Scale
On a road map, the scale is 1 cm = 25 miles. If the distance between two cities on the map is 6 cm, what is the actual distance between the two cities in miles?
x=150
An original triangle has a side length of 44 inches. Its scaled copy has a corresponding side length of 12 inches. What is the scale factor from the original triangle to the scaled copy?
3
Maya buys a new backpack for $45.00. If the sales tax rate in her city is 6%, how much will she pay in sales tax alone?
$2.70
You go to dinner with your family, and the total bill before tax and tip is $42.00. You want to leave a 15% tip. How much is the tip amount, and what is the total cost including the tip?
The tip is $6.30, and the total cost is $48.30
A video game has an original price of $50. It is on sale for a 20% discount. What is the sale price of the game?
$40.00
An architect makes a scale drawing of a house where 3 cm = 2 meters. If the actual length of the living room is 8 meters, how long should the living room be in the scale drawing?
x=12
A rectangle has a length of 10 cm. If you redraw the rectangle using a scale factor of 1/2, what will the new length be?
Marcus wants to buy a video game console that costs $280.00. The state sales tax is 7.5%. What is the total price Marcus will pay at checkout, including tax
$301.00
Your lunch bill is $25.00. A sales tax of 8% is added to the bill first. You then decide to leave an 18% tip on the post-tax total. What is the final total you pay?
$31.86
A store buys a skateboard from a manufacturer for a wholesale cost of $40. The store applies a 35% markup to set the retail price. What is the retail price of the skateboard?
$54.00
On a map, the scale is 1 inch = 15 miles. If two towns are 4.285 inches apart on the map, what is the actual distance between the two towns in miles rounded to the nearest hundredth?
64.28 miles
On a blueprint, a line segment is 3 cm long. The actual wall it represents is 6 meters long. What is the scale factor of the drawing written as a simplified fraction?
1/200
Elena goes back-to-school shopping. She buys three shirts for $18.00 each and two pairs of jeans for $35.00 each. If the clothing is subject to an 8.5% sales tax, what is her total bill?
$134.54
After adding a 20% tip to a dinner bill, the total came out to $60.00 (before tax). What was the price of the food before the tip was added?
Original bill $50.00
An electronics salesperson earns a weekly base salary of $250 plus a 6% commission on all of their total sales. If they sell $3,000 worth of electronics in one week, what is their total earnings for that week?
$430.00
A park architect makes a scale drawing of a rectangular garden. The drawing has a scale of 2 cm = 5 meters. If the actual garden has a length of 35 meters and a width of 20 meters what are the dimensions (length and width) of the garden on the scale drawing in centimeters?
14 cm long by 8 cm wide
A small garden is shaped like a rectangle with dimensions 3 meters by 5 meters. A landscaper makes an enlarged blueprint of the garden using a scale factor of 4. What is the perimeter of the enlarged garden on the blueprint?
64 meters
The Rodriguez family goes to a restaurant and orders food totaling $80.00. They have a coupon for 10% off their food bill. The restaurant charges a 5% sales tax on the discounted food bill, and the family wants to leave an 18% tip based on the original food price. What is the total amount they will pay?
$94
Four friends eat at a restaurant. The food total is $80.00. A 7% tax is applied to the food, and then a 15% tip is calculated based on the original food cost (before tax). If they split the final combined total evenly, how much does each person pay?
$24.40 per person
A jacket is sold for $84 after a 40% markup from the store’s wholesale cost. What was the original wholesale cost the store paid for the jacket?
The original cost was $60.00
On a blueprint for a backyard patio, a designer draws a rectangular pool that measures 10 cm by 6 cm. The scale used on the blueprint is 1 cm = 4 feet. What is the actual area of the pool in square feet?
960 sq ft
A square painting has an area of 16 square inches. An artist creates a larger version of this painting using a scale factor of 3. What is the area of the new, larger painting?
144 square inches
Chloe bought a new tablet. The final price she paid at the register, including an 8% sales tax, was $237.60. What was the original price of the tablet before tax was added?
$220.00
Mr. Davis leaves a $14.00 tip on a delivery order. He knows this tip was exactly 20% of the food cost after a store discount of 10% was already applied to the menu prices. What was the original menu price of the food before the 10% discount?
The original price was $77.78
Two stores are selling the same $150 bicycle. Store A offers a single 20% discount. Store B offers a 10% discount, and then takes an additional 10% off the new reduced price. Which store offers a lower final price, and what is that price?
$120 < $121.50, Store A!