Linear equation word problems
Kim and Cyndi are starting a business tutoring students in math. They rent an office for $400 per month and charge $40 per hour per student. If they have 15 students each for one hour per week how much profit do they make together in a month? (assume 4 weeks per month)
What is $4,000?
Yasemin is using a sugar cookie recipe with a flour to sugar ratio of 11:6. To make one batch of cookies, 2.75 cups of flour are needed. If Yasemin would like to triple the recipe, which of the following best approximates how much sugar she will need?
What is 4.5 cups?
The author wants to use irony in order to communicate disapproval of the bad weather. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
According to the weather station, we should expect rain, hail, and an assortment of small pets to descend from the sky later this afternoon. Well, isn’t that just a lovely forecast.
No change
rocky
fragile
unpromising
What is no change?
Henrietta's flock of backyard chickens produced more eggs than her neighborhood.
No change
The rest of the neighborhood's chickens
Her suburb
Her friend, Sean.
What is the rest of the neighborhood's chickens?
Glenna wants to rent a car for a trip to Key West for one week. She calls two car rental companies to get prices. Mr. Kotter’s Rentals rents a Cadillac Escalade for $99 for one week plus $0.11 per mile over 100 miles. Barbarino’s Rentals has the same vehicle for $75 per week and $0.15 per mile over 150 miles. If it is 432 miles to Key West, which company has the better deal? How many miles would Glenna drive before she would be spending the same amount at either company?
What is Barbarino’s. Glenna would have to drive 887.5 miles to have both deals be the same.
A gumball machine contains 23 green gumballs, 52 red gumballs,34 blue gumballs, 61 yellow gumballs, and 30 pink gumballs. What percentage of the gumballs are red?
What is 26%?
For the sake of rhetorical effect, the writer wants to maintain the pattern of repeating words derived from the same root. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
Attain the unattainable, conquer the unconquerable, clasp the unreachable.
No change
grasp what is out of reach
reach what cant be grasped
reach the unreachable
What is reach the unreachable?
According to some scholars, T. S. Eliot's later poems are more powerful and incisive than his early career as a writer.
What is those written at the beginning of his career?
John is starting a roofing business. He will need to buy a truck and some supplies to get his business going. The truck costs $13000 used. He gets three jobs right away. And hires 2 workers to help him. The materials for all three jobs cost $3000. The jobs will each take a week not including Saturday and Sunday and he pays his workers $125 per day per worker. How much will he have to charge for each job in order to break even at the end of the third job?
What is $6583.33?
When a grizzly bear hibernates, its heart rate drops to 10 beats per minute, which is 20% of its normal value. What is a grizzly bear's normal heart rate when not hibernating?
What is 50 beats per minute?
Which choice best maintains the intent and pattern of the sentence?
You must be brave without foolhardiness, strong without violence, decisive with arrogance.
No change
decisive without arrogance
arrogant with decisiveness
arrogant without decisiveness
What is decisive without arrogance?
The foreign investors acquired the land for passive investment rather than a park.
What is for development ?
Cellular phone companies often package their products to make them more attractive to potential users. If you average 356 minutes per month in talk time, which package is the better deal.
Package A includes a free phone and 300 minutes. It will cost 0.12 per minute for each minute over the plan time. Package A has a base rate of $39.95.
Package B has a phone that costs $10 and has 350 minutes of time and 0.08 per minute for each minute over the plan time. Package B has a base rate of $35.95 not including the phone.
What is Package B?
Esmerelda bought a bag of jelly beans. There were 24 green jelly beans, which made up 8% of all the jelly beans in the bag. How many jelly beans were in the bag?
What is 300 jelly beans?
Which choice most effectively maintains the stylistic pattern established earlier in the paragraph?
We shall wander the cobbled streets of Paris under the glittery moon. We shall swim the length of the Nile with the hippos and crocodiles. At sunrise, we shall scale Mount Fuji and pretend we are alone in the world.
What is we shall scale Mount Fuji at sunrise and pretend we are alone in the world?
Nutritionists disagree over whether sugar or eating artificial sweetener is worse.
What is artificial sweetener?
Many counties in Florida missed many school days in the fall of 2004 due to hurricanes that year. A solution for how to make up those days was to add time to each school day for a portion of the year. It was decided that in order to make up a 6 hour school day, 10 minutes would be added to each day. How many extended days would be needed to make up 3 school days?
What is 108 days?
Of the 50 U.S. states, 4 have names that start with the letter W. What percentage of U.S. states have names that start with the letter W?
What is 8%?
In order to capture the attention of his audience, the author wants to invest the pie with human qualities. Which choice best accomplishes this goal?
The blackberry pie was exquisite: the flavors danced on Leila’s tongue.
What is no change?
As with humans, similar traits in monkeys spend more time with each other.
What is monkeys with similar traits?