PreAlgebra Calendar for the Week 3/14/16-3/18/16
Monday 3/14/16
HAPPY PI DAY!!
1. The heights of several types of
palm trees, in feet, are 40, 25, 15, 22,
50, and 30. The heights of several
types of pine trees, in feet, are 60,
75, 45, 80, 75, and 70. Compare and
contrast the measures of variation of
both kinds of trees.
2. Solve:
(−1)(2 − 6)2 ÷ 8 + 8 − 3⋅ 4
3. Given w = –1, x = 6, y = 3,
and z = –2; evaluate the following:
a. 4w + 2y
b. x − 3(−z)
HW # 90 WORKSHEET A
Tuesday 3/15/16
1. Create a box-and-whisker plot
for the following set of data.
20, 15, 45, 33, 19, 30, 31, 32, 31,
30, 27, 34, 50, 22, 29, 30
2.
a. 40% of what number is
80
b. 65 is 30% of what
number?
3. A list of five test scores were: 60,
67, 73, 63 and 67. Find the
following:
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
HW # 91 WORKSHEET B
Wednesday 3/16/16
1. Larry recorded the number of students he saw
each day wearing purple. His data is shown
below. Use the data to answer parts A & B.
25 29 34 38 48 50 54 58 62 66
Part A: What is the lower quartile of the data?
2. A dodecahedron has twelve sides
numbered 1 through 12. Find the
probability of each event.
a. Rolling a number less than 9
b. Rolling a multiple of 3
c. Rolling a number greater than 6
HW # 92 Finish Review Sheet and Study for Test
Thursday 3/17/16
TEST: STATISTICS #1
Friday 3/18/16
1. Solve and graph the
solution.
a. -2x + 3 > 23
2. The number of students in the
marching band increased from
100 to 125. What is the percent
increase?
b. b – 2 ≤ -20
HW #93 Page 454 #1, 5, 6 Page 457 #17, 18
3. You have a gift card worth
$90. You want to buy several
movie tickets that cost $12 each.
Write and solve and inequality
that represents the number of
movies you can buy and still
have at least $30 on the gift
card.