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5) A city utility department charges residential
1) Mr. Dietz is a teacher whose salary is $22,570 for
customers $2.50 per 1,000 gallons of water and
this school year, which has 185 days. In Mr. Dietz’s
$16.00 per month for trash pickup. Which of the
school district, substitute teachers are paid $80 per day.
following expressions gives a residential customer’s
If Mr. Dietz takes a day off without pay a substitute
total monthly charges, in dollars, for use of g
teacher is paid to teach Mr. Dietz’s classes, how much
thousand gallons of water and trash pickup?
less does the school district pay in salary by paying a
substitute teacher instead of paying Mr. Dietz for that
day?
A. $42
B. $80
C. $97
D. $105
E. $122
2)
A.
B.
C.
D.
E)
If 12 vases cost $18.00, what is the cost of 1 vase?
$0.67
$1.05
$1.33
$1.50
$1.60
3) Nick needs to order 500 pens from his supplier. The
catalog shows that these pens come in cases of 24 boxes
with 10 pens in each box. Nick may NOT order partial
cases. What is the fewest number of cases he should
order?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 18
D) 21
E) 50
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
2.50g + 16.00
2.50g + 1,016.00
16.00g + 2.50
18.50g
2,500.00g + 16.00
6) A tank currently holds 5,000 gallons of milk.
Each gallon of milk weighs about 8 pounds. About
many pounds does this milk weigh?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
625
4,000
4,992
5,008
40,000
7) The cost of a gym membership is a onetime fee
of $140, plus a monthly fee of $40. Brendan wrote
a $500 check to pay his gym membership for a
certain number of months, including the onetime
fee. How many months of membership did he pay
for?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 9
4) Company A sells 60 pens for $15.00, while
company B sells the same type of pens 40 for $8.00.
Which company’s price per pen is cheaper, and
what is that price?
A) Company A, at $0.20
B) Company A, at $0.23
C) Company A, at $0.25
D) Company B, at $0.20
E) Company B, at $0.25
D) 12
E) 13
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8) The minimum fine for driving in excess of the
speed limit is $25. An additional $6 is added to the
minimum fine for each mile per hour (mph) in
excess of the speed limit. Rachel was issued a $103
fine for speeding in a 55 mph speed limit zone. For
driving at what speed, in mph, was Rachel fined?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
48
52
62
68
78
9) Which of the following numbers has the digit 5
in the thousandths place?
A) 5,000.00
B) 50.0
C) 0.05
D) 0.005
E) 0.0005
10) One foot is approximately 0.3048 meters. If a
building is 65-feet long, what is the length of the
building, in meters, to the nearest tenth?
A) 19.8
B) 31.1
C) 65.3
D) 198.1
E) 213.3