W
C
D
G
E
100
#2a You need to buy grass seed for a new lawn. The lawn will cover a rectangular plot that is 60 ft by 90 ft. Each ounce of grass seed will cover 120 square feet. How many ounces of grass seed will you need to buy?
45 ounces
100
#1 Your average reading speed is 160 words per minute. There are approximately 800 words on each page of the textbook you need to read. Approximately how long will is take you to read 50 pages of your textbook?
250 minutes (4 hours 10 minutes)
100
#3a Translate each statement into an equation. The total weekly earnings equal $12 per hour times the number of hours worked.
t = 12h
100
#3b Translate each statement into an equation. The total time traveled equals the distance traveled divided by the average speed.
t = d/s
100
#3c Translate the following statement into an equation. The distance between two cities, measured in feet, is equal to the distance measured in miles times 5280 feet per mile.
d = 5280m
200
#2b If the grass seed you want only comes in one-pound bags, how many bags will you need to buy?
2.81 pounds, so 3 bags
200
#5 What will the temperature be in degrees Farenheit when it is 40 degrees Celsius outside? F = (9C/5) + 32
104 degrees
200
#4a If you make $12 per hour, what will your earnings be in a week when you work 35 hours?
$420
200
#4d The distance between Dallas and Houston is 244 miles. How far is the distance in feet? (1 mile = 5280 feet)
1,288,320 ft
200
#4b If you earned $336 last week (assuming you make $12 per hour), how many hours did you work?
28 hours
300
#4c If you travel 480 miles at an average speed of 40 miles per hour, for how many hours were you traveling?
12 hours
300
#6b 3/5 = n/765
459
300
#7 You correctly answered two-thirds of the questions on your history exam. There were 75 questions on the exam. How many questions did you answer correctly?
50
300
#10 Your car averages 380 miles on a 14-gallon tank of gas. You run out of gas on a deserted highway, but have 1/2 gallon of lawn mower gas with you. Will you be able to reach the nearest gas station 15 miles away?
No, you can only go 13.57 miles
300
#6a 3 out of 5 = ____ out of 20
12
400
#8 During a recent infestation by beetles, 2/3 of the ash trees in a local park were destroyed. If 120 trees were destroyed, how many ash trees were originally in the park?
180
400
#6c 3/5 = 27/n
45
400
#14 You are traveling at 75 miles per hour on a straight stretch of highway in Nevada. It is noon now. When will you arrive at the next town 120 miles away?
1:36 (1.6 hours)
400
#11 As part of your job as a quality-control inspector in a factory you can check 16 parts in 3 minutes. How long will it take you to check 80 parts?
15 minutes
400
#6d 3/5 = 1134/n
1890
500
#13 You currently earn $11.50 per hour. Assuming that you work 40-hour weeks with no raises, what total gross salary will you earn in the next five years?
$119, 600
500
#9 Your high school freshman class consists of 760 students. In recent years, only 4 out of 7 students actually graduated in four years. Approximately how many of your classmates are expected to graduate in four years?
434 students
500
#15 To estimate the size of the grizzle bear population in a national park, rangers tagged and released 12 grizzly bears into the park. A few months later, 2 out of 21 grizzly bears sighted wear tagged. Assuming the proportion of tagged bears in the population, estimate the number of grizzly bears in the population of this national park.
126 grizzly bears
500
#12 You car averages about 27 miles per gallon on highways. With gasoline prices at $2.599 per gallon, how much will you expect to spend on gasoline during your 500-mile trip?
$48.13
500
What do the letters in WEDGE help us remember?
Take the words and put them into a chart; draw a picture; make a graph or write an equation to solve the problem.
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