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100
the dependent variable in w = 17t - 50?
What is w?
100
The equation of the line that passes through (-3,-1), (6,5), and (15,11).
What is y = (2/3)x + 1?
100
This is how the graph of y = x squared + 6 can be obtained from the graph of y = x squared - 8.
What is move the graph of y = x squared - 8 up 14.
100
Two rectangles are similar. Their lengths are 6 inches and 10 inches. The area of the smaller rectangle is 24 square inches. This is the area of the larger rectangle to the nearest tenth of a square inch.
What is 66.7 squared inches?
100
Texas Stadium has 63,855 seats. This is the number of people in the stadium if it is 85 percent filled. Round your answer to the nearest thousand.
What is 55,000 people?
200
Miguel is having shirts printed for everyone who attends a family reunion. There is a fixed cost of $25 for the design plus $8 per shirt. This is the equation that describes the cost c of printing n shirts.
What is c = 8n + 25?
200
The equation of the graph of y = 5x - 4 after you increase the y-intercept by 6 but leave the slope unchanged.
What is y = 5x + 2?
200
The area of a triangle with a height of 12x and a base of 2x squared, in terms of x.
What is 12x cubed?
200
The value of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with leg lenghts of 5 and 12.
What is 13?
200
A mousepad is regularly priced at $15.99. This is the percent of discount if it is on sale for $12.79. Round your answer to the nearest percent.
What is 20 percent?
300
Ian sells t-shirts and cowboy hats at the Texas State Fair. T-shirts cost $12 and hats cost $15. If Ian sells more than $500 in merchandise, he will win a coupon good for a one-day free admission to the amusement park. This is the inequality that represents this situation where t is the number of t-shirts sold and h represents the number of hats sold.
What is 12t + 15h >500?
300
The solution of -8 < 3 - 2(x + 6).
What is x < -1/2?
300
The definition of similar figures.
What are figures that have corresponding angles equal and corresponding sides proportional?
300
The surface area of a cylinder with a radius of 2 feet and a height of 8 feet, in terms of Pi and as a decimal.
What are 40Pi ft squared and 125.66 ft squared?
300
Venice tosses two dice. This is the probability that he tosses a sum of 8.
What is 5/36?
400
a description of the graph of y = x squared + 6.
What is a parabola that open up and has a vertex at (0,6)?
400
Ledd Corporation produces a CD-RW drive at a cost of $120 each with fixed costs of $36,000. The CD-RW sells for $180. This is the number of drives Ledd Corporation must sell to break even (cover their expenses).
What is 600 drives?
400
The half-life of a radioactive substance is the length of time it takes for half of it to change to a different substance. If the half-life of a substance is 6 hours, this is how much of a 100-gram sample will be left after 24 hours.
What is 6.25 grams?
400
The volume of a square pyramid with a base length of 4 feet and a height of 6 feet.
What is 32 ft cubed?
400
Chester has a rectangular corral that is 300 feet long and 100 feet wide. He needs to buy fence to enclose it. If an 8-foot section of fence costs $29.95, this is the number of sections Chester will need to buy.
What is 100?
500
The expression that represents the area of a rectangle that has length 5x - 2 and width 3x + 1. Express answer as a trinomial
What is 15x squared - x - 2?
500
Roy is twice as old as Gene. In 15 years Roy will be 9 years older than Gene will be. This is how old Roy is now.
What is 18 years old?
500
A(1,0), B(2,3), and C(4,1) are the vertices of triangle ABC. Suppose triangle ABC is reflected over the x-axis and that the image is translated 2 units down. These are the new coordinates of image point A.
What is (1,-2)?
500
A dance floor is made of hexagonal tiles. If the sides of each tile are 8 inches, what is the area of each tile.
96 times square root of 3
500
This is a reasonable conjecture for the next number in the pattern 2,3,6,4,5,20,6,7,42,8,9,...
What is 72?