Percents
A store is selling a couch for $280 and offering a 35% discount. What is the price of the couch after the discount?
$182
A square has a perimeter of 16x -12. What is the length of each side?
4x-3
Visually (without calculating unit rates), what are the three characteristics of a proportional graph?
Johanna has $99.19 to spend at athletics store. She purchases a tennis ball for $5.50, a tennis racket for $15.75, and 6 tennis shirts. Each of the tennis shirts cost the same price. Determine the price of one tennis shirt.
$12.99 for a tennis shirt
Ms. Weiss has a maximum of $25 to spend at the store. She buys a drink for $3.50 and apples for $1.25 each. Write and solve an inequality to model the maximum number of apples, a, she can buy.
3.50 + 1.25a < 25
She can buy a maximum of 17 apples
A book originally costs $16.99. It is currently on sale for $12. What is the percent discount in the price rounded to the nearest percent?
29% discount
The width of a rectangle is 10.5 feet. The length is 1 1/2 times the width. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
52.5 feet
What is the CoP of the point (3, 1/5) which is located on the graph of a proportional relationship?
1/15 OR 0.06 (6 repeating)
Taxi A charges a $30 flat fee and $1.20 per mile. Taxi B charges a $20 flat fee and $2.00 per mile. If you’re travelling 15 miles, which Taxi is the better deal, and by how much?
Taxi A is the better deal by $2
The dimensions of a door on a scale drawing are 3 cm in width and 8 cm in height. If the height of the actual door is 18.8 meters, what is the width of the actual door?
7.05 meters (SF was 2.35)
Between 10 am and 11 am, 340 purchased early admission tickets to see the 7 pm Avengers Endgame at a theater. That evening, at the time of the 7 pm show, 45% more people bought tickets at the theater than those who bought them in advance. How many total tickets were sold for the movie?
833 tickets
An isosceles triangle has two equal side lengths of 1/3(x - 2) inches and a third side length of x -1/2 inches. What is the perimeter of the triangle if x=5?
6.5 inches
The relationship between pounds of candy and dollars spent is proportional. If you buy 5 pounds of candy for $12.50, how much candy could you buy for $60?
24 pounds
There are four men sitting by the shore. Samuel is 2.5 times older than Mikey. Kristopher is 3.5 times older than Mikey. Vox is 88 years old. The sum of all four ages is 244. How old is Mikey?
Mikey is 26 years old
Ms. Weiss is located on a mountain at 325.8 feet above ground level. Ms. Barreau is descending the steps of her basement which start at ground level and then move under ground. She is currently 48 inches below ground. What is the distance between Ms. Weiss and Ms. Barreau?
329.8 feet OR 3,957.6 inches
Ms. Weiss paid $4.80 in tax for a dress that costs $60. At this rate, how much would she pay in sales tax for an item that costs $42 before tax?
$3.36
A rectangle has a length of 8 feet and a width of 6 feet. A circle has a circumference of 8pi. How many times larger is the area of the circle than that of the rectangle? Use 3.14 for pi.
1.046(6 repeating) times larger
In the morning, a farm worker picked 5 bunches of grapes in 3 minutes. In the afternoon, she picked 8 bunches of grapes in 5 minutes. What was the difference in her morning and afternoon picking rates in bunches per hour?
4 bunches of grapes
Two friends went out to eat. They had 2 Cheeseburgers $6.50 each, 2 fries $4.25 each, 2 iced teas $1.50 each, and 1 plate of fried calamari. After an 8% tax was applied to the bill, the total came out to be $35.10. How much was the plate of fried calamari?
Fried calamari costs $8
A group of seven students scored an average of 85 on their assessments: 87, 90, 82, 86, 75, 86, x. Find the value of x.
x = 89
A new table costs $300. It is currently discounted for 1/4 off the price. If you are loyal customer, you get and extra 15% off the price. There is a sales tax of 7.5%. How much do you pay for the table if you are a loyal customer? Round to the nearest cent.
$205.59
A fence around a pool is 81.64 feet long. The fence is separated from the circle pool by 5 feet all the way around. What is the area of the pool? Use 3.14 for pi.
200.96 square feet
The price of a bottle of apple juice that has 3.5 cups in it is $2.50. The price of a gallon of apple juice that has 128 ounces in it is $8. Which is the better deal and by how much? (There are 16 ounces in a cup). Round to the nearest cent.
Bottle, by $0.02
Obei makes $600 a week plus 5% commission on his sales. Chelsea makes $500 a week plus 8% commission on her sales. Obei had $1600 in sales this week. If Obei and Chelsea made $1500 in total (salary and commission), how much did Chelsea have in sales this week?
Chelsea had $4,000 in sales
Mr. Melton is tracking his sales at the school store during lunch. On Wednesday he sold 15 bags of hot Cheetos. On Thursday, he sold 25% of the remaining number of hot Cheetos bags. If he sold 40 bags on Thursday, how many bags did he start with?
Mr. Melton started with 175 Hot Cheetos bags