Scale drawings
Kayla has a shed in her backyard that is 3ft wide, 5ft tall, and 10ft long. She is making a picture of her shed and wants to draw a scale of it to fit on her paper. She will use a scale of 1/2in = 2ft. What will be the length of the picture?
2.5in
Sage's ice cream recipe calls for 9 pounds of strawberries, 1 3/4 gallons of cream, and 1 1/3 gallons of milk. The recipe makes 5 gallons of ice cream.
How many pounds of strawberries does Sage need per gallon of ice cream?
1.8 pounds or 1 4/5
A shrimp is fed 1/5 of a gram of food each feeding and is fed 3 times each day.
How many days will it take the shrimp to consume 4.2 grams?
7 days
A car traveling down a highway at a constant speed of 65 miles per hour.
At this rate, how long does it take the car to travel 26 miles?
0.4 of an hour or 2/5 or 24 minutes
What is the decimal form of -5/8
-0.625
If Kayla's shed is 3ft wide by 10ft long by 5ft tall, and the paint she will use will cover 50 square feet, per can, how many cans of paint will she need to paint the front and the back?
2 cans (because 10 x 5 x 2 = 100 and 100/50=)
If a snail can move 3/10 of a meter every 1/12 hour, how many minutes will it take the snail to complete 3/10 of a meter?
5 minutes
If y represents the distance that a spider moves in x minutes, then the point (4, 5) tells us that the snail can move?
the snail can move 5 feet in 4 minutes
A motorcycle traveling 40 miles per hour, how far do you travel in 4 hours and 12 minutes?
180 miles
Do not solve.
Is the solution positive or negative?
-8.7 + c = -1.4
positive because -8.7 + 7.3 = -1.4
Which of these is equivalent to 5/16?
a) 0.1666666...
b) 0.2875
c) 0.3125
d) 3.2
c=0.3125
If a dog can eat 1/3 of a bag of dog food in half a week, how many bags of food can the dog eat in 1 week?
2/3
If 4.5 pounds of blueberries sell for $27, what is the cost for 1 pound of blueberries?
$6
Angela's flight took her to 2 cities that are 2,898 miles apart. The journey lasted 6 hours. How fast was the plane traveling for an average speed?
483 mph
What is the solution for the following equation?
-7.7 - d = -1.4
d= 6.3
Figure B is a scaled copy of figure A. Which statement must be true?
a. Figure B is larger than figure A.
b. Figures B and A have the same angle measures.
c. Figures B and A have the same perimeter
d. Figure A is smaller than figure B.
b
On a flight from New York to London, an airplane travels at a constant speed. Here is the equation
t = 1/500 d
How long will it take the airplane to travel 800 miles?
1.6 hours
1 3/5 hours
The origami club is doing a car wash to raise money for a trip. They charge the same price for every car. After washing 11 cars they raised $93.50
How much would they raise after washing 23 cars?
$195.50
Clarise bought a jacket on sale for 20% off. The jacket originally costs $48. How much did Clarise save by buying the jacket on sale?
$9.60
What is the solution:
1/2 - (-9)=
9 1/2 or 9.5
The area of a desert is 25,000 square miles. A scale drawing of the desert has an area of 10 square inches.
What is the scale of the map? (1 in=? miles
2500
A shrimp is fed 1/5 of a gram of food each feeding and is fed 3 times each day. H
How much food does the shrimp get fed in 30 days?
18 grams
If a recipe for stew calls for 3 carrots for every 2 potatoes and you make a larger amount of stew , and you use 450 carrots, how many potatoes will you need?
300 potatoes
Alex bought a car for $9,000. The sales tax rate on the car is 4%. How much did Alex pay for the car including the tax?
$9,360
What is the answer:
(-1) x (-2) x (-3)=
-6