her state. She found that the zoo in the north part of the state is almost twice as large as the zoo in the south. She also found that the zoo in the south part of the state has 200 fewer than twice the number of animals as the northern zoo. How many animals per acre does each zoo have?
Zoo
North South
Acres
64 35
Number of Animals
? 3800
6. How many people must be on the river trip to make the flat rate less expensive than the per person rate?
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PHILANTHROPY For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Three businesses donated money to charity. The chart shows the pledges and payments made by the businesses.
Business
Business A Business B Business C
1. SHOPPING Toni and Tricia spend the day at the mall. At the end of the day, the two added up their purchases and found that they spent a total of $107.50. Toni spent $10.00 more than Tricia. Write an equation that can be used to find how much each girl spent.
Amount Pledged (in millions)

x
2. AGES All of the girls in Danielles cabin at camp are the same age. Their counselor is 6 years younger than 3 times their age. Danielles age and her counselors ages add up to 30. Write an equation that can be used to find the ages of Danielle and her counselor.
5. Business B pledged $20 million less than twice the amount pledged by Business A. Business C pledged $200 million less than twice the amount pledged by Business B. If x represents the amount pledged by the Business A, write expressions to show the amounts pledged by Business B and Business C in terms of x.
3. FOOTBALL The New Orleans Saints scored 7 fewer points than twice the points scored by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The two teams together scored a total of 32 points. Write and solve an equation to show how many points each team scored.
4. MINIATURE GOLF Juan, Jos, and Belinda played a round of miniature golf. Juan scored 5 points more than Jos, and Jos scored 3 points less than Belinda. The sum of their scores was 203. How many points did each one score?
6. The combined pledges of Business A, Business B, and Business C totaled $1035 million. Write an equation that can be used to determine how much each business pledged.
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4. TRIANGULAR NUMBERS By arranging bowling pins in their proper order, a triangle is created. The table below shows the number of rows of bowling pins and the total number of pins in the triangle. n (n 1) The formula t can be 2 used to find t, the total number of items in n rows. How many bowling pins would there be if 10 rows of pins were set up?
Rows Pins
1 1 2 3 3 6 4 10
1. GAS CONSUMPTION Mr. Haskell kept track of how much gasoline his car was using. He displayed the data collected in a table.
Gallons Used Miles Driven
1 23 2 46 3 69 n ?
Write an equation that Mr. Haskell can use to find how many miles he can drive with 15 gallons of gas in his car.
2. HOBBIES Shannon collects charms for her charm bracelet. Her charm bracelet had 4 charms on it when she bought it. Each year on her vacation she buys 2 more charms to add to her bracelet. Assume that Shannon continues to buy the same number of charms each year. Write an equation that can be used to find how many charms Shannon will have on her bracelet after 6 years?
PASCALS TRIANGLE For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Blaise Pascal is known for a special triangular arrangement of numbers, called Pascals Triangle.. Each number in successive rows of the triangle is created by adding the two numbers in the row above the number.
1 11 121 1331 14641 1 5 10 10 5 1
3. PYRAMIDS When climbing an ancient Mayan pyramid, the Johnson family noticed that the bottom of each side of the pyramid started with 50 large stones. The next step up had 45 large stones, the next step up had 40 stones, and so on. Write an equation to represent the number of stones on each level. How many levels can the pyramid have?
Step Stones
1 45 2 40 3 35 ?
5. Starting with the second row from the top, what is the sequence of the diagonal (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)?
6. The sum of each row represents 2n, starting with the first row, which is 20 1. Write an exponential expression for the sum of the values in the sixth row. Simplify the expression.
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4. FARMING A farmer has plans to leave part of his cornfield as grass for erosion control. The grass section will be a 12-foot square. The dimensions of the cornfield are 60 feet long by 40 feet wide. What is the actual square footage planted in corn?
grassland
1. DISTANCE Cara will move from her hometown of Seattle,Washington, to Portland, Oregon, which is 175 miles away. Cara wants to make the drive in 3 hours or less. Use the distance formula, d rt where d is the total distance, r is the speed of travel, and t is the length of time, to determine the minimum average speed Cara must drive to arrive in Portland in 3 hours.
2. INTEREST For Adams tenth birthday, his grandparents opened a savings account in his name. They made an initial deposit of $750. During the year, Adam made no additional deposits and no withdrawals. At the end of the first year, Adams money had earned $26.25. Use the formula I Prt, where I is the amount of interest earned, P is the principal, or the original amount deposited, r is the interest rate, and t is the time for which the money is invested to determine what the interest rate is on his savings account.
CONSTRUCTION For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. The City of Detroit wants to put a fence around part of the city park to make a playground. The city has 120 feet of fencing for the playground. 5. What dimensions of the playground will give the maximum area?
3. TEMPERATURE Lisa looks at her outdoor thermometer and finds it is 12C. Her brother asks her what 12C is in degrees Fahrenheit. Use the formula
9 C 32, where F is degrees F 5
6. What is the area of the playground with the dimension found in Exercise 5?
Fahrenheit and C is degrees Celsius to find the equivalent temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Round to the nearest whole number.
7. The City of Detroit will add 1 foot of new top soil to the entire fence area. Use the formula V w h to find how cubic feet of top soil will need to be purchased.
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GEOMETRY For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. The sides of right triangles have a special relationship. The longest side of a right triangle, always located opposite the right angle, is related to the shorter side lengths , where c is the by the formula c a2 b2 length of the longest side and a and b are the lengths of the sides that intersect to form the right angle. 5. The following diagram shows a ladder leaning against a wall. The bottom of the ladder is 5 feet from the base of the wall, and the ladder reaches 12 feet up the wall. Find the length of the ladder.
1. GEOMETRY Mr. Daniels is building a clubhouse for his children. He has decided that the floor will be a square with an area of 64 square feet. Write this number using a power greater than 1 and a lesser base. 2. STOCK MARKET The Nikkei 225 is a stock market index that records the progress of 225 Japanese companies. Write this number using a power greater than 1 and a lesser base. 3. NUMBER SENSE A googol is a very large number expressed as 10100. Ms. Rogers asked her students to determine which number is larger, a googol or 10010. Explain how her students might use the idea of repeated factors in order to find the solution.
12 ft
5 ft
4. LIFE SCIENCE A scientist is studying bacterial growth in the laboratory. She starts her experiment with 1 bacterium and then counts the bacteria at regular intervals and records them in the table below. If the pattern continues, how long will it take to have over 1000 bacteria?
6. Paula exercises regularly by power walking around a rectangular field. She usually begins at one corner of the field and walks the full perimeter. One day, she takes a shortcut home by walking across the diagonal of the field. How far does she walk across the field?
Time (hours) Number of cells
0 1
3 2
6 4
9 8
30 yd
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5. BIRTHDAY Darnell was born in October. Rather than tell his friends on what day he was born, he tells them that his birthday has three distinct prime factors. On what day was Darnell born? NUMBER THEORY For Exercises 68, refer to the following information. In order to determine if a number is prime or composite, it is helpful to test whether prime numbers are factors of the number, starting with the lowest prime number. David wants to determine whether or not the number 73 is a prime number. He has already determined that the prime numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are not factors of 73. 6. How does David know that 4 and 6 can not be factors of 73?
1. ADDRESSES On the block where Liza lives, the house numbers of all the two-story homes are prime numbers. Lizas block contains house numbers between 40 and 60. List all of the house numbers of the houses that you know have two stories. 2. PACKAGING Renatas tool cabinet is a rectangular box with a volume of 105 cubic feet. Find the dimensions (length, width, and height) of the cabinet if each dimension is a whole number greater than 1. 3. CLASS PROJECT Amad and Lynette were researching prime numbers for a class project. Each discovered an expression relating to prime numbers. Amad found that all prime numbers greater than 2 can be expressed as 4a 1 where a is a natural number. Lynette found that all primes greater than 3 can be expressed as 6b 1 where b is a natural number. Find the values of a and b for the prime number 113. 4. LANDSCAPING A tiled area next to Gerards house has an area of 6rs.
Width Length
7. Does David need to test any other numbers to see if 73 is a prime number? (Hint: 7 ? 73.)
Write two possible pairs of expressions that could represent the length and the width of the tiled area.
8. Use this method to determine if 437 is a prime number. List all the potential factors you tested.
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PARTY PLANNING For Exercises 57, refer to the following information. Joey is having a party during the Major League Soccer championship game. In order to make sure his guests are happy, he ordered the following appetizers from a nearby restaurant.
15 egg rolls 3 10-slice pizzas 120 chicken wings 30 cheese sticks
1. SCIENCE There are 36 freshmen and 56 sophomores on the Garfield High School science team. Mr. Lee, the science team coach, wants to divide the team into groups while ensuring there are the same number of freshmen and sophomores on each team. What is the greatest number of groups that Mr. Lee can divide the students into?
2. GARDENING Bens vegetable garden is 24 feet wide and 40 feet long. He wants to divide the garden into equally sized squares. If the squares are the largest size possible, how many squares can Ben make without wasting any of his garden space?
5. What is the greatest number of guests that Joey can have at the party so that each person (including Joey) gets the same amount of each appetizer with nothing left over?
3. FLOWERS Petal and Leaf florists currently have 30 roses, 36 carnations, and 54 tulips. How many equal-sized bouquets can be made using all of the flowers if the florists make sure that each bouquet has the same number of each type of flower?
6. What will each guest have to eat?
4. WALLPAPER A decorative wallpaper strip has an area of 50 20r. If the width of the strip is 5 inches, what expression represents the length of the strip?
7. At the last minute, Joey finds out that there will be a total of 25 guests at his party. What is the least amount of each appetizer Joey must order so that everyone gets the same amount of each appetizer with nothing left over?
5 in.
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POPULATION For Exercises 57, refer to the following information. Write your answers as fractions in simplest form. The following graph is called an age structure graph because it shows the portion of the population in each age category. This age structure graph represents the estimated population of the United States in 2007. The estimated total population for the United States in 2007 is 300 million.
United States: 2007
1. STUDENTS There are 600 students enrolled at Central High School and 120 of them are freshmen. What fraction of the student body are freshmen? Write your answer in simplest form.
2. SLEEP Most people need an average of 8 hours of sleep per 24-hour day. What fraction of a day should be spent sleeping? Write your answer in simplest form.
3. FASHION Every day Stan picks out a T-shirt to wear. He owns 5 red, 6 black, 3 green, 4 white, and 2 yellow T-shirts. What fraction of Stans T-shirts are not red? Write your answer in simplest form.
Male
4. HOMEWORK Marcie and Julia simplified an algebraic fraction. Each girl found a different answer: Marcies work: 3 Julias work: 3 = Identify the error and explain why the other solution is correct.
2gr2 14gr 2 14r 1 7r 2gr2 14gr 2 14gr 1 7gr
85 8084 7579 7074 6569 6064 5559 5054 4549 4044 3539 3034 2529 2024 1519 1014 59 04
Female
16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Population (in millions)
5. In 2007, approximately what fraction of the U.S. population will be females aged 3539?
6. In 2007, approximately what fraction of the entire U.S. population will be under 20 years of age?
7. In 2007, approximately what fraction of the entire U.S. population will be males over 85? Females over 85?
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SOUND For Exercises 57, refer to the following information. Levels of audible sound are measured in decibels (dB). An increase in 10dB is considered a doubling of perceivable sound to the human ear. The table below lists the decibel level of some common sounds.
Sound Level (dB) 10 30 70 80 110 Distance (m) 3 5 1 5 30
1. BIOLOGY Ms. Masses biology class is conducting an experiment to record the growth of a certain kind of bacteria. Each student has a lab dish containing 2 bacteria which are able to double every day. How many bacteria will be present in a students lab dish after two weeks? 2. COMPUTERS In 1995, the average home computer had a speed of about 106 cycles per second. In 2004, the average home computer had a speed of about 109 cycles per second. How many times faster were the computers in 2004 as compared to those in 1995? 3. CATERING A gourmet meal catering company is planning an event for 27 people. One week before the event, they find out that the number of people has doubled. Will there be 28 or 214 people at the event? Explain.
Source Human breathing Theater, no talking Busy traffic Vacuum cleaner Accellerating motorcycle Rock concert Jet engine Inside a tornado
120 150 250
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4. HOMEWORK Vance and Ko are trying to simplify the expression 38 37. Their answers are different: Kos work: 38 37 (3 3)(8 7) 915 Vances work: 38 37 3(8 7) 315 Which student is correct? Identify the mistake made by the other student.
5. Karen was walking on a sidewalk about 5 meters away from a road with busy traffic. She noticed that an accelerating motorcycle seemed much louder than the traffic. How many times louder was the motorcycle than the busy traffic? 6. Most people do not wear hearing protection when vacuuming their home. However, airport workers often wear ear protection because of the sound produced by jet engines. How many times louder is a jet engine at 30 meters than a vacuum cleaner at 1 meter? 7. How many times louder is the inside of a tornado than a human breathing at 3 meters?
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1. SOLAR SYSTEM The distance between Earth and the Sun is about the diameter of the solar system. Express this number using a negative exponent other than 1.
INSECTS For Exercises 69, refer to the following information. Kevins father is an entomologist. He studies insects. The table below shows the mass of four common insects.
Insect Honeybee Mass (g) 82 162 92 4.52
2. PAPER The paper used by the students at Hopkins Middle School is 1 inch thick. Express approximately 216 this number using a negative exponent other than 1.
Ant Housefly Moth

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3. TIME A microsecond is a measure of time that is equal to one millionth of a second. Express this number as a power of 10 with a negative exponent.
6. Determine which of these insects weighs the most by first expressing each of the masses in decimal form. Round your answers to the nearest thousandth.
4. MEASUREMENT There are 102 meters in 1 centimeter. At the site of an automobile accident, a state trooper uses a measuring tape to determine that the width of a tire track is 20 centimeters. Express this number as a fraction of a meter in simplest form.
7. How many times heavier is the heaviest insect than the lightest insect? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
8. What percent greater than a houseflys mass is the mass of a honeybee? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
5. HOMEWORK As Libby was working on her math homework, she computed 23 by writing the following equation. 23 8 What was Libbys error? Explain. Then give the correct answer.
9. It is estimated that an ant can lift approximately 20 times its own body mass. How many grams can the average ant lift? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
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POPULATION For Exercises 69, refer to the following information. Geographers keep track of how many people live in different areas of the world. They are especially interested in how the populations of certain areas change. The table below shows the population of different regions in 1985 and in 2005.
Population 1985 2005 4.9 109 1.1 109 7.6 108 2.4 108 6.4 109 1.3 109 1.1 109 3.0 108
1. EARTH SCIENCE Mr. Bells class is studying the solar system. The circumference of Earth at the equator is about 24,900 miles. Express this number in scientific notation. 2. LIGHT SPEED The speed of light is approximately 6.71 108 miles per hour. Express this number in standard form. 3. EARTH SCIENCE If it takes light 8.3 minutes to reach the Sun from Earth, use the light speed from Exercise 2 to determine the distance from Earth to the Sun. Write your answer in scientific notation. 4. EARTH SCIENCE The students in Mr. Bells class have learned that the mass of Earth is approximately 5.97 1024 kilograms. They have also found that mass of an electron is approximately 9.11 1031 kilograms. How many times greater than the mass of an electron is the mass of Earth? 5. AIRCRAFT The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the worlds fastest airplanes. It is capable of traveling at a cruising speed of Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is approximately 7.6 102 miles per hour. What is Mach 3 in miles per hour? Write your answer in scientific notation.
Place Earth China India United States
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2004
6. In 2005, how many times greater than Chinas population is the population of the world? 7. How many more people inhabited Earth in 2005 than in 1985? 8. What was the percentage increase in population in India from 1985 to 2005? Round your answer to the nearest percent. 9. Was Indias percent increase in population greater than or less than the percent increase of the whole world for the same time period? Explain.
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1. TAX Ted pays of his salary in taxes, while Carl pays of his salary in taxes. Who pays more of his salary in taxes?
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4. TESTS Petra earned scores of ,

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30 32
quizzes. Find each score as a decimal rounded to the nearest thousandth. Arrange the fractions in order from least to greatest.
2. ROCKS Jan and Bob are classifying rocks in geology class. They begin the classification by finding the weight of
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PAINT For Exercises 57, use the following information. Angie is mixing together yellow paint and blue paint to make 2 shades of green paint. She will mix the paint in two 5-liter canisters. In canister A, she will pour 2 liters of yellow paint; in canister B, she will pour 2.46 liters of yellow paint. She fills the rest of each can with blue paint. 5. In which canister will Angie pour more yellow paint?
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while Bobs weighs 0.016 kg. Whose rock is heavier?
3. BUILDING LOT The two one-acre lots in the diagram below are subdivided equally by the lines shown. The shaded areas in each lot have been set aside for housing.
6. To the nearest hundredth of a liter, how much more blue paint than yellow paint does Angie use in all?
Northfield
Southfield
Which of the two lots, Northfield or Southfield, has the greater area of land set aside for housing? To the nearest hundredth, what is the total acreage of land within both lots that is set aside for housing?
7. Angie can paint one room with 3 liters of one shade of green paint. She will need 1 liters of the same shade of green paint for a second room. Does Angie have enough of this shade of green paint to finish the second room? If not, how much additional paint will she need? Express your answer in decimal form.
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PATTERNS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Jade is studying fractions and decimals in her math class. While working on homework one night, she noticed a pattern when she wrote each of the following decimals as , 0.7 , 0.2 8 , and 0.7 1 . fractions: 0.5 5. Write each of Jades decimals as fractions.
1. HOMEWORK One weekend, Nate compared his history homework to his younger sister Carolines social studies homework. He found that for every 2 pages he had to read for homework, Caroline had to read one page for homework. How many pages did Nate read for every three pages Caroline read?
1 3
2. MEASUREMENT One foot is equivalent to 30.48 centimeters. Write this value as a mixed number in simplest form. 6. Jade was looking at the numerators and denominators of her answers when she noticed the pattern. What was the pattern that Jade noticed?
3. LAND Earth has a surface area of approximately 197,000,000 square miles and a total land area of approximately 58,000,000 square miles. What fraction of the Earths surface is land? Write another fraction that is close to your answer and has a denominator of 10.
4. SHOPPING Use the table of 6-ounce yogurt prices to answer the questions below.
Yogurt A Yogurt B 7 for $4.00 $0.55 each
7. Use Jades pattern to predict how to 1 6 as a fraction. Check your write 0.4 answer using a different method.
What is the unit price for Yogurt A expressed as a fraction? Which yogurt is the better deal?
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4. CONCRETE A 62-pound bag of
5 12 1 2 3 concrete mix has of its weight made 5
1. SURVEYS In a school survey, Randy found that of the students normally wear sneakers, and that of those who wear sneakers normally wear white sneakers. What fraction of the student body normally wears white sneakers?
8 25
up of sand and small stones. The stones make up of the weight. What is the weight of the stones in the bag of concrete?
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DISPLAYS For Exercises 57, use the following information. 2. MAPS The Darling Downs Rabbit Board fence was built to prevent the spread of rabbits into southern Queensland, Australia. On a map drawn
1 to a scale of , the fence 2,500,000 3 measures 8 inches. How long is the 4
A wall in a museum measures 3 meters high by 6 meters wide. One quarter of the wall is dedicated to displays. 5. What is the area of the wall that is dedicated to displays?
actual fence?
6. Three paintings, each measuring 1 3. FARMING A farmer has a 420-acre farm. He planted of it with corn, but later found that of the crop was diseased. How many acres of healthy corn did the farmer have? 7. What fraction of the wall is still available for displays?
3 14 7 12
3 4
meters high by meter wide, are hung in the display space. What is the total area of the three paintings?
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4. MOTIONS In order to vote on any decision, a club requires the presence of
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1. COINS In the 16th century, Spain had a silver coin called a peso. The coin was divided into 8 reals. Reals were stamped with an 8, and became known as pieces of eight. How many pesos would have been equivalent to 26 pieces of eight?
club has a membership of 224. What is the minimum number of votes needed for a motion to be approved?
2. COINS An anna is an Indian coin equivalent to one sixteenth of a rupee. How many rupees equal 45 annas?
TILES For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. A design for a walkway calls for a pattern made by alternating red tiles with green tiles. Both the red and green tiles are squares, with the red tiles having a side length of foot and the green tiles having
3 4 2 3
3. MEASUREMENT Two paintings, each 2 feet wide, are hung on a gallery wall that is 10 feet long. They are hung the same distance apart as the distance from the end of each wall.
1 2
a side length of foot.

5. If the walkway is 34 feet long, how many times will the pattern repeat?
2 2 ft 10 ft
6. Each stack of tiles is 17 inches tall. If each tile is 1 inches thick, how many tiles are in a stack?
1 4
1 2
What is the distance between the paintings? Express your answer as inches and then as feet.
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1. ICE CREAM A 3-ounce scoop of strawberry ice cream was stacked on top of 2-ounce scoop of chocolate ice cream. What is the total weight of ice cream on the cone?
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4. MEASUREMENT When Danny, who is 57 inches tall, stands on a ledge 9 inches off the ground, he remains hidden behind a wall 70 inches tall. What is the distance between the top of Dannys head and the top of the wall?
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2. SUNSHINE The following table shows the amount of civil twilight (length of time you can see without artifical illumination) for Seattle, Washington, for several dates throughout the year.
Date March 20 June 21 September 22 December 21
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BAKING For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Jean and Fred are making apple crisp. The recipe calls for 8 apples to be peeled and cut into pieces. However, as Fred and Jean work, they eat pieces of apple. Fred eats of each apple he peels, and Jean eats of each apple she peels.
Civil Twilight (h)

13 20 11 17 20 13 13 20 19 9 20
13
2 9
1 9
For how much more time can a person in Seattle see without artificial illumination on June 21st than on December 21st?
5. Assuming they each peel and cut four apples, how many apples will they have left over for the recipe after they peel eight apples?
3. FENCES A picket fence has slats that

5 12 7 are foot wide. How long is a fence 12
are foot wide separated by gaps that
6. If Jean peels and cuts two more apples, will they have enough for the recipe? If so, how much extra is there? If not, how much more do they need?
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SCHOOL DANCE For Exercises 58, use the following information. Prize tickets are being given out at the door of the school dance. Every 12th, 18th, and 30th student to walk through the door will be awarded prizes as shown in the table.
Prize Frequency Prize free beverage free snack free ticket to the next dance
1. BEACONS A beacon flashes every 12 seconds, and another beacon flashes every 16 seconds. How often do the two beacons flash in unison?
2. PETS A pet owner buys a supply of dog food every 6 days, and a supply of cat food every 14 days. How often does the pet owner buy both dog and cat food at the same time?
12th student 18th student 30th student
5. Which student will receive both a free beverage and a free snack? 3. STAIRS Three friends are walking up the front stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Each person is going at a different pace. They all stop at the same time because they heard a loud noise. Ambrosia has walked up of the
3 5 2 stairs, Bernard has walked up of the 3 5 stairs, and Carol has walked up of the 8
6. Suppose 285 students attend the dance. If every 10th student at the dance makes a special song request, how many students make a special song request and receive a free snack?
stairs. Place the friends in order from the friend who has walked up the least number of steps to the friend who has walked up the greatest number of steps.
7. If 360 students attend the dance, how many have been awarded all three prizes?
3 4. A tailor cuts foot of cloth from a roll 4
that has a pattern repeat every 5 feet. How often does the cut coincide with the beginning of the pattern?
8. If students are numbered consecutively starting with 1, 2, 3, as they enter the dance, which students, by number, are awarded all three prizes?
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1. MILK A jug contains 3 pints of milk. Ashleys family poured out 1 pints of milk during breakfast. How much milk remains in the jug?
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4. RUNNING Ron wants to run 6 miles this week. He ran 1 miles on Monday, 1 miles on Tuesday, and 1 miles on Wednesday. How many more miles does he need to run to reach his goal for the week?
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2. WOODWORKING Jane is building a basic stand using wooden blocks. A wooden block that is inch thick is
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MONEY MANAGEMENT For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Sandy worked extremely hard at her job and earned a large bonus at the end of the year. She wanted to share her bonus with her family. She decided to give her children of her bonus and her grandchildren of her
thick. What is the combined thickness of the two blocks of wood?
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bonus. 3. TILING A designer places four identical tiles on a surface and spaces them 3 inch apart. Each tile is 7 inches wide.
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5. How much of her bonus is Sandy keeping for herself?
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What is the length from the outside edge of the first tile to the outside edge of the last tile?
6. Sandy has a childhood friend who is like a sister to her. If she gives her friend of her bonus, how much will she be keeping for herself?
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INTERIOR DESIGN For Exercises 58, use the following information. Kevin decided to decorate his bedroom, which is 9 feet long and 7 feet wide. The ceiling is 8 feet high. He found a new area rug to put on the floor. The rug would leave
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1. SHOPPING Justine bought a new scarf on sale for $8.50. She got it for $2.75 less than the original price. What was the original price of the scarf?
2. ART Simone took some paintings to an art show to sell. She sold 18 paintings during the show. That number represents of the paintings that she brought to the show. How many paintings did she take to the show?
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1 feet of bare floor on all four sides of it. 5. What is the width of the rug?
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6. What is the length of the rug?
3. CONSUMERISM Corey had of a tank of gas in his car. He just bought $14
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7. Kevin noticed that the floor in his bedroom needed to be replaced. Kevin decided to cover the entire floor with new wood flooring. What is the area of the entire floor? What amount of that area is covered by the rug?
4. GEOMETRY The width of a rectangle is 3.4 meters longer than the height of the rectangle. The width is 5.5 meters. What is the height of the rectangle?
8. Kevin found a border that he wants to put around the top of the walls. How many feet of border does Kevin need to buy?
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4. ACADEMICS The class average for the first social studies test in Mollys class was 85%. 23 students took the test. When the 24th student joined the class and took the same test, the class average went up to 85.5%. What grade did the new student earn on the exam?
1. MARATHON Martin is training for a marathon. The table below shows the total number of miles he has run each week for the first 6 weeks of his training. What is the mode distance that Martin has run?
Date Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Miles Run 47 35 53 52 47 56
ADVERTISING For Exercises 57, use the following information. Shawn kept track of the lengths of the television commercials during a 1-hour program. He found that 5 commercials were 30 seconds long, 10 commercials were 15 seconds long, 2 commercials were 60 seconds long, and 1 commercial was 90 seconds long. 5. What is the mean number of seconds that a commercial lasted?
State Alaska California Florida Illinois New York Texas
Wage $7.15 $6.75 $6.15 $6.50 $6.75 $5.15
6. What is the median time length for a commercial?
Source: www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm
7. Which measure is a more accurate representation of the lengths of the commercials Shawn recorded?
3. HEIGHTS David measured the heights of 10 classmates. He found the mean of their heights to be 54.8 inches. He then added in his own height and found the mean again. With Davids height, the mean was 55 inches. What is Davids height?
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2. WAGES Each state in the U.S. has its own minimum wage. The table below shows the minimum wage for 6 states. What is the median minimum wage for these 6 states?
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4. RACING Greg Biffle won the Samsung/Radio Shack 500 NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway in April 2005. His average speed was 130 miles per hour. How many feet per second is this?
1. ACADEMICS There are 15 girls and 12 boys in Mrs. Johnsons math class. Express the ratio of boys to girls in simplest form.
2. SPORTS The table lists the medal count for the five countries with the most medals in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Write a ratio of the number of gold medals won for the USA to the total number of medals won for the USA.
Country Gold USA 35 Russia 27 China 32 Australia 17 Germany 14 Silver Bronze 39 29 27 38 17 14 16 16 16 18 Total 103 92 63 49 48
RECYCLING For Exercises 56, use the following information. In 1974, 23 crushed beverage cans weighed one pound. In 2005, beverage cans were lighter and 33 crushed beverage cans weighed one pound. Every minute of every day, an average of 123,097 beverage cans are recycled. 5. About how many pounds of beverage cans are recycled in an hour?
3. SHOPPING Darla decides to buy a sports drink. Her choices are a 20-ounce bottle for $1.49 or a 32-ounce bottle for $2.49. Which is the better value? Explain.
6. About how many tons of beverage cans are recycled in an average day?
Source: www.dnr.state.oh.us/recycling/awareness/facts/ factsheets/aluminum.htm
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4. CRUISE SHIPS After receiving new engines in 1987, the Queen Elizabeth 2 moves 49.5 feet for every gallon of fuel that it burns. Previously, it moved 36 feet per gallon. Write an equation and describe the proportionality.
1. WEATHER The National Weather Service has a Wind Chill Temperature (WCT) index. The table shows how cold people and animals feel when the temperature outside is 20F. Determine whether the set of numbers in the pattern forms a proportion.
Wind Chill (F) Wind (mph) 13 5 9 10 6 15 4 20
RECYCLING For Exercises 57, use the following information. Micah did some research on paper consumption and recycling efforts. She found that for every ton of paper that is recycled, 17 trees are saved. 2. PAINTING The table shows the coverage for a brand of interior paint when it is applied on primed walls. Determine whether the set of numbers in the pattern forms a proportion.
5. Complete the table.

Tons of Paper Recycled Trees Saved 1
Paint (gal) Area (square ft)
1 360
2 720
3 1080
4 1440
6. Make a graph of the situation.
3. EXERCISE Walking at 4 miles per hour, Sue burns about 283 Calories per hour. Write an equation and describe the proportionality.
7. Does the pattern form a proportion?
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4. TECHNOLOGY Elton just bought a new flash drive for his computer. He read in the literature that 7 flash drives can hold 1792 megabytes of data. Write and solve a proportion to find the number of megabytes of data that 5 flash drives can hold.
1. RUNNING Donna is planning to run a 13.1-mile half marathon. She tells of her plans to her European friend, who asks how many meters she will run. There are approximately 1609 meters in 1 mile. Write a proportion that could be used to find the distance of the marathon in meters.
COOKING For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. 2. FLOWERS The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden and Center in Tyler, Texas, is the nations largest rose garden. It contains 38,000 rose bushes representing 500 varieties of roses set in a 14-acre park. Write a proportion that could be used to find the average number of rose bushes per acre. Ashley is planning breakfast for a family event. She wants to serve Deltan Waffles. She found this recipe, which serves 8 people. Deltan Waffles 1 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt 2 3 4
1 cups milk
1 cup shortening, 2
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2 egg whites
5. How much salt does she need if she uses 3 eggs? 3. RECYCLING Ohio is the home of two of the worlds largest aluminum smelters, in which metal is separated for recycling. Together, these two facilities process an average of 15 million pounds of aluminum each month. How many pounds of aluminum do the Ohio smelting plants average per week?
6. How much baking powder does she need if she wants to serve 12 people?
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4. MODEL RAILROADING Mr. Millers model railroad layout is in HO scale. The scale factor of HO is 1:87. How high is the smokestack of the actual engine if the model is 2 inches high? Express your answer in feet.
1. INTERIOR DESIGN Jane is planning the furniture layout of her living room. On the scale drawing of the living room below, 1 inch represents 2 feet. What measurement does 8 inches represent?
Fireplace Bay Window 8 in. Door
11 in.
2. TOYS The diameter of the sweep of the main rotor of the EH101 helicopter is 18.6 meters. A toy model of it has a sweep of 31 centimeters. What is the scale of the model?
BLUEPRINTS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. John and Julie are planning to have a new house built. The architect designed a house and sent them the blueprints. The scale that the architect used on the 1 blueprints is 2 inches equals 10 feet.
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5. The living room will have the actual dimensions of 12 feet by 16 feet. What are its dimensions on the blueprints?
18.6 m
6. Julie notices that the bedroom closet on the blueprint is 0.25 inch by 1 inch. She told the architect that she wanted a walk-in closet that is 6 feet long. Did the architect follow her instruction?
3. ARCHITECTURE The Freedom Tower will sit at the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site in New York City. The height of the tower is set to be 1776 feet. Suppose that 1 inch represents 74 feet on a scale model of the tower. What is the height of the model?
7. What is the scale factor?
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4. CARS In an online poll, car owners were asked what type car they would buy if they were to buy a new car today. Two-fifths of the respondents said they would buy a gasoline-powered car, 0.13 selected a diesel engine car, and 43% chose a hybrid car. Which type of car did the largest group choose? SPORTS For Exercises 57, use the information in the graph below. A survey conducted by a national marketing group compared teens sports preferences in recent years.
Favorite Sports
Basketball Football Soccer Baseball Volleyball Softball Track/cross-country Tennis Golf Swimming 0.0%
8.6% 19.8% 21.9%
1. ADVERTISING In 1998, outdoor advertisements amounted to 2.2% of all advertising dollars spent in the U.S. What fraction is this?
2. GEOGRAPHY The area of continental United States is about 1.9 billion acres. Texas makes up seven percent of this area. What fraction is this?
15.8% 10.3% 11.5% 6.8% 8.8% 7.1% 6.6% 5.4% 5.0% 6.5% 4.4% 4.1% 2.6% 2.5% 3.0% 6.5%
2001 2000
3. ELECTRONICS An online poll posted the following question. How many personal electronic devices do you carry around at any one time? One-twentieth of the respondents said zero, 21% said one, 6 0.27 said two, said three and 23% 25 claimed to carry four or more. How many personal electronic devises do most people carry?
10.0%
20.0%
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5. Which sport(s) did about 0.1 of those surveyed say was their favorite in 2001?
6. Which sport(s) was the favorite of about 1 of those surveyed in 2000?

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HEALTH For Exercises 57, use the following information. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires food packagers to provide nutritional information about the food in the packaging. The label shown at the right is from a small package of chicken tenderloins, brown rice, and mixed vegetables.
1. CHORES A local Mothers group conducted a survey of 1074 youths age 19 and under about chores. 66% of those surveyed said they do not clean their rooms because they do not like to. How many of the 1074 youths gave that response? 2. RECYCLING The table shows the recent number of curbside recycling programs in four geographical regions of the United States. What percent of the countrys recycling programs are in the Midwest?
Curbside Recycling Programs Region Number Northeast 3421 South 1677 Midwest 3572 West 1034 Total 9704
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 Package (265 g) Servings Per Container 1 Amount Per Serving Calories 240 Calories from Fat 50
% Daily Value* 8% Total Fat 6 g 18% Saturated Fat 3.5 g Trans Fat 0 g Polyunsaturated Fat .5 g Monounsaturated Fat .5 g Cholesterol 30 mg 9% Sodium 660 mg 28% Potassium 500 mg 14% Total Carbohydrats 29 g 9% Dietary Fiber 4 g 17% Sugars 4 g Protein 18 g
3. MARATHON The 2004 Boston Mayors Cup races boasted the largest number of finishers in the history of the event with 825 finishers. 290 of the finishers were from the youth division. What percent of the finishers were not from the youth division? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
5. According to the label, the package contains 6 grams of fat, which is 8% of the daily value recommended for a 2000-Calorie diet. How many grams of fat are recommended for a 2000-Calorie diet?
6. What percent of the total Calories in this package come from fat?
4. EDUCATION Trevor received a score of 96% on his social studies test. If he answered 24 of the questions correctly, how many questions were on the test?
7. The potassium in the package is 14% of the recommended daily value. What is the recommended daily value of potassium?
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4. SHOPPING Sydney has $20 and wants to buy a CD of her favorite group. She finds a two-disc set of greatest hits that costs $18.99. The sales tax in her state is 5%. Does she have enough money to buy the CD? Explain.
1. GEOGRAPHY The state of Pennsylvania covers almost 29 million acres. Of the total acreage, about 53% is forest land. About how many acres of forest land are in the state of Pennsylvania?
2. ENVIRONMENT In 2004, there were 320 endangered mammals in the world. About 75% of these mammals reside outside of the United States. About how many endangered mammals are not in the United States?
GEOGRAPHY For Exercises 57, use the information in the table. The table shows the total area of eight states in square miles and the area of the state that is covered by water.
State Michigan Hawaii Rhode Island Massachusetts Delaware Maryland Florida Wisconsin Area of state (square miles) 96,716 10,931 1545 10,555 2489 12,407 65,755 65,498 Water Area (square miles) 39,912 4508 500 2715 536 2633 11,828 11,188
3. GAMES The figures below represent two game boards. The object of the game is to toss a bean bag so that it lands on a shaded region. Which game board gives a player the best chance of throwing a bean bag so that it lands on a shaded region? Explain.
5. Which state has a water area that is about 25% of the area of the state? 6. Which state has about one-third of its area covered by water? 7. Which two states have about the same percent of area covered by water?
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BANKING For Exercises 57, use the information in the table below. Marine Bank just changes the interest rates it pays on certificates of deposits for five different terms. The rates are simple interest rates. For each question, assume no additional deposits or withdrawals.
Marine Bank
1. ONLINE SHOPPING Bob is looking to buy a new baseball cap with his favorite teams logo on it. He finds one that normally sells for $17.99 on sale for 20% off. Find the discount to the nearest cent.
2. BASEBALL CARDS Harold is interested in selling his fathers baseball card collection. A local sports card dealer will sell the collection for Harold, but will collect a fee equal to 18% of the selling price. If the card dealer sells the baseball card collection for $325, what is the amount of the fee?
Term 6 months 1 year 2 years 3 years 5 years
Rate 3.15% 4.20% 4.40% 4.55% 4.70%
5. Tom invested $1500 in one of the plans. How long did he invest it if he earned $66 in interest at the end of the term?
3. TAXES Martina bought a pair of shoes for $39.90. The total cost for the shoes was $41.50. What is the sales tax rate in Martinas state?
6. Maria invested money for 6 months. How much money did she invest if she earned $25.20 in interest?
4. SHOPPING Bria has a coupon for an additional 25% off the purchase of any sale item at a garden store. She finds a birdbath that is on sale at 10% off the original price of $79. What is the price of the birdbath after both discounts are applied? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
7. Ricardo invested in a certificate of deposit at a different bank. He deposited $2500, and after 18 months, he had earned $161.25 in interest. What was the interest rate on his certificate of deposit?
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TRAVEL For Exercises 57, use the following information. The following table shows the number of visitors to Yellowstone National Park from 2000 to 2004. Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Number of Visitors 2,838,233 2,758,526 2,973,677 3,019,375 2,868,317
1. DVD Bill paid $20 for a new DVD three years ago. Yesterday he paid $15 for a new DVD. Find the percent of change.
2. TRAINING When Jan began training for a marathon, she could run 3 miles in the same amount of time she can now run 5 miles. What is the percent of change in Jans running speed?
Source: nps.gov
5. What was the percent of change in the number of tourists between 2000 and 2001? 3. CENSUS According to the United States Census Bureau, the state of Texas had a population of 16,986,510 in 1990. Census data shows that in 2000, the population of Texas was 20,851,820. Find the percent of change.
6. Determine between which years Yellowstone National Park experienced the highest percent of decrease of visitors and find the percent of change.
4. INVESTMENT Jack bought a coin for $200, which he later sold for $175. Find the percent of change. Did Jack make a good investment? Explain.
7. Determine between which years Yellowstone National Park experienced the highest percent of increase in visitors and find the percent of change.
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1. SHOPPING The managing group of a local shopping mall surveyed their customers to determine which stores bring in the most patrons. They surveyed every 15th person to enter all entrances to the mall. What type of sample did the group use? POLLING For Exercises 57, use the following information. A local newspaper conducts a telephone survey before the upcoming mayoral election. Of the 185,000 registered voters, 500 are randomly chosen and asked, If the election were held today, who would get your vote for mayor? The results are shown in the table below.
Mayoral Candidate Number of Polled Supporters 140 115 134 111
2. PRODUCTION A candy company inspects a sampling of its production by checking the first 10 and the last 10 candies produced each hour. Identify this sample as biased or unbiased.
Smith Wong Sanchez Blom
5. Is the sampling method valid? Explain.
3. SCHOOL LUNCH A survey of 50 randomly selected students showed that 38 students buy lunch at school and 12 students bring lunch from home each day. About how many of the schools 524 students buy lunch at school each day?
6. How many votes can Sanchez expect to receive in the election?
4. CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Johnsons Hardware randomly selects 125 of its customers and questions them to determine their overall customer satisfaction rating. The poll indicates 100 were completely satisfied, 15 were satisfied, and 10 were not satisfied at all. What percent of customers were either satisfied or completely satisfied? About how many of the 5000 customers were not satisfied at all?
7. How many voters are not expected to vote for Smith?
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4. BOOKS The table below shows the price of a book and its page content.
Price ($) 10.45 24.38 23.54 23.54 22.61 Pages 135 170 180
1. BEACONS Below are shirt sizes found in a department store, listed as (neck circumference, arm length). {(13, 33), (14, 35), (14, 36), (15, 34), (15, 35), (16, 34), (17, 35), (17, 36)} Does the relation (neck size, arm length) represent a function? Explain.
1 2 1 2 1 2
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2. GASOLINE The table below lists the average price of gasoline per gallon in the United States at the end of each month of 2004.
Month January February March April May
Does the relation (price, pages) represent a function? Explain.
Price $1.60 $1.64 $1.72 $1.77 $2.00 $1.86
Month July August September October November December
Price $1.86 $1.83 $1.90 $1.98 $1.90 $1.75
EARTHS ATMOSPHERE For Exercises 5 and 6, refer to the table that shows the typical air temperature at various altitudes.
Altitude (ft) 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 Air Temperature (F) 59.0 23.3 12.3 48.0 69.7 69.7 69.7 69.7 69.7 56.6 40.1
June
Source: fueleconomy.gov
Does the relation (month, price) represent a function? Explain. 3. TAXI FARE The information listed shows the cost of a cab ride across town:
Distance (miles) 0.5 1.3 2.7 3.1 3.4 3.6 Price ($) 5.50 6.50 8.00 8.50 8.50 9.00
60,000 70,000 80,000 90,000 100,000
5. Explain whether or not this relationship represents a function.
Does the relationship between the distance traveled and the cost represent a function? Explain.
6. Describe the relationship between altitude and air temperature.
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4. CAR RENTAL The cost of renting a car from the Frugal Car Rental Company includes a $20 non-refundable deposit and a travel cost of 4 per mile. Find an equation to represent the total cost, C, if a car is rented and driven n miles. Then, find two ordered pairs that satisfy this condition.
1. CURRENCY On October 11, 2005, the equation 1.75p d represented the relationship between the U. S. dollar, d, and the British pound sterling, p. Complete following table.
UK Pounds 1 1 3.4 140
Source: xe.com
US Dollars
CARNIVAL PRIZES For Exercises 5 and 6, refer to the following information. Melissa is buying prizes for a school carnival. At the store, she finds colorful note paper sold in packs containing 4 sheets and stickers sold individually. She needs 50 prizes altogether. 5. Melissa uses the equation 4p s 50 to help plan her purchase. Find three ordered pairs (p, s) that satisfy this condition, and use them to graph the relationship.
2. MEASUREMENT The equation c 2.54i can be used to convert between inches i and centimeters c. Complete the three ordered pairs (i, c) below. Round your answers to the nearest hundredth. (19.2, ___ ), ( ___ , 84.2), (68.5, ___ ).
3. GEOMETRY Jerry bought material for a fence to put around the garden shown in the drawing.
y Garden House x
The equation 2x y 80 describes the relationship between x the width and y the length of his garden in feet. Find one ordered pair solution that makes sense in the situation and one that does not. Explain your choices.
6. Complete the following ordered pair: ( ___ , 40). Does this make sense for Melissas purchase? Explain.
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4. STAMPS Kyuri needs $0.81 in postage to mail some photographs to a friend. She has 3 and 9 stamps. The table shows some 9 stamps 3 stamps combinations of 3 and 9 stamps 2 21 that she could 3 18 use to mail the letter. Find the 4 15 rate of change between the 5 12 numbers of 3 6 9 stamps and 9 stamps.
1. AVIATION An airplane was at an altitude of 12,000 feet 40 minutes before landing, and at an altitude of 2000 feet 15 minutes before landing. What was the rate of change of the planes altitude per minute? 2. TICKET SALES A ticket sales representative at a local water park had $175.50 in his cash register at the end of his first hour at work. If each ticket to the park cost $1.75, and he sold an average of one ticket per minute, how much was in his register to start? 3. POPULATION The table shows how residential patterns in the United States have changed over the past 200 years.
Urban Population (per 1000) 108 282 512 631 790 Rural Population (per 1000) 892 718 488 369 210
BASEBALL For Exercises 5 and 6, refer to the following information. This graph shows the total number of runs that the Boston Red Sox scored during the 19962004 seasons.
Year
1840 1880 1920 1960 2000

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1000 950 Runs 900 850 800 750 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 Year Source: baseball-reference.com
Compare the rates of change for each time interval, and describe how the population has changed since 1840.
6. Find the average rate of change from 1996 to 2004.
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4. TRANSPORTATION The distance a bus travels varies directly with time. A Red Lines bus has been traveling for 4.5 hours and has traveled a distance of 281.25 miles. The total distance it must cover on a particular route is 520 miles. How long will the bus take to cover this distance? HIKING For Exercises 5 and 6, refer to the following information. Jennifer and a group of her friends are planning a hiking trip. Jennifer is in charge of making trail mix that will provide the group a total of 4000 Calories. The graph shows the amount of peanuts and raisins she would have to buy in order to make the trail mix as planned.
60 50 Raisins (oz) 40 30 20 10 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Peanuts (oz)
1. WATER USE The graph shows the number of quarts of water the typical person needs in a certain number of days. Find the constant rate of change for the relationship and interpret its meaning.
Water needed (qt)
30 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 Days 10 15
Source: www.nps.gov/rivers/waterfacts.html
2. BAKING The amount of flour needed for a recipe varies directly with the number of servings planned. Three servings require 4 cups of flour. Write a direct variation equation relating the number of servings s and the required number of cups of flour f.
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3. SCUBA DIVING Fresh Days Cost ($) Air Scuba Company 3 30 leases scuba diving equipment. The 6 50 following table shows the cost of renting 9 70 equipment for different 12 90 lengths of time. Determine if there is a proportional relationship between the cost of the rental and the number of days the equipment is rented. Explain.
5. Find the constant rate of change for this linear function and interpret its meaning.
6. Determine if a proportional relationship exists between ounces of peanuts and ounces of raisins. Explain.
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4. SUBWAY A straight section of subway track passes under the intersection of 3rd and 8th Streets, and also under the intersection of 5th Street and 12th Streets. Identify the next intersection under which the line passes.
1. CIVIL ENGINEERING Lewis County, Washington, has a guideline that new roads should not exceed a 15% grade, or a 15 foot rise over a horizontal distance of 100 feet. A proposed roadway rises 41 feet over 254 feet horizontally. Find the grade of the proposed roadway. Does it meet the countys guideline?
2. CLIMBING A party of trekkers left a staging hut, at an elevation of 465 feet, and arrived at their destination at an elevation of 2347 feet. According to the map, the camps were 3000 feet apart. What was average slope between the two camps?
DRAINAGE For Exercises 57, refer to the following information. To function properly, a water outflow pipe must drop 1 inch for every 22 inches of horizontal distance.
5. Calculate the slope for this drain pipe.
3. LABOR The following graph shows the unemployment rate for the United States from 1987 to 2004.
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1985 1990 1995 Year 2000 2005 Unemployment (%)
6. A rainwater pipe 30 feet long must run under the edge of a roof. What is the minimum vertical distance the pipe must drop between its ends?
Source: www.bls.gov
In what section of the graph did unemployment rise the most? Describe the slope.
7. A design calls for a drainage pipe to cross a building 45 feet wide as it drops 25 inches. Is this pipe steep enough to function properly? Explain.
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BANK ACCOUNT For Exercises 46, refer to the following information. Petes bank account showed a balance at the beginning of the month of $180. He spent $2.50 each day on bus tokens. The amount A left in his bank account after d days can be given by A 180 2.5d.
1. OVERTIME Rod is paid an overtime rate of $25 per hour after he earns his basic wage of $600 per week. Write an equation in slope-intercept form for the total pay p if he works h hours of overtime.
4. Graph the equation using the slope and y-intercept. 2. PHONE PLAN The monthly cost C of Marges phone plan is given by C 40 m, where m is the number of extra minutes she uses in that month. Name the slope and y-intercept in this situation, and explain what each represents.
5. State the slope and y-intercept of the graph, and describe what each represents.
3. ELEVATOR An elevator travels vertically in a building that has 32 floors, each 11 feet tall. The height h above the first floor after t seconds is given by h 297 4.4t. How long will it take for the elevator to reach the second floor?
6. Find the x-intercept and describe what it represents.
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4. WATER A steady stream of water flows into a partially-filled rectangular tank. After 6 minutes, there are 87 gallons of water in the tank. After 21 minutes, there are 222 gallons. Write an equation to represent the volume of water in the tank y after x minutes. How much water was in the tank to begin?
1. FALCON FLIGHT The progress of a Peregrine Falcon in a head-first dive is shown in the following table.
Time (s) 0 1 2 3
Source: dep.state.pa.us
Distance (ft) 0 295 590 885
ARCADE For Exercises 57, refer to the following information. Justin goes to a local arcade one weekend. He starts out with a certain number of tokens and spends them on games at a consistent rate. Three times, Justin counted how many tokens he had left.
Time (min) 15 Tokens left 50 20 0
Write an equation to represent the distance d traveled by a falcon in t seconds. How many seconds would it take the falcon to travel a mile at this rate?
2. SAVINGS Susana has $32 in a jar to which she adds her weekly allowance of $8. Write a linear equation in slope-intercept form to show how much she saves y after x weeks. How much will she have saved after 5 weeks?
30 40
5. What is the slope of the relationship between time and tokens left?
6. What is the y-intercept? 3. ARCHITECTURE The following diagram shows the design for a symmetrical roof.
y 8 ft 12 ft x
7. Write an equation in slope-intercept form to show the number of tokens left y after x minutes at the arcade.
Write two equations to represent the two sides of the roof.
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3. NUTRITION The table shows the fat and Calorie content for several snack foods. Make a scatter plot of Fat (g) Cal the data and find a line that best fits the data. 1 200
500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 0 5 10 15 Fat (g) 20 25
1. CYCLING Philippe and Clarice are on a three day bicycle tour. The following graph shows the distance from their home on the last day.
Distance from home (mi) 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Time (hr)
6 6.5 8 12 18 20
222 239 274 338 339 385
Find the equation for the line of fit and use it to estimate their distance from home after 5 hours.
POSTAGE For Exercises 4 and 5, refer to the following information. The table shows United States Postal Service rate increases for mailing a first-class envelope.
Year 1985 1988 1991 1995 1999 2001 2002
Source: usps.gov
Calories
Rate () 22 25 29 32 33 34 37
Length of Spring (in.)
30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Number of Weights
First-Class Postage ()
2. MECHANICS Jeanne and Martin were investigating how a metal spring stretches when they add a weight to the end of it. They collected data and created the following graph:
4. Make a scatter plot of the data.

38 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 0 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Year
Use the labeled points to write an equation for the line of fit.
5. Write an equation for a line of fit and use it to predict the postage rate in 2010.
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4. TRAVEL Cindy is saving for a trip to Hawaii. Each week, she puts aside the same amount of money for her airfare. After 9 weeks of saving, she needs $390 more for her airfare. After 14 weeks, she still needs $240. How much is the airfare to Hawaii? How much does Cindy put aside each week for her airfare?
1. BALLOONING One hot air balloon is 15 meters above the ground, and is rising at a rate of 20 meters per minute. A second balloon is 195 meters above the ground, and is descending at a rate of 16 meters per minute. In how many minutes will the two balloons be at the same height?
2. TRANSPORTATION A commuter train pulling 8 cars had room for another 84 passengers. Halfway through the commute, the train had to be taken out of service. All of the passengers were transferred to another commuter train that had 6 cars with the same capacity as those in the first train. After all of the passengers transferred to the replacement train, there was room for only 10 more people. What is the maximum number of passengers that each car can transport?
PLUMBING For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Josh has two leaking pipes in his basement. While waiting for the plumber to come, Josh puts a bucket under each leak. The two buckets have the same capacity. The bucket under the first leak fills in 20 minutes. The bucket under the second leak fills in 35 minutes. 5. Joshs brother takes away one of the buckets and places the one bucket under the two leaks. About how long will it take for the one bucket to fill completely?
3. CAR RENTALS The table below shows what two rental companies charge for an intermediate 4-door sedan. How many miles must a driver drive in one day to make First Choice a less expensive option?
First Choice Car Daily charge Cost per mile $65 $0.06 Best RentA-Car $48 $0.10
6. Josh wraps a cloth around the first leak, which cuts the rate of that leak in half. At the same time, it doubles the rate of the second leak. How will this affect the time it takes to fill the bucket?
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4. HIKING A group of friends went on a three-day hike. During the second day of the hike, the group hiked twice as far as they did on the first day. One the third day, they hiked twelve miles farther than the combined distance of the first two days. Write an expression to show the total distance the group of friends hiked over three days?
1. FUEL In September 2005, the average price of gasoline was $3.07 a gallon. This price represented an increase of $0.57 less than twice the price the previous year. Use the equation 307 2x 57 to determine the price of gasoline in September 2004.
3. GEOMETRY A triangle and a rectgangle have the same perimeter. What is the width of the rectangle?
x1 x2 2x 3 x3
5. Brian arranges the posters so they are side by side in two rows of three. Write an expression for the height and width of the large rectangle formed by the posters in terms of the height of a poster.
6. The space between the top of the posters and the top of the wall is 11 inches. The space between the bottom of the posters and the bottom of the wall is also 11 inches. If the wall measures 12 feet long by 7 feet 6 inches high, what are the dimensions of one poster?
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2. GEOMETRY The length of one side of a regular hexagon is x. A regular pentagon also has a side length of x. A square is constructed with a side length of x. What is the total perimeter of all three figures?
POSTERS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Brian wants to put six posters on his bedroom wall. The posters are all the same size. 1 The width of each poster is 8 inches more 2 than half its height.
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4. MACHINERY One model of a lift truck, often called a forklift, can raise a maximum of 1750 kilograms. Write an inequality to describe the maximum number of 40-kilogram boxes that this forklift truck can raise.
1. HIGHWAY SAFETY The Texas Transportation Commission can establish a daytime speed limit of 75 miles per hour in counties with a population density of less than 10 persons per square mile. Write an inequality to describe the population density.
2. AIR BAGS The front passenger seat of an SUV is equipped with weight sensors that determine the appropriate amount of deployment force of the air bag. If the weight on the front seat is less than 66 pounds, the air bag will not deploy. Write an inequality to show the minimum weight on the passenger seat that would lead to the deployment of the air bag.
AGRICULTURE For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Agri-Crop sells a system that uses satellites to determine the appropriate amount of fertilizer to dispense on crops. The equipment for the system costs $6000. In addition, there is a yearly fee of $950 for signal reception. 5. How much additional crop revenue would the system have to generate so that the investment is profitable for a farmer over a five-year period?
3. SAFETY An amusement park ride cannot safely restrain people under 50 inches tall or over 78 inches tall. Write two different inequalities that shows the safe height limits for riders.
Too Tall 78 You Can Ride! 50 Too Short
6. A representative from Agri-Corp estimates that the system would yield an additional $100 per acre each year of a certain crop. How large a farm should a farmer have in order to expect to make a profit using the system over a ten-year period?
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FERRIS WHEEL For Exercises 57, use the following information. David went to the Texas State Fair with a group of friends. Before going, he found the following information about the Texas Star, the largest Ferris wheel in North America.
Height Weight Maximum Capacity Length of Ride 212 feet 678,554 pounds 264 riders 1215 minutes
1. ENTERTAINMENT Gabrielle went to the movie theatre with her friends. She had $20.00 to spend. The movie ticket cost $6.25. Write an inequality to determine how much money she had to spend on snacks.
2. LICENSE To get a drivers license in most states in the United States, a driver must be at least 16 years old. Jonas is 1 14 years old. Write an inequality to 2 show how much longer Jonas must wait before he can get his divers license.
5. David is waiting in line for a ride on the Texas Star. He counts the people ahead of him and determines that he will be able to board the Texas Star on the next ride. Write an inequality to find the number of people ahead of him.
3. QUARTER HORSE The American Quarter Horse is the most popular riding horse in the world. The average weight of an American Quarter Horse at birth is 85 pounds. They grow to a maximum weight of 1300 pounds. Write and solve an inequality to find how many pounds an American Quarter Horse may gain from birth to adulthood.
6. David gets on the ride and as his car reaches the top of the wheel, notices how small the people on the ground look. Write an expression to show how they maximum distance that David is from the ground while riding the Texas Star.
4. SPORTS A big league pitching coach tries to limit his pitchers to 110 pitches per game. If the pitcher has already thrown 52 pitches, write and solve an inequality to find how many more pitches he can throw before reaching the limit.
7. David has been on the ride for 6 minutes and starts to feel dizzy. Write and solve an inequality to show the maximum amount of remaining time that David will be on the Texas Star.
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TOY MANUFACTURING For Exercises 57, use the following information. Winona Toy Company makes many kinds of toys. The table shows average production times.
Toy fire truck Average Production Time (hours) 2 3 2 4
1 4 1 3
1. BABY-SITTING Susan bought $65 worth of new clothes for school. That amount was at least half of the money she earned baby-sitting this summer. At least how much did Susan earn baby-sitting?
2. FLEAS An adult female flea lays more than 25,000 eggs every month. What is the minimum number of eggs laid by an adult female flea in one week. Let 1 month 4 weeks.
train stuffed bear doll
3. JUICE Tyrone has invited 15 friends to his birthday party. His mother bought 3 dozen bottles of juice drink for the party. Tyrone wants each person at the party to get the same number of bottles of juice drink. Write and solve an inequality to show how many bottles of juice each person at the party will get.
5. Stella is a stuffed bear maker. She works 10 hours a day. Write and solve an inequality to determine the maximum number of bears Stella may make in a day.
6. Winona Toy Company received an order for 45 bears. Stella will have to make these bears on her own. Write and solve an inequality to find how long it may take her to complete the order.
4. CRAFT FAIR The students in the seventh grade are sponsoring the school craft fair. They want to set up 15 tables, but must have at least 3 adult volunteers for each table they set up. Write and solve an inequality to find the minimum number of adult volunteers the seventh graders must have in order to set up the 15 tables.
7. Winona Toy company hopes to sell a lot of trains during the holiday season, so the managers hire another worker to make trains. What is the maximum number of trains that two workers can make in a 40-hour work week?
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4. SALARY After receiving her yearly bonus of $5000 for the current year, Clare noticed that if she added her bonus to her current salary, her total income for the current year was more than double her salary of $32,750 from the previous year. What is the minimum salary that Clare is earning? CAR LEASING For Exercises 57, use the information provided in the table below. Nathan is interested in leasing a new SUV. He collected this information from two leasing companies.
Extra Mileage Charge $0.25/mi $0.10/mi
1. CONSTRUCTION An excavation crew is digging a tunnel under a bay. The crew has dug 573 meters of the tunnel, which is 34 meters past the halfway point. What will be the length of the tunnel when the crew has finished digging?
2. BACKPACKS To avoid injury to your back, your body weight should be more than three times the weight of your backpack and its contents. Write an inequality that shows the relationship between body weight and a total backpack weight that falls within these guidelines. Use p for the backpack and c for the contents of the backpack.
Leasing Company ABC XYZ
Monthly Payment $463 $473.50
Mileage Limit 10,000 12,000
3. TRUCKING An open-bed delivery truck has a maximum cargo capacity of 473 cubic feet before the load is higher than the bed of the truck. The truck driver has a load of 12 equally sized boxes that needs to be transported. Unfortunately, the load 1 exceeds the cargo capacity by 44 cubic 2 feet. Write and solve an inequality to determine the maximum number of boxes that the truck can carry without exceeding the height of the truck bed.
5. Nathans drive to and from work each day is about 45 miles. If he goes to work about 226 days in a given year, what is the minimum amount he would have to pay in excess mileage if he leased from the ABC Leasing Company? 6. If Nathan leases from XYZ Company, how many miles can he drive after work or on the weekend without being charged for excess mileage? 7. Which leasing program would be a better deal for Nathan if he estimates that his after-work and weekend driving would total about 2500 miles annually?
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PHYSICS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Round your answers to the nearest hundredth. The time it takes for a pendulum of a grandfather clock to swing back and forth one time is called the period of the pendulum. For a pendulum of length L (in feet), the period T (in seconds) is given by
2
1. LIFEGUARDS Maria is a lifeguard in Port Aransas. When she sits in her chair, her eyes are 10 feet off the ground. On a clear day, how far can Mary see from her chair? Use the equation D 1.22 A where D is the distance in miles to the horizon at a height of A feet.
2. CONSTRUCTION Jos is building a square deck off of the back of his house. Jos has a building permit for a 432-square foot deck. How long will each side of the deck be?
5. What is the period of a pendulum that is 2 feet long?
3. GARDENING Jordan wants to fill a square flower bed with 24 perennials. The landscaper recommends that he allow 1.5 square feet per plant. What should the length of one side of the flower bed be?
6. What is the period of a pendulum that is 4 feet long?
4. BASEBALL The area of a little league diamond is 3600 square feet. The infield for a regulation-sized baseball diamond is 8100 square feet. How much farther is it from first base to second base on the regulation-sized field than on a little league field?
7. What do you think will happen to the period of a pendulum if the length of the pendulum is quadrupled? Explain.
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4. REMODELING Ashley is going to retile a part of a wall in her shower. She will use white and red tiles to make a checkerboard pattern. The area of the square section to be retiled is 36 square feet. If each square tile covers an area of 0.25 square feet, how many red tiles will Francine need?
1. GARDENING Betty wants to plant a circular garden in her backyard. The garden is going to have an area of 150
A square feet. Use the formula r
to find the radius of the garden.
2. ELECTRICITY Ralph is studying electricity in his science class. He recently learned that the formula for determining the electrical power delivered to a light bulb is P I2 R where P is electrical power in watts, I is the current in amperes, and R is resistance in ohms. Ralph wants to determine how much current is needed to light a 60-watt bulb if the resistance in the wire is 2.15 ohms. What answer will he find?
WEATHER For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information.
formula t2 where d is the distance across the storm in miles. Cindy decided to time a recent thunderstorm. 5. If the thunderstorm lasted 1 hour 50 minutes, what is the distance in miles across the storm?
d3 216
3. PHYSICS Billy is going to drop three water balloons, one at a time, out of his tree house onto a target below. His tree house is 25 feet above the ground. If Billy waits to drop the next balloon until the previous one hits the ground, how long will it take for all three balloons to hit the ground? Use the formula h 16t2 where h is the height (in feet) and t is the time (in seconds).
6. What would be the distance across if the storm lasted twice as long?
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Cindy wants to study meteorology. She has been reading about thunderstorms and found out that the time t in hours that a thunderstorm will last can often be predicted if one knows the distance across the storm in miles. Meteorologists use the
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4. QUILTING Jan wants to make a quilt using the pattern she created. The pattern is made up of triangles. What kind of triangles did Jan use in her pattern? Identify the triangles by angles and by sides.
1. LANDSCAPING Paula has a garden in the shape of a triangle. Before planting, she made a scaled drawing of the garden. She measured two of the angles of the garden. What must be the measure of the third angle?
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House
2. ORIENTEERING Angie is becoming a wilderness scout. She is learning to use a compass to orient herself in the woods. Angie has oriented the compass so the needle is pointing north. She is facing east. If she wants to head southwest, what kind of angle turn will she make: an acute, obtuse, or right angle?
MODELS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Barry is building a model house. One face of the roof is shaped like a triangle. To help him find the correct triangle to use, his father gives Barry a little math riddle: the largest angle is five more than 4 times the smallest angle and the middle angle is twice the smallest angle. 5. Write an equation to solve for the smallest angle and solve the equation.
3. TROPHIES At Freds school, the most improved students receive a trophy in the shaped of a triangle. The three side lengths of the trophy are 5 inches, 8 inches and 8 inches, and two angle measures are 36 and 72. Classify the triangle by angles and by sides.
6. Find the measures of the other two angles.
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4. AIRPLANES An airplane is flying at an elevation of 15,000 feet. The airport is 6 miles away from a point directly below the airplane on the ground. How far is the airplane from the airport?
1. HIKING Freddy is on a nature hike. He hikes west 4 miles, and then he turns due north and hikes for 2 miles. It is getting dark and Freddy wants to take the shortest route back to where he started. What is the direct distance back to his starting point?
? 15,000 ft
2. CONSTRUCTION Madeleine is helping to build a house with Habitat for Humanity. After an exterior wall is erected, she measures it to see if it is square. The height of the wall is 9 feet. She measures 12 feet along the floor from the corner and makes a mark. What should be the length of the diagonal from the top of the wall to her mark if the wall is square?
6 miles
SAFETY For Exercises 57, use the following information. For safety reasons, the base of a ladder should always be about 1 foot away from the vertical support for every 4 feet of height. 5. Pete needs to reach his cat in a tree. The cat is 15 feet off the ground and Petes ladder is 16 feet long. Can Pete safely set up the ladder to rescue his cat? Explain.
9 ft
12 ft
3. FURNITURE A corner table has a top in the shape of an isosceles right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 14 inches long, what is the length of each side?
6. How long should an extension ladder be adjusted to safely reach a window that is 22 feet above the ground?
7. What is the maximum height that a 24-foot ladder can safely reach?
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MAPS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Billy and Sam drew a scaled map of their town to determine who lives closer to the Arcade, a favorite week end meeting place for Billy and Sam. The following grid shows where Billy and Sam live and also where the Arcade is located. Each unit on the grid
1 represents mile. 2
1. MAPS On a map of Joes hometown, his house is located at (3, 4). His school is located at (2, 2). How many units are there from Joes house to his school?
2. CARTOGRAPHY Nicole is looking at a map of an amusement park. The scale is one unit equals 250 feet. The roller coaster is located at (5, 3) and the water slide at (2, 1). How many feet apart are the two rides? Round to the nearest foot.
Billys house
Sams house
Arcade
5. How far is Sams house from the Arcade? 3. LANDSCAPING Susan is planting some trees in her front yard. She planted a Bradford pear tree 12 feet west and 1 foot north of her flagpole and planted a Juniper tree 15 feet east and 3 feet north of her flagpole. How far apart are the two trees? Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
6. How far is Bills house from the Arcade?
4. HIKING Two scout patrols start hiking in opposite directions. Each patrol hikes 5 kilometers. Then the scouts turn 90 to their right and hike another 6 kilometers. How many kilometers are there between the two scout patrols?
7. How far do Sam and Bill live from one another?
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4. SHADOWS Britney is 5 feet tall and 1 casts a 3 -foot shadow at 10:00 A.M. At 2 that time, a nearby tree casts a 17-foot shadow. Two hours later, Britneys shadow is 2 feet long. What is the length of the shadow of the tree at this time?
1. CLIMBING WALLS Joes friends are going to climb the climbing wall and have invited Joe to go with them. Joe is afraid of heights and wants to know how high the climbing wall is before he climbs it. Joe is 5 feet tall and at 3:00 P.M., his shadow is 2 feet long. At the same time, the shadow of the rock-wall is 35 feet long. How high is the rock-wall?
3 4 1 2
PERIMETER AND AREA For Exercises 57, use the following information. The front yard and back yard at the Jones home are similar rectangles. The back yard is 20 feet by 30 feet. The longer dimension of the front yard is 20 feet. 5. Find the scale factor of the two yards. What is the other dimension of the front yard?
2. SWIMMING Tiens camp is having a swim race across the lake. Before the race, Teresa wants to know how many meters it is across the lake. She knows that the flagpole is 22 meters due south from the dock, and that the main cabin is 5 meters due south from the flagpole. She also knows that her cabin is 8 meters due west from the main cabin. Using the diagram below, how far is it across the lake?
xm 22 m 5m 8m
6. Find the perimeters of both yards. What is the scale factor of the perimeters?
3. PIZZA Ralphs Pizza Shop sells two sizes of rectangular pizzas that are similar in shape. A large pizza is 12 inches by 18 inches. The shorter side of the small pizza is 6 inches. What is the perimeter of the small pizza?
7. Find the areas of both yards. What is the scale factor of the areas?
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1. PROPERTY LINES The front and back property lines of Michaelas land are parallel lines. If the angle between the west side property line and back property line is 106, what is the angle between the front property line and west side property line? 4. MAPS In the following map, First Avenue, Second Avenue, and Third Avenue are parallel. Cross Street intersects all three avenues. First Avenue and Cross Street meet at a 25 angle. What angle does the intersection of Third Avenue and Cross Street make?
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HIKING For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Dave and Susie are walking on parallel trails in the woods. Daves trail turns to the right 43 and meets up with Susies trail.
3. FENCING The sections of fence in Siobans yard have diagonal supports as shown. The top side of the diagonal support makes an angle of x with the fence slats. The bottom side makes an angle that is twice the measure of the top angle. Find the measures of both angles.
500 ft 43
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Daves Trail
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5. At what angle does Daves trail meet Susies trail?

x 2x
6. How far apart were Dave and Susies trails originally?
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2. SCISSORS Archie opened up a pair of scissor so that the angle between the blades is 38. What is the angle between the handles?
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1. ROOFING The structure of a roof can be broken into congruent triangles. If side X is 12 feet long, what is the length of W Z ? side W
W X
4. AWARDS The award for Most Improved Math Student in Mrs. Pikes classroom is a circle containing two congruent triangles connected at a vertex. What E ? side in ABC corresponds to D
MOST IMPROVED
C B
MATH STUDENT
2. CONSTRUCTION Braces are often used to support walls during the construction of a house. If the two braces used in the following house are the same length and perpendicular to the ground, what is the measure of the angle x where the braces meet the ground?
KITES For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Joeys kite is made up of 4 congruent right triangles and 1 square as shown in the diagram below.
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5 cm
5. What are the three side lengths of each triangle? 3. FLOWER BEDS Jane has two congruent flower beds in her backyard. The flower beds are triangular in shape. If the longest side of one flower bed is 12 feet, how long is the longest side of the other flower bed?
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1. MAPPING Francesca wants to rearrange her bedroom, so she drew the floor plan of her bedroom on a coordinate grid. If her bed was originally located in the second quadrant, which quadrant will it be in if she rotates its position 90 clockwise? 2. ARCHEOLOGY Archeologists use a grid to record the location of artifacts in a dig site. An assistant marked grid A3 as the location of two arrow heads. The arrowheads were actually found in the grid 4 units to the right and 3 units down. Which grid should the assistant record as the location of the arrowheads?
A B C D E F G H 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
4. GAMES In the game of checkers, the pieces are set up in a particular order. Which transformation would place checker A on top of checker B?
B A
MODELS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Long-grass Landscape Company often draws a scale model of yards they are designing. The scale factor of the model shown is 1 inch to 10 feet.
3. SWIMMING POOLS Mrs. Jensen is planning to have a swimming pool installed. The contractor drew the pool on the coordinate grid. Jenny wants a bigger pool and decides a dilation with scale factor 2 centered at the origin will be sufficient. What are the coordinate of the vertices of the new pool?
POOL 2 in. 2 in. 2 in. 1 in. 5 in. PATIO
4 in.
5. Does this model represent a dilation, translation, or reflection of the actual yard?
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1. KITES Yashika got a new kite for her birthday. What quadrilateral best describes the shape of this kite? 4. WINDOWS The window above the front door in Heathers home is shown below. Find the measures of angles 1, 2, and 3.
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DESIGN For Exercises 57, use the following information. 2. PLANTERS A city used large tree planters to line the road. Identify as many different quadrilaterals as possible in the planters. Diego is going to design a kite. Two of the opposite angles are congruent. One of the other angles is half the congruent angles, and the other is twice the congruent angles. 5. Make a sketch of the kite.
6. Write an equation to find the measures of the four angles of the kite. 3. PROPERTY Mr. Orwell has some property in the middle of the wilderness. The shape of the property is a quadrilateral. Mr. Orwell knows the angles of intersections of three sides are 28, 147, and 72. What is the measure of the fourth angle of the property?
7. What are the measures of the four angles?
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1. TRAFFIC SIGNS A familiar sight to many people is the red STOP sign found at street corners and intersections. The shape of the STOP sign is shown below. Classify the polygon and determine if it appears to be regular or not regular. 4. AREA RUGS The pattern in an area rug is shown below. Identify the three different polygons used to create the pattern.
STOP
SYMBOLS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Jenna made this shape with patterns blocks.
2. NUTS AND BOLTS The nut to a standard bolt is a regular hexagon. What is the sum of the measures of the interior angles of the nut?
5. This design can be made up of 7 regular polygons. What are they?
6. This design is also made of one dodecagon. What is the sum of the measures of all the interior angles of the dodecagon?
3. WINDOWS Some older houses have regular octagonal windows. What would be the measure of one of the interior angles in this type of window?
7. What are the measures of the interior angles of the dodecagon?
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1. FLOOR PLANS Matts bedroom is shaped like a parallelogram. His parents have decided to buy a new carpet for his room. If two opposite walls are 12 feet long and the distance between these walls is 8 feet, how many square feet of carpet will they need to buy? SYMBOLS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Melanie wants to cut her cake into triangular wedges to serve at her party. She cannot decide what kind of triangle to cut. She tries two possible triangular wedges.
6 in.
3 in. 8 in.
2. SAILBOATS A sailboat has a triangular sail with a height of 18 feet and the base of 12 feet. What is the area of the sail?
4 in.
Piece 1
Piece 2
5. What is the area of the first wedge? What is the area of the second wedge? 3. TILING Mrs. Sanchez wants to tile her bathroom floor. The floor is 5 feet wide and 8 feet long. The tiles Mrs. Sanchez wants to use are 4 inch squares. How many tiles will she need to cover the bathroom floor?
6. Sketch and label another triangular wedge with the same area.
4. GLASS COSTS Mrs. Humphrey needs to replace a broken window at her house. The window is shaped like a trapezoid with the dimensions shown below. If glass costs $4.50 per square foot, how much will the replacement window cost?
21 in.
18 in.
42 in.
7. Melanie wants each guest to have the same amount of cake. If there are 54 guests at the party, what should the dimensions of the cake be so that everyone gets the same amount of cake?
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Circumference and Area: Circles
1. TREES A tree on Joannes property has a circumference of 6.8 feet. What is the diameter of the tree? 4. TOYS Josh has a large plastic disc that he uses to play catch with his dog. The disc has a radius of 6 inches. What is the area of the disc?
PIZZA For Exercises 57, use the following information. 2. DOGS Carls dog, Buddy, is on an 8-foot leash that is attached to the center of a 20-foot fence. How much space does Buddy have to roam around? At Pacos Pizza Shop, a large pizza has a diameter of 16 inches. A small pizza has a diameter of 12 inches.
8 ft 20 ft
5. What is the area of the small pizza? What is the area of the large pizza?
6. A large pizza costs $9.95 and a small pizza costs $5.95. Which pizza is a better deal? Explain.
3. KITCHEN FURNITURE Mr. Margulies bought four new stools for her kitchen. Each stool top has a diameter of 14 inches. Mr. Margulies wants to make pads for each stool. The padding is three cents per square inch. How much will Mr. Margulies spend in padding for the four stools?
7. On Tuesdays, Pacos Pizza has a special, two small pizzas for $11.25. Is this truly a special price? Explain your reasoning.
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Area: Composite Figures
1. SHELVING The back of a shelving unit is shown below. How much plywood is needed to construct this piece of the unit? Round to the nearest whole number.
25 in.
4. LOGOS The logo for Super Soda Company is shown below. What is the area of the shaded region?
10 in. 45 in.
4 in. 4 in.
2. LANDSCAPING Peters backyard is rectangular in shape, with dimensions 60 feet by 50 feet. He plans to install a circular above ground pool that has a diameter of 20 feet. What will be the area of his backyard that is left after installing the pool? Round to the nearest whole number.
BOATS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. Frank is using a template to make a boat cover out of canvas for his boat. The template is shown below.
6 ft 14 ft 20 ft
3. DOG HOUSES Barbara is going to paint the front of her dogs house green. If one quart of paint covers 8 square feet, will she need more than one quart?
24 in. 36 in. 48 in. 24 in. 24 in.
14 ft
6 ft
5. How many square feet of canvas will he need to make the template?
6. If canvas costs $8.00 a square yard, how much will the canvas cost?
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Three-Dimensional Figures
1. ARCHITECTURE The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., is shaped like a pentagonal prism. Use the figure below to identify its bases and faces.
B A F J E C G D I H 4 2 3 1 3 1 4 2
4. SCULPTURE Use the top-count view of the sculpture to sketch the threedimensional model of the sculpture.
2. BUILDINGS The sketch below shows the plans for a tower to be built in Dallas, Texas. Draw and label the top, front, and side views and a top-count view.
DICE For Exercises 57, use the following information. Dice come in many different shapes. The most common die has six sides. There are also dice with four, eight, twelve and twenty sides.
5. How many faces does each die mentioned above have?
6. How many edges do the four-, six-, and eight-sided dice have?
3. CONTAINERS Frozen juice concentrate comes in a particular solid. Identify the solid and name 4 other food products that come in a similarly shaped solid.
7. How many vertices do the four-, six-, and eight-sided dice have?
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Volume: Prisms and Cylinders
1. CONSTRUCTION Johnson Construction Company is going to build a house on a concrete slab. The slab is to have dimensions 30 feet by 20 feet by 2 feet. How many cubic feet of concrete should the construction company order? 4. AGRICULTURE Sue is going to build a planter as sketched below. How many cubic feet of dirt will be needed to fill the planter?
4 ft
1 ft 1.25 ft 1 ft 2 ft 1.25 ft
2. PACKAGING The Fresh Chili Company is changing the size of their cans of chili. The new can needs to hold 500 cubic centimeters of chili. The height of the can is to be 11 centimeters. What must the radius of the new can be? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The town of Old Creek, Oklahoma, has a water reservoir that is shaped like a triangular prism. The area of the triangular surface of the reservoir is 1500 square yards, and the depth is 20 yards.
5. When the reservoir is completely full, how many gallons of water does it hold? (Hint: 1 yd3 holds approximately 202 gallons.) 3. WASTE COLLECTION At Peters job, he needs to empty wastebaskets. The cylindrically shaped wastebaskets have a height of 3 feet and a diameter of 1 feet. Peter empties the wastebaskets into a dumpster that is shaped like a rectangular prism. If the dumpster is 8 feet wide, 6 feet deep, and 5 feet tall, how many wastebaskets full of trash will fit in the dumpster?
1 2
6. After 75 days of no rain, the reservoir is now only 4 yards deep. How many gallons of water have been used?
7. Find the average gallons-per-day rate of water that was used from the reservoir.
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WATER STORAGE For Exercises 57, use the following information.
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1. ARCHITECTURE Although the Eiffel Tower in Paris is not a solid pyramid, its shape approximates that of a pyramid with a square base measuring 120 feet on a side and a height of 980 feet. If it were a solid pyramid, what would be the Eiffel Towers volume, in cubic feet? FARMING For Exercises 57, use the following information. Round to the nearest whole number if necessary. Mr. Mills has just finished his corn harvest. He filled 12 trucks with corn and needs to move the corn to one of the two silos on his farm. Each truck bed is shaped like a rectangular prism having dimensions 10 feet wide, 20 feet long, and 6 feet tall. Mr. Mills needs to fit all the corn in the same silo.
8 ft 8 ft
2. WEATHER After a snow storm, you and a friend decide to build a snowman. You use three spheres of snow to build the snowman. The bottom sphere has a diameter of 4 feet, the middle has a diameter of 2 feet, and the head has a diameter of 18 inches. What is the volume of the snowman? Round your answer to the nearest cubic foot.
50 ft 40 ft 25 ft 15 ft
Silo A
Silo B
3. ICE CREAM A spherical scoop of ice cream is placed on a waffle cone. The diameter of the ice cream scoop is 6.4 centimeters. The waffle cone has a diameter of 5 centimeters and a height of 9 centimeters. If all the ice cream melts before you eat any, how much of the melted ice cream will overflow the waffle cone? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
5. How much corn has Mr. Mills harvested?
6. How much corn will each silo hold?
4. HISTORY The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt has a square base measuring 756 feet on a side and a height of 481 feet. The stones used to build the Great Pyramid were limestone blocks with an average volume of 40 cubic feet. How many of these blocks were needed to construct the Great Pyramid? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Surface Area: Prisms and Cylinders
1. DECORATING Ms. Frank is going to wallpaper a living room with dimensions 24 feet long, 18 feet wide, and 8 feet high. What surface area does Ms. Frank plan to wallpaper? 2. MANUFACTURING The Acme Canning Company produces cans for chicken soup. If each can has a diameter of 2 inches and a height of 3 inches, how much aluminum is needed to make one can? Round to the nearest hundredth.
38 in. 38 in.
SHIPPING For Exercises 57, use the following information. FPS, a shipping company, uses a container in the shape of a triangular prism to pack blueprints, posters, and other items that can be rolled up to fit inside the container. Packages-R-Us uses a container shaped like a cylinder for the same purposes. The cardboard used to make each container costs the same amount per square inch.
5.2 in.
1 4
3. MUSEUM A museum curator needs to order a display case for a small artifact. The case needs to be a rectangular prism and made entirely of clear plastic. The bases must each measure 1 feet by 1 feet and the sides each 3 feet high. Find the cost of the case if the clear plastic costs $10 per square foot.
3 4 1 2
2 in.
6 in.
5. What is the surface area of the FPS box?
4. SIDING The Ramirez family is going to put vinyl siding on a shed. They will cover all four walls completely, except for the door. The siding costs $3 per square foot. How much will the siding cost for their shed?
6. What is the surface area of the Packages-R-US box?
5 ft 3 ft 7 ft 15 ft 10 ft
8 ft
7. If each company buys 100 of these packages, which company will spend less money per package? Explain.
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Surface Area: Pyramids and Cones
1. PARTY HATS The Goodtime Company needs to make paper hats to use for special events. The paper hats are in the shape of a cone. The radius of the cone is 8 centimeters and the slant height is 20 centimeters. How many square centimeters of paper are needed to make each hat? Round our answer to the nearest tenth. 4. STORAGE TANKS A water storage tank has a roof that is shaped like a square pyramid. What is the surface area of the water tank?
7.8 ft
10 ft 10 ft 10 ft
2. TEEPEES Ryan is trying to build a teepee for a school project on Native Americans. Teepees are approximately the shape of a cone. Ryan has 290 square feet of canvas to make the teepee. If the diameter is to be 12 feet, what will the slant height be if he uses all the canvas?
ICE CREAM For Exercises 57, use the following information. The SmileTime Ice Cream Co. is going to begin selling their ice cream in cardboard cones instead of cylindrically-shaped cups. (Note: There is no top on either container.)
3 2 in.
1
3. SCOOPS Audrey uses a metal scoop to measure the correct amount of food to give to her horse. The scoop is shaped like a cone and is shown below. How much metal was used to make the scoop? Round your answer to the nearest tenth
6 in.
1 4 in. 2 2 in.
1
2 2 in.
5. What is the surface area of each container? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
8 2 in.
6. If the paper costs 90 per square foot, how much does SmileTime Ice Cream Company save for every 100 cups they buy?
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Similar Solids
1. PACKAGING The Homemade Soup Company sells two sizes of soup cans. One can has a diameter of 3 inches and a height of 5 inches. The larger can has a diameter of 4 inches and a height of 6 inches. Are the two cans similar? Explain.
PACKAGING For Exercises 57, use the following information. Lisa was at the movies and wanted to buy some popcorn. The popcorn was sold in two similarly shaped cylindrical containers. The small container cost $4.50 and the large container cost $6.00. The small container is 8 inches tall and has a diameter of 5 inches. The large container is 10 inches tall.
2. WATER TANKS Morgan Plumbers installed a cylindrical water tank that is 5.4 feet tall, has a radius of 2.1 feet and holds about 540 gallons of water. A similarly shaped water tank has a radius of 1.5 feet. How much water will the smaller tank hold?
5. What is the diameter of the large container? 3. CEREAL BOXES Tom is given three cereal boxes, as shown below. He needs to determine which two are similar. Which boxes are similar, and what is the scale factor from the small box to the large?
12 in. 6 in. 8 in. 3 in. 4 in. 4 in. 1.5 in. 3 in. 1 in.
6. What are the volumes of the large and small containers?
Box A
Box B
Box C
7. Which size popcorn is the better deal? Explain.
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4. ICE SCULPTURE Larry is carving an ice swan for a wedding. His model is one-sixth the size of the actual carving. If his model weighs 3 pounds, how much will the actual carving weigh?
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Stem-and-Leaf Plots
1. CUSTOMER SERVICE A restaurant owner recorded the average time in minutes customers waited to be seated each night. His data are shown in the table below. To organize the data into a stem-and-leaf plot, how many stems would you need?
Week 1 Week 2 15 9 8 3 10 7 5 8 20 25 35 38 45 43
4. TEST SCORES The scores from the most recent test in Mr. James biology class are shown in the stem-and-leaf plot below. Find the highest and lowest scores, and then write a statement that describes the data.
Stem 5 6 7 8 9 Leaf 4 5 3 7 8 0 1 5 5 8 9 0 2 3 7 9 0 3 5 8 8 5|4 =54%
2. PHONE Allisons mother makes a stemand-leaf plot to track the time in minutes that Allison spends talking on the phone each night. In which interval are most of the Allisons calls?
Stem 1 2 3 4
Leaf 0 5 3 4 5 8 9 0 5 8 13 5 1|5 =15 minutes
SPORTS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Tamara and LaDawn have recorded their times in seconds in the 100-meter dash from the past six track meets in the table below.
LaDawn Tamara 16.5 16.7 16.6 16.4 17.0 16.1 16.8 17.0 17.2 16.5 17.1 16.8
3. ELECTRIC BILLS Jennys family is selling their house. Jennys mother wants to put together a table of monthly electricity costs. Below is a list of their electric bills for the past twelve months. Organize the data in a stem-and-leaf plot. In which interval are most of the electric bills? $95, $99, $85, $79, $82, $88, $98, $95, $94, $87, $89, $90
5. Organize the times in a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot.
6. What are the median times for LaDawn and for Tamara?
7. If you were the coach, who would you choose to represent the team at the next competition? Explain.
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Measures of Variation
1. SUSPENSION BRIDGES The lengths in meters of the worlds largest suspension bridges are given in the table below. Find the range of the data.
Suspension Bridge AkashiKaikyo Bridge Great Belt Bridge Runyang Bridge Humber Bridge Jiangyin Suspension Bridge Tsing Ma Bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge Golden Gate Bridge Hoga Kusten Bridge Mackinac Bridge Length of center span (meters) 1991 1624 1490 1410 1385 1377 1298 1280 1210 1158
4. BASKETBALL Jan tracked the points per game of his favorite basketball player for the 20042005 season. During the last six games that he played in the season, he scored these points: 42, 18, 20, 33, 22, 37. Find the upper and lower quartiles, the interquartile range, and determine if there are any outliers.
SPORTS For Exercises 57, use the following information. Rodney researched the longest-playing professional baseball players. He made a table of the nine who have played professional baseball for 25 seasons or more.
Player Eddie Collins Cap Anson Jim Kaat Bobby Wallace Tommy John Charlie Hough Rickey Henderson Deacon McGuire Nolan Ryan Years Played 25 27 25 25 26 27 25 26 27
2. ACADEMICS Mrs. Santiago gave each of her 21 students a reading test. The scores are organized in the stem-andleaf plot below. Find the median score.
Stem 1 2 3 4 5 Leaf 5 7 8 9 0 2 5 5 7 8 0 2 5 7 9 2 4 5 8 9 0 2|5 5 25
Source: www.baseballreference.com
5. Find the range of the data set. 3. EXERCISE Shown below is the number of minutes Yashika walked each day for two weeks. Find the upper and lower quartile of the data.
Week 1 Week 2 25 35 22 42 15 30 30 25 45 20 18 15 25 10
6. What is the median of the data set?
7. Find the upper and lower quartile and the interquartile range.
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Box-and-Whisker Plots
1. CARS Martina bought a new car and wanted to know how many miles per gallon her new car got. She kept track of her mileage and gas consumption for 10 separate trips. The miles per gallon are displayed in the box-and-whisker plot below. What is the median of the data? 4. FOOD The table shows the recent top 10 ice cream-consuming countries. Make a box-and-whisker plot of the data.
Country Australia New Zealand USA Sweden Canada Ireland Norway Finland Denmark Germany Consumption per Capita (pints) 36.8 27.8 27.5 23.8 22.2 20.6 20.2 19.4 16.9 16.7
20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40
2. ZOOLOGY Archie researched pandas for a science project. He looked up the weight in kilograms of adult pandas and displayed the data in a box-and-whisker plot. How much do most adult pandas weigh?
16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
WEATHER For Exercises 57, use the information below.

80 88 96 104 112 120
George researched peak wind gusts in Texas. He made a box-and-whisker plot to display the data he collected.
3. SPORTS The number of games won by the teams in each conference of the National Basketball League is displayed below. Write a few sentences that compare the data.
Eastern Conference Western Conference 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
50
60
70
80
90
100
5. What is the slowest recorded wind gust?
6. What percent of the wind gusts range from 67 to 82 miles per hour? 7. What would a peak gust have to be for it to be an outlier?
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Histograms
1. MUSIC Students in grades 612 were asked, Of the songs you listen to, what percent of the songs lyrics do you know? The histogram shows the results. How many students responded in all?
24 Number of Students 21 18 15 12 9 6 3 0
0
4. WEATHER The list below shows the highest recorded temperature of the 20 largest U.S. cities. Display the data in a histogram. 122 110 111 106 109 105 104 104 105 102 104 106 102 104 108 112 113 109 111 103
9%
4%
25
26
50
Percent Temperature
2. VOLUNTEERING The histogram shows how many hours per year a group of teens said they spend volunteering. How many hours did most of them volunteer?
Number of Times 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
% 9% 9% 9% 19 3 5 7 0 20 40 60 80 9 9%
75
9%
NEWSPAPERS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the histogram below. Teens ages 13 to 18 who read a newspaper at least once a week were asked How many minutes a day, on average, do you spend reading the newspaper? The responses are displayed in the histogram.
Frequency 50 40 30 20 10 0 Number of Teens
9 2 20 30
10
Hours
Minutes
3. MONEY A group of Amount Number of Students students were asked 0-$9 54 How much cash $10-$19 20 (in bills) is in your $20-$29 16 $30-$39 5 wallet right now? $40-$49 4 $50-$59 1 Construct a histogram to represent the data.
Number of Students 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
0 $9 $ 19 $ 29 $ 39 $ 49 $1 0 $2 0 $3 0 $4 0 $5 0 $ 59
5. How many teens said they read a newspaper for less than 30 minutes?
6. How many teens were surveyed in all?
Cash
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Choosing an Appropriate Display
1. RADIO The table below shows the average amount of time that teenagers spent listening to the radio from 1999 to 2003. What would be an appropriate way to display the data?
Year 1999 Hours/week 11.4 2000 10.5 2001 10.0 2002 9.25 2003 8.5
4. MONEY MATTERS The table below shows the minimum age that a person must be in order to obtain a full drivers license. Would a box-and-whisker plot be an appropriate display of the data set? Explain.
State Minimum age (yr, mo) CT GA ID 15,0 NJ 17,0 TX 16,0
16, 6 18,0
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2. TELEVISION The table below shows the number of hours students spend watching TV in one week. What would be an appropriate way to display the data?
Students 1-10 11-20 Hours 6 19 21-30 31-40 40+ 14 4 1
VIDEO GAMES For Exercises 5-7, use the information below. The table shows some of the recent top selling video game categories.
Genre Action Children Racing Simulation Sports Percent 30.1% 9.5% 9.4% 9.0% 17.8%
3. ENTERTAINMENT Teens spend more time on the Internet than with any other form of media. In an average week, they spend 16.7 hours online versus 13.6 hours watching TV, and 12 hours listening to the radio. Display the data using the most appropriate display.
Source: www.theesa.com/archives
5. What type of graph would best represents the data if each category is to be compared to the whole?
28.4% Radio
39.5% Online
32.1% TV
6. What type of graph would best represents the data if the categories are to be compared to each other?
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7. Suppose you wanted to compare how the percent of action games had changed over the last 5 years. What type of graph would best represent the situation?
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Lesson 12-6
1. TELEPHONE SERVICE A market research company was hired to track the market share of AllTalk, a long-distance carrier, from 2003 to 2006. Which graph shows a more dramatic increase?
Number of Subscribers (in millions)
4. MARKETING The graph below displays the results of a taste test of different colas. The graph suggests that cola B was the overwhelming favorite. Is this statement accurate? Explain.
15 14 13 12 11 10
Graph A
10 8 6 4 2 0 2001 2002 2003 2004 Year 20 15 10 5
Graph B
0 2001 2002 2003 2004 Year
Cola A
Cola B
2. HOUSING The graphs below show the median sales price of new single-family homes sold in the United States in 1990 and 2000. Explain why the graphs look different.
Graph A 200 150 100 50 0 180 160 140 120 0 Value ($1000) Graph B
1990 2000 Year
1990 2000 Year
TASTE TESTS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the graphs below. Tasty Chicken Restaurant wanted to find out which chicken strips people prefer. The restaurant offered three kinds of chicken strips to taste. The results are displayed in the graphs below.
Graph A 28 24 20 16 12 8 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Value ($1000) Graph B
3. POSTAL RATES Emma wants to graph postal rates from 1981 to 2005.
1981 1985 1988 1991 1995 1999 2002 2005 20 22 25 29 32 33 34 37
Source: http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/economics/postal-rates.htm
A B C Samples
A B C Samples
5. Do both graphs show the same information?
In her graph, she wants to exaggerate the increases. How can she show this?
6. Which graph suggests that choice B was preferred three to one?
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Simple Probability
1. PINS AND NEEDLES A pin is dropped at random onto the rectangle below. The pin lands in one of the small squares. What is the probability that the pin lands inside a gray square? 4. CANDY A bag of chewy candies contains 22 cherry, 16 green apple, 15 lemonade, 15 orange, and 9 grape candies. Lashanda picks a piece from the bag without looking. What is the probability that she will pick a grape candy? Express the answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth and as a percent. FUND-RAISING For Exercises 57, use the following information. To raise money, Angies class sold 80 boxes of cookies. She made the table below to show which cookies they sold the most.
Bestselling Baker Cookies Mints Cookies 25% Caramel Cookies 19% Peanut Butter Cookies 13% Chocolate Cookies 11% Butter Cookies 9%
2. VIDEO GAMES Tyler has 14 video games. Five are action/adventure games, 2 are arcade games, 1 is a racing game, and 6 are sports games. Tyler cannot decide which game to play, so he will choose one without looking. What is the probability that the game he chooses is an arcade game?
3. VOLUNTEERING Aisha surveyed her classmates to find out where they get their news. Of a group of 320 teens, about how many get their news online?
Where Teens Get Their News
Radio 7% Magazines 4%
5. About how many people bought chocolate cookies?
6. About how many people bought caramel cookies?
Online 9% Word of mouth 14% Newspaper 18%

Source: usaweekend.com
TV 48%
7. How many people would you expect to say that they bought another type of Baker Cookie that is not listed in the table?
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Counting Outcomes
1. SPORTS Khalil plays on the interleague soccer team at school. The team has practice jerseys for the players. The jerseys come in blue, black, or gray, in sizes small, medium, and large. Draw a tree diagram to list all of the practice jerseys Khalil can choose from. 4. FOOD A local bookstore offers a limited sandwich menu for their lunch-time customers. The choices are listed in the table below. How many different kinds of sandwiches does the bookstore offer?
Bread White Wheat Rye Italian Meat Turkey Roast Beef Ham Condiments Lettuce Tomato Cheese Onions
2. CLOTHING Brittany is choosing an outfit to wear to the football game on Friday night. She has 5 sweaters, 7 turtlenecks, and 8 pairs of pants from which to choose. How many different outfits can she choose from?
5. How many different three-letter combinations are there for a license plate?
3. GAMES Jen and Travis are playing a game that requires each player to roll a number cube and choose one ball from a bag without looking that contains one red, one blue, one green, and two yellow balls. The player that rolls an even number and chooses a yellow ball is the winner. What is the probability of a player rolling an even number and drawing a yellow ball without looking?
6. How many different three-digit combinations are there for a license plate?
7. How many different license plates can the state issue?
8. The license plate on Chets mothers car is CPD 290, which are Chets initials. What is the probability of his mother getting that license plate?
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LICENSE PLATES For Exercises 58, use the following information. Chet noticed that most of the license plate numbers in his state have three letters, A through Z, followed by three digits, 0 through 9.
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Permutations and Combinations
1. SOFTBALL There are 10 players on Julias softball team. The coach is deciding on the batting order for the next game. How many different orders does the coach have to choose the first 4 batters? 4. LICENSE PLATES In Ohio, license plates are issued with three letters followed by four numbers. The first number cannot be zero. Numbers repeat, but letters do not. How many license plates can Ohio generate with this format? SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. In the United States, each citizen is assigned a nine-digit social security number. The first three digits of the social security number are assigned based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the original application form. The two middle digits of the social security number, which range from 01 through 99, are used to break all of the social security numbers within the same area number into smaller blocks. The last four digits in a social security number run consecutively from 0001 through 9999. 5. How many social security numbers that start with 467 are possible?
2. PIZZA The owner of the Pizza Village wants to advertise her pizza shop on the radio. The table below shows all of the different pizzas the Pizza Village offers. How many different 1-topping pizzas can she say they offer?
Crust Thin Thick Deep-dish Pizza Village Size Toppings Small Extra cheese Medium Sausage Large Mushrooms Olives Onions Vegetables Pepperoni Sausage
3. FOOTBALL Ryan and Gus play on a 6-man football team. The team has 9 players in all. How many different combination of players can their coach put on the field at any one time?
6. There are 38 social security area numbers assigned to Texas. How many different social security numbers are possible?
7. There are 72 areas among the 50 states and the District of Columbia. How many different social security numbers are possible?
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Probability of Composite Events
1. BIRTHDAYS Sarahs birthday and Dakotas birthday are both in May. What is the probability that their birthdays are the same day in May? 4. MONEY Mr. Santiago pulls two bills at random from the 4 $1 bills, 3 $5 bills, and 1 $20 bill in his pocket. What is the probability that he chooses one $1 bill and one $5 bill?
Team
2. GAMES Marvin and Greg are playing a card game. The deck of cards has 25 red cards, 25 yellow cards, 25 blue cards, 25 green cards, and 8 wild cards. Marvin shuffles the deck two times before he starts to deal the cards. What is the probability that the first card Marvin deals is yellow or wild card?
ANALYZE GRAPHS For Excercises 5 and 6, use the information below. The graph shows the favorite sports team of teens between the ages of 15 and 18.
Favorite Sports Team
SF 49ers Chicago Cubs Philadelphia 76ers Chicago Bulls Green Bay Packers Atlanta Braves NY Yankees Dallas Cowboys LA Lakers 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Number of Votes (per 100) Source: www.stamats.com/stamatsstats/stamatstatvol2no11.htm
6. What is the probability that one teen likes the L.A. lakers adn another likes the N.Y. Yankees? Express as a percent rounded to the nearest thousandth.
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3. DOMINOES A set of dominoes contains 91 tiles, with the numbers on the tiles ranging from 0 to 12. There are 13 tiles that have the same number on each end. These tiles are called doubles. To begin a game, each player draws one tile, which is not returned to the pile. What is the probability that the first and second players each draw a double?
5. What is the probability that one teen likes the Dallas Cowboys and another likes the Atlanta Braves? Express as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth.
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1. PLANETS The diameter of a planet can be found by knowing the distance from the viewer to the planet, d, and the planets angular size, A, or how big it appears to be. The approximate diameter is found using the expression 2 dA. Is this expression a polynomial? 360 Explain. If it is, classify it as monomial, binomial, or trinomial.
A d D
4. DIVING A diver practices for an upcoming meet. She dives from a platform and follows a trajectory that can be expressed by the equation y 2x4 12x. Classify the equation as monomial, binomial, or trinomial and find the degree of the polynomial.
ROCK CLIMBING For Exercises 57, use the following information. A rock climber plans to climb up one side of the mountain and down the other.
2y
2 3 xy
2x
2x
x x
3y
3y
2. AIRPLANES The steady ascent of an airplane is represented by the equation 3 y x 2. What is the degree of the 7 polynomial?
y
5. Write the polynomial expression that represents the distance the rock climber will travel.
6. Classify the polynomial as a monomial, binomial, or trinomial.
3. BASKETBALL A basketball player takes a shot from inside the foul line. The ball travels on an arch according to the equation y 0.6x2 3.2x 6. Classify the equation as monomial, binomial, or trinomial and find the degree of the polynomial.
7. What is the degree of the polynomial?
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1. TELEPHONE PLAN A phone plan with XYZ Cellular costs $49 per month, with additional fees of t per text message and e per minute for any extra minutes not covered by the plan. Aaron sent 13 text messages and used 7 extra minutes in January, and sent 8 text messages and used 27 extra minutes in February. Write an expression representing Aarons two month telephone bill. 4. ANCIENT ART A mosaic is a panel made up of objects, such as broken glass or seashells, that form a design. One method for producing mosaic, which the ancient Greeks and Romans often used, was to press tiles into grout. Held in place by the grout, some of the designs have survived for thousands of years. x6 Suppose an artisan wanted to create a square mosaic panel measuring x inches on a side by first lining the edges with a row of tiles that measured 1 inch square. Write an expression to represent the number of square edge tiles needed for the panel. Sample answers:
2. GARDENING Marty and Jack are planning a 3 x x 3 vegetable garden together. They decide that they want a design with six square pieces in the middle and a 3-foot border around the outside. Write an expression that represents the area of the garden.
x
3
PRINT SHOP For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. A small business provides a photocopying and printing service for its customers. Its prices are listed in the table. Product Greeting Card Folded Brochure Poster Price Each $0.50 $1.00 $4.25
3. SNACK SALE Susanna and Winston held a snack sale to raise money for a class trip. Item Number They sold Sold drinks for d Lemonade 20 dollars each Fruit Punch 34 and snacks Apple 18 for s dollars 9 each. Starting Pretzel Granola Bar 28 with $30 to begin with, they sold items according to the table. Write an expression that represents how much money they had at the end of the snack sale.
5. Write the polynomial expression that represents the total cost of a print job that includes c cards, b brochures, and p posters.
6. If a copy job costs $232.50 in total and includes 100 greeting cards and 55 brochures, how many posters were included?
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1. GEOGRAPHY The highest point in the state of Oklahoma is Black Mesa and the lowest point is the Little River. The difference in elevation between these two points is 176 meters more than the sum of the elevations. What is the elevation of the lowest point in Oklahoma? 4. POSTERS Pam and her friends are making a poster for the clothing drive at school. They decide on the design below. Each rectangle will be outlined with ribbon. Write an expression to show much more ribbon Pam and her friends will need for the larger rectangle than for the smaller one.
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2. TAXI FARES The rate for a taxicab in Austin is $3.50 for the first mile plus $2 for each additional mile. In Houston, the taxi rate is $4 for the first mile and $1.80 for every mile thereafter. What is the difference between the taxi rates of these two cities?
INTERIOR DECORATING For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information.
3. GEOMETRY The perimeter of the isosceles triangle is 8x 3 inches. Find the length of the third side.
5. Write the polynomial expression that represents the length of her room.
3x 2
6. The total amount of border Shayla used was 14x + 10 feet. Write the polynomial expression that represents the width of her room.
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Shayla is putting up a wallpaper border on the walls in her room. The border comes in pieces that are x feet long. Shayla figures that she will need 4 pieces plus an extra 3 feet of border to trim the long wall of her room.
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1. BOOKS The largest published book in the world is Michael Hawleys Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom. The length of a page is 3 feet shorter than twice its width. The perimeter of a page is 24 feet. What are the dimensions of the book? 4. FLAGS The largest flag flown from a flagstaff is a Brazilian national flag in Brasilia, Brazil. The width of the flag is 20 meters more than half the length. Find the area of the flag. Write in simplest form
MANUFACTURING For Exercises 57, use the following information. Caseys Cardboard Company makes different sizes of cardboard boxes. The figure below shows a template for one size cardboard box before it has been cut and folded.
5x 2 2x 2x
2. GEOMETRY Find the area of the shaded region. Write in simplest form.
2 3x 4
x x
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5. Write a simplified expression to represent the surface area of the cardboard box. 3. FOOTBALL The dimensions of Canadian football fields are different than the dimensions of American football fields. Use the information in the table to find the length and width of each football field. Playing Field Plus End Zones Measure American (ft) Canadian (ft) Perimeter 1040 1290 Width w w Length 2w 40 (2w 40) 20
6. Find the surface area of the box if x is 4 inches.
7. Suppose a side is extended to so the box will be completely enclosed when it is put together. Write a simplified expression to represent the surface area of the enclosed box.
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Linear and Nonlinear Functions
1. TEMPERATURE In the United States, temperature is most often measured in degrees Fahrenheit. Temperature is measured in degrees Celsius in the metric system. The formula used to convert between these two units of 9 measure is F C 32 where F 5 represents degrees Fahrenheit and C represents degrees Celsius. Does this equation represent a linear or nonlinear function? 4. FOOTBALL PUNTS The function h 16t2 90t 1.5 represents the height h of the football, in feet, after t seconds when a punter kicks the ball with an upward velocity of 90 feet per second and his foot meets the ball 1.5 feet off the ground. Is this a linear function of time? Explain.
FLIGHT RESEARCH For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. 2. COMPUTER GAMES Suppose the function 0.005d2 0.12d h is used to simulate the path of a golf ball that is hit off a tee in a computer game. Does this equation represent a linear or nonlinear function? The equation h 16t2 608t 4482 represents the height, h, in feet, of a pilot over time, t, in seconds, after he or she has ejected from a jet and falls to Earth with the aid of a parachute. A pilot is flying at an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet and is forced to eject from the jet. The equation h 10,000 represents an altitude of 10,000 feet.
y h 10000
3. GASOLINE The table below shows gasoline prices in Springfield during a one-month period. Is the change in gas price a linear function? Explain.
h 16 t 2 608 t 4482
Day of the Month 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 21 24 27 30
Price per Gallon $2.57 $2.72 $2.72 $2.88 $2.88 $2.84 $2.76 $2.72 $2.64 $2.60 $2.52
5. Which equation is a linear function?
6. Explain why the other equation is a nonlinear function.
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1. RACING Between the ages of 8 and 16, Houston native Erica Enders won 37 junior dragster races. The distance her car travels down the drag strip can be 1 expressed by the equation d at2, 2 where a is the rate of acceleration and t is time. Suppose her car accelerates at a rate of 49.5 feet per second. Find the number of feet her car traveled after 7 seconds. 4. GEOMETRY Write the function for the volume of a cone as a function of a radius r units if the height equals the radius. Then graph the function.
72 V 66 60 54 48 42 36 30 24 18 12 6 O
r
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
FIREWORKS For Exercises 5 and 6, use the following information. 2. PHYSICS The top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is 185 feet above the ground. Suppose an object is dropped from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The height h in feet of the object, after t seconds, is represented by the equation h 185 16t2. An object is dropped off the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. How far from the ground is it after 3 seconds? The largest annual pyrotechnic display in North America is Thunder over Louisville held to kick off the Kentucky Derby Festival. The table shows the larger shell sizes and their corresponding velocities. Shell Size (in.) Initial Velocity (ft/sec) 8 235 10 263 12 287.5 24 393 36 481
Source: www.pyropage.net/physics.html
3. VISTAS The Texas State Capitol building is 311 feet tall. The formula 2 a d2 represents the number of miles 3 d that a person can see from an altitude of a feet. Graph the function and use it to estimate how far you could see from the top of the Texas State Capitol.
450 a 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 O 5 10 15 20
5. The equation h 16t2 235t 3 represents the height h in feet of an 8-inch shell t seconds after it is launched from 3 feet with an initial velocity of 235 feet per second. Graph the equation.
900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 O
x
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
d
25
6. How high is the shell after 5 seconds?
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