Word Problems
Percent Notation
Ratios, Percents, and Proportions
Real Numbers
Exponents
100
Joy takes a car and a boat to get to work. It takes Joy two hours to get to work each morning. If Joy spends 45 minutes on the boat, how long does she spend driving?
1 hr 15 min
100
What is 7/20 as a decimal?
0.35
100
An aquarium has 14 seals, 22 penguins and 4 sea turtles. What is the ratio of sea turtles to seals?
Remember to reduce your ratio to the smallest numbers possible.
2:7
100
Which family of numbers begins with the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, …?
Whole numbers
100
Simplify, if possible
y16
200
Linda brings four apples and Joey brings six apples. How many apples does each friend get if there are five friends?
Two/2
200
You go to the store to buy shoes and realize they are marked at 30% off. If the original price of the shoes is $55, what will the discounted price be?
$38.50
200
Solve the following combination: 5 C 2.
10
200
Solve -(-|-5|)
5
200
Simplify, if possible
52 or 25
300
What important thing do you have to remember when restating word problems?
It should essentially be the same math problem.
300
Convert 7/15 to a percent
46.7%
300
Jane is attempting to unlock her locker but has forgotten her locker combination. The lock uses 3 numbers and includes only the numbers 1 to 9. The digits cannot be repeated in the combination. How many possible locker combinations can be formed?
(9P3)
504
300
Simplify |1 - 3|
2
300
Simplify, if possible
35x7
400
Two trains meet each other in Treeport. One train comes from the east two hours away. The other train comes from the west three hours away. If both trains are each 120 miles away from Treeport, how much faster is the faster train traveling?
120/2= 60 mph for one train
120/3= 40 mph for the other
60-40= 20 mph faster
400
Convert 43.6% to a fraction
109/250
400
A car goes 825 miles on 3 tanks of gas. How far can it go on 7 tanks of gas?
1925 miles
400
What is an example of an irrational number?
pi or square root of 2
400
Simplify, if possible
Not possible, it's as simplified as it can be
500
Six lollipops are divided equally among three friends. If each friend now has 10 lollipops, how many lollipops did each friend originally have?
6/3=2
10-2= 8
500
Convert 28.4% to a fraction
28.4/100 -> 284/1000 -> 142/500 ->
71/250
500
Emily can rake her lawn in 5 hours. Andrew can rake the same lawn in 8 hours. Rounded to the nearest hour, how long will the job take if they work together?
1/5+1/8=1/t
3.08
500
The following set of numbers are examples of what type of numbers?
-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3
Integers
500
Simplify
(a9)(b3)