Ratios, Proportions, Percents
Money Word Problems
Order of Operations
Radical Mixed Bag
100
A recent mall survey showed that approx. 55% of the people surveyed prefer chocolate ice cream over vanilla. If 358 people were surveyed, which number best represents the number of people who responded to preferring chocolate?

A. 100
B. 150
C. 200
D. 250

What is C. 200
100
A certain car averages 28 miles per gallon. Gasoline costs $1.11 per gallon. Which of the following is closest to the number of miles the car would be expected to go on $250 worth of gasoline?

A. 400 miles
B. 6,000 miles
C. 12,000 miles
D. 30,000 miles

What is B. 6,000 miles
100
Tanya wants to evaluate the expression below using the order of operations:

1+4*8/(4-2) + 6

A. 5
B. 7
C. 21
D. 23

What is D. 23
100
What is the following expression closest to:

(sqrt(122))

A. sqrt(12)
B. 12
C. 12sqrt(12)
D. 144

What is B. 12
200
David found that 6 out of 20 of the students at his school had Nike shoes. If David's sample is representative, which of the following is closest to the number of the 1,900 students at David's school that has Nike shoes?

A. 30
B. 500
C. 570
D. 600

What is C. 570 students
200
Corey has a part-time job cleaning rooms at a hotel. He is paid $6.75 an hour. If it takes him approximately 22 minutes to clean one room, which of the following is closest to the amount he is being paid to clean one room?

A. $0.33
B. $1.00
C. $2.25
D. $3.00

What is C. $2.25.
200
What is the value of the expression shown below:

|3-5*2| - 4

A. -11
B. -8
C. 0
D. 3

What is D. 3
200
The following expression is closest to which number:

sqrt(75)

A. 8.5
B. 9.5
C. 10.5
D. 11.5

What is A. 8.5
300
The greater the percentage of gold in an object, the higher the number of karats. An 18-karat piece of jewelry contains 75% gold. Which of the following is closest to the number of karats in a piece of jewelry that contains 58% of gold?

A. 10 karats
B. 12 karats
C. 14 karats
D. 24 karats

What is C. 14 karats.
300
A company bought a truck priced at $50,000. If the truck loses $2400 in value each year, after how many years will it be worth exactly $30,800?

A. 8
B. 12
C. 13
D. 21

What is A. 8 years
300
What is the value of the expression below:

6(5-3) - 4(2+5-(3-2))

A. -15
B. -12
C. 4
D. 8

What is B. -12
300
2sqrt(5) is between:

A. 2 and 3
B. 4 and 6
C. 6 and 9

What is B. 4 and 6
400
A jet airplane travels 1200 miles in 2.5 hours. At this rate, how far will it travel in 3 hours?

A. 1000 miles
B. 1440 miles
C. 1800 miles
D. 3600 miles

What is B. 1440 miles.
400
Allison's car gets about 32 miles per gallon of gas. If gas prices range from $1.80 to $2.10 a gallon, which of the following is closest to the amount of money Alison will spend on gas for a 1200-mile road trip this summer?

A. $40
B. $55
C. $75
D. $240

What is C. $75
400
Which of the following numbers is closest to the value of the expression below:

(b3 + 5b2 - 2b) - (b3 + b - 1)

A. 5b2 - b
B. 5b2 - 3b + 1
C. 4b2 - b
D. 5b2 - 3b - 1

What is B. 5b2 - 3b + 1
400
What is the simplified form of the expression:

sqrt(675)

A. 15sqrt(3)
B. 45sqrt(3)
C. 75sqrt(3)
D. 225sqrt(3)

What is A. 15sqrt(3)
500
In a certain forest, there are approximately 3 aspen trees for every 2 spruce trees. Forest rangers estimate that the forest contains about 300,000 trees that are either aspen or spruce. Which of the following is closest to the number of spruce trees in the forest?

A. 60,000
B. 120,000
C. 180,000
D. 240,000

What is B. 120,000
500
William and Janine have a total of $25 to pay for dinner, including 20% for tax and tip. Janine ordered a meal that cost $8.95 before tax and tip. Which of the following is the highest-priced meal that William can order, before tax and tip, without spending more than a total of $25 for both meals?

A. $5.95
B. $7.95
C. $10.95
D. $12.95

What is C. $10.95
500
What is the value of the expression below:

-3|6-10| + 4

A. -16
B. -8
C. 12
D. 16

What is B. -8
500
What is the approximate value of the following expression:

(sqrt(7))6

A. 7
B. 7sqrt(7)
C. 49
D. 343

What is D. 343
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