An octagonal lamp has 8 square glass sides.The total area of the glass used for the lamp is given by the formula g = 8x2, where g is the area of the glass and x is the length of one side of the squares.
If the squares have sides whose length is 6 inches, what is the total area (in square inches) of the glass used to make the lamp?
The community theater put on a play on Friday and Saturday evenings. There were 68 tickets sold for the Friday performance and 82 for the Saturday performance. All ticket prices were the same, and the total amount raised from ticket sales was $1200.
What was the total amount, in dollars, of the ticket sales for Friday’s performance?
What point represents the center of the circle that circumscribes the rectangle?
City Commuter Airplane Service is considering the purchase of another airplane for its fleet. The cruising speeds of the two choices are shown in the graph below.
In miles, how much FARTHER can plane A travel in 3 hours than plane B can travel in the same amount of time?
Petra earns $75 per week while working at a pizza parlor on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday evenings.
If Petra receives a promised raise of $0.50 per hour, how much will she then earn per week?
What is the length, in inches, of the diagonal brace?
Juan is taking a computer software class to improve his job skills. His employer will pay for the course if Juan’s average test grade in the class is 90% or higher. On the first three tests, Juan’s grades were 86%, 88%, and 95%.
What is the minimum grade Juan must earn on his fourth and final test so that his employer will pay for the class?
Marion County’s total population of 184,026, the number of people employed (including self employed) is 122,939. The number of people employed is broken down by age group in the graph below.
What is the DIFFERENCE, to the nearest thousand, between the number of employed people in Marion County in the 25-to-34 age group and the 55-and-over age group?
Marion works Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at the Fairfield Family Restaurant. After she received a 5% raise, her take-home pay was $120.
What was Marion’s hourly wage before she received her raise?
Adora’s car averages 28 miles per gallon of gas. Approximately how many gallons of gas should she expect to use for a trip of 190 miles?
How much MORE would it cost to rent 6 videos per month under Plan D than to rent 6 videos per month under Plan C?
The slopes of the lines give the average growth rates of the plants, in centimeters per week, using the two fertilizers.
What is the average growth rate, in centimeters per week, using fertilizer A?
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A rectangular photograph has a length of 10 inches and a width of 6 inches. What is the area, in square inches, of the photograph?
Marion County’s total population of 184,026, the number of people employed (including self employed) is 122,939. The number of people employed is broken down by age group in the graph below.
Which of the following is closest to the number of employed people aged 45 to 54 who live in Marion County?
If x = 7 and y = 3x + 2, what is the value of y?
In the diagram below, the angle whose measure is y° is an exterior angle of the triangle.
What is the value of y?
The seamstress made 2 complete outfits that include a blouse, skirt, and belt. How many yards of material were needed to make these outfits?
Biologists tagged trout and released them into a new man-made lake. The numbers of trout by gender and species are shown in the table below.
Later, biologists will net and inspect 50 of the tagged fish and re-release them into the lake.
If the netting captures fish randomly and all of the fish remain in the lake, approximately how many of the 50 fish are likely to be speckled trout?
How many MORE votes did Viaman receive than the other three candidates combined?
The ratio of VCR tapes to DVD disks available for rent at a local video store is 5.6 to 1. If there are 2436 VCR tapes, how many DVD disks are available?
In mechanical robotics, the linear movement of a robotic arm can be described by a translation of points. The diagram below shows the initial location of point A and its new location, A’, under the translation {3 left, 4 up}.
What is the location of point B’, the new location of point B under the same translation?
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The expression (3 × 102) + (2 × 103) equals which of the following numbers?
To raise funds for a charity drive, Danielle convinced 40 businesses to each pledge to donate $10 per month for 6 months.
Which expression equals the total number of dollars pledged for the charity drive?
Maggie purchased 10 drawing easels at $19.50 each and 20 boxes of crayons at $2.25 each for the pre-school she operates.
What was the total amount, in dollars, that Maggie paid for her purchases?
Harry estimates that he calls long distance for no more than 20 minutes per month. Using that estimate, from how many option plans can he choose and have a long-distance charge of $1.00 or less?
A 12-meter by 6-meter rectangular floor, shown in the diagram below, is to be covered by vinyl tile.
One box of vinyl tile covers an area of 2.25 square meters. What is the minimum number of boxes of vinyl tile needed to cover the floor?
In order to separate participants in a research study into groups, each will be given a card. The card will be one of 9 different colors, and each will contain one of 4 different shapes.
How many different cards are possible?
An art gallery has 27 paintings for sale, each at a different price. The median price of the paintings is $250.
How many of the paintings have a price higher than $300?
On Saturday mornings, Rosa exercises by riding her bicycle along a route from her home and back again. Her ride normally takes 1 hour and 40 minutes to complete.
If Rosa leaves home at 10:30 A.M. and rides for the usual amount of time, when will she arrive back home?
A storage room is 8 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 2 meters high. What is the volume of the storage room in cubic meters?
A new store offered its first 80 customers a chance to win a prize by selecting a ball from a container. Of the 80 balls in the container, 45% contained a number that would win the customer a prize.
How many of the first 80 customers won prizes?
If a seamstress were to make 8 blouses and 10 skirts without belts, which expression below equals the total amount of material, in yards, needed to complete the skirts and blouses?
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Boxes for shipping telephones can contain a maximum of 18 phones. What is the FEWEST number of boxes needed to ship an order for 110 phones?
A rectangular garden was separated into two equal areas by placing a fence along a diagonal of the rectangle, as shown in the diagram below.
What is the length (d), in feet, of the diagonal fence?
Maria treated Carla to breakfast at the local diner. Maria’s breakfast cost $5.99, and Carla’s cost $3.59. Maria left a $2.00 tip at the table and then paid for the two breakfasts at the register with a $20 bill.
How much change should Maria receive?
If n is a positive number, which of the fractions below has the GREATEST value?
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A police officer stopped Martin for driving 65 miles per hour, or 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit. The fine for speeding is $50.00 plus $10.00 for each mile per hour over the speed limit, up to 5, and then $15.00 for each mile per hour over that. Which expression below shows how much Martin was fined?
What was the amount of the bonus that Wanda used to open her savings account?
Over time, a leaky faucet can waste many gallons of water. If a faucet drips at a rate of 2 ounces per minute, how many gallons of water will be wasted in one week?(1 gallon = 128 ounces)
The cost (c) to produce x units of corn and the revenue (r) from selling x units of corn are represented by the following functions:
c = 100x + 6000
r = 500x
How many units of corn must be sold for revenue to equal production cost?
The number of games in a shipment must be a multiple of 25 and 40. What is the FEWEST number of games that could be in the shipment?
On the grid, what is the location of point D, the fourth vertex of the parallelogram?
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During which year did the height of the tree first exceed 3 meters?
A sales supervisor assigns Asha, Bella, Cameron, Donnell, and Ernesto to work the cash register on a rotating daily basis.The rotation begins with Asha on the first day and continues in alphabetical order, as shown in the pattern below, which uses their initials.
A, B, C, D, E, A, B, C, D, E, …
Who is assigned to work the cash register on the 46th day?