Data Analysis 6.

A bike messenger is paid $5 per delivery

and can on average deliver one package
Guided Practice - Ratios & Proportions every 15 minutes. If she worked five hours
on Thursday and four hours on Friday,
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how much money did she earn in those
Multiple Choice — Calculator two days if her rate of delivery was equal
to the average?
1. If y = kx, where k is a constant, and y = 42 A) $36
when x= 7. what is y when x = 9? B) $300
A) 49 C) $180
D) $144
B) 54 7. The next two questions refer to the
following information. In a sales position,
C) 63
the salesperson's earnings are in direct
D) 72 proportion to the number of items sold. If
the salesperson sells 40 items, he earns
2. A bakery sells cupcakes for $2.75 each, or
$1,500. 7 How much will the salesperson
a dozen for $21. How much cheaper is the
earn if he sells 180 items?
unit price of the cupcakes sold by the
A) $5,200
dozen than one sold individually?
B) $5,850
A) $0.75
C) $6,275
B) $1.00
D) $6,750
C) $1.75
8. The salesperson uses 67% of his earnings
D) $4.89
for living expenses. The remainder is
3. Comparing the growth of two dogs, Dora
placed in a savings account. How much
notices that Rover has gained 30% more
will the salesperson place in the savings
weight than Spot. When Dora first
account after selling 40 items?
observed both dogs, they both weighed 20
A) $495
kg and Rover now weighs 46 kg. I low
B) $1,005
much does Spot weigh now?
C) $1,320
A) 35.4 kg
D) $2,680
B) 40.0 kg
9. On Wednesday of Spirit Week, a survey
C) 53.8 kg
was done of the juniors wearing the school
D) 59.8 kg
colors. Out of 650 students, 48% were
4. A rectangle is 20 meters long and 20
wearing the school colors. How many
meters wide. If the length is increased by
juniors were not wearing the school colors
10% and the width is decreased by 10%,
that day?
what is the new area?
A) 312
A) 320
B) 338
B) 396
C) 360
C) 400
D) 384
D) 484
10. The spacecraft New Horizons took 9.5
5. A rectangle is 50 feet long and 40 feet
years to travel from Earth to Pluto, a
wide. The length is decreased by 20% and
distance of 4.67k 10' miles. What was the
the width is increased by 20%. What is the
approximate average speed for the trip in
percent decrease in the area, rounded to
miles per hour?
the nearest percent?
A) 0% A) 3.23 x 107
B) 1%
B) 1.35 x 106
C) 4%
D) 10% C) 5.61 x 104
 D) 2.24 x 104 B) 1,225
C) 1,550
11. The atomic weight of the element mercury,
D) 1,725
in atomic mass units (amu), is
16. I furlong = 660 feet 1 mile = 5,280 feet A
approximately 200 emu. The atomic
wheat farmer drives his tractor 3 miles in
weight of cerium is approximately 30%
one morning. I low many furlongs did he
less than that of mercury. Which of the
drive?
following best approximates the atomic
weight. in amu, of cerium? A) 27
A) 60 amu
B) 24
B) 140 amu
C) 194 amu C) I8
D) 158 amu
12. A high school senior reviewed 25% more D) 15
pages in her science textbook on Thursday 17. 1 acre = 43,560 square feet I square yard =
than on Wednesday. If the total number of 9 square feet A real estate developer
pages she reviewed on Thursday was 40. bought 3.5 acres of land. For development
how many pages did she review on purposes, he divides the land into square
Wednesday? yards on a topographical map. How many
A) 15 square yards did he buy?
B) 32 A) 1,372,140
C) 50 B) 112,011
D) 65 C) 16,940
13. A smartphone that regularly costs $600 is D) 1.383
on sale for 40% off. A customer used a 18. 14 pounds = T stone
coupon for an additional discount on the 1 pound = 16 ounces
marked sale price at checkout. If the final A British doctor calculates the average
price of the smartphone is $252, what weight of an adult male as 11.9 stone.
additional discount was applied to the sale What is the average weight of an adult
price? male, in ounces?
A) 5% A) 2,665.6
B) 18% B) 2,332.4
C) 30% C) 41.9
D) 43% D) 13.6
14. The density of an object is equal to the 19. When Ms. Martinez negotiated her annual
mass of the object divided by the volume salary 10 years ago, it was agreed that she
of the object. Aluminum has a density of would receive a raise every year of 5% of
2.7 grams per cubic centimeter. What is her starting salary. Her annual salary this
the mass, in grams, of a sample of year is $72,000. What was her first year's
aluminum with a volume of 8 cubic salary?
centimeters?
A) 0.3375 A) $22,000
B) 2.96 0) $43,100
C) 10.7
D) 21.6 C) $44,200
15. A quality assurance analyst chooses 7 of D) $48,000
every 200 widgets manufactured to inspect
for quality of the manufacturing process. 20. 1 ounce = 28.35 grams
To ensure the same percentage of widgets I pound = 16 ounces
checked, how many widgets should the A jeweler is buying gold at 20% below the
analyst inspect from 35,000 produced? current market value of $40 per grain.
A) 775
 Approximately how much will he pay for a 24. A car is moving at a speed of 30 miles per
gold necklace that weighs 0.1 pounds? hour. Which expression has a value equal
A) $54.4 to the car's speed, in feet per minute?
B) $363 (Note: There are 5,280 feet in I mile.)
C) $1,451 A) 30 x 5,280
D) $1,814 60
21. Last year, a driving instructor taught 300 B) 60 x 5,280
students, 240 of which passed their driving 30
test on the first try. This year, the C) 30 x 60
instructor taught 240 students, 144 of 5.280
which passed their driving test on the first D) 60
try. Which of the following best 30 x 5,280
approximates the percentage of all of the 25. In a certain high school, the ratio of boys 3
instructor's students in the past two years to the entire student population is —. If
who passed their driving test on the first there are 1,200 girls in the school, how
try? many boys are there?
A) 60%
A) 300
B) 70%
C) 71% B) 400
D) 80%
C) 900
D) 1,100
26. The average car contains approximately
330 pounds of aluminum and 2,400
pounds of steel. If a car manufacturer uses
200 tons of aluminum in one day,
approximately how many pounds of steel
does it use? A) 57,000
B) 850,000
C) 3,000,000
D) 1,000,000,000
27. A car factory manufactures 10 cars every
12 minutes. Assuming the factory never
closes, how many cars can it make in 12
hours?
A) 10
B) 100
C) 600
D) 7,200
28. An architect is designing a gallery space
for an artist using the Golden Ratio. He
wants the ratio of the length to the height
23. Light can travel approximately 300
of the feature wall to equal 1.618. If the
million meters in one second. What is that
wall is 13 feet high, approximately how
speed, in kilometers per minute?
long will the wall be?
A) 5 x 103 A) 8
B) 11
B) 1.8x107
C) 15
C) 5x109 D) 21

D) 1.8x1013
29. Madden filled her car's gas tank to the top Student Produced Response —
and then drove her car at a constant spend Calculator
along a highway for one hour, using 16%
of the gas in the tank. If her gas tank is 1. A woman is jogging at a rate of 2 meters
depleted at a constant rate, approximately per second. What is the woman's speed,
how many more hours will she be able to rounded to the nearest integer, in feet per
drive? minute?
A) 5.25 2. Joni Construction is planning to pave over
B) 6.25 a park to build a parking lot. On the
C) I5 blueprint, the park takes up 120 in'. The
D) 16 scale on the map shows that I in = 10
30. Between 1970 and 2006, carbon monoxide meters. They are planning on using one
emissions in the United States fell from ton of concrete to build every 200 m? Of
197 million tons to 89 million tons, while the parking lot floor. Approximately how
sulfur dioxide emissions fell from 31 many tons of concrete will be needed to
million tons to 15 million tons. Which had cover the entire park?
the greater percent decrease? 3. Susan took 8 math tests over the course of
A) carbon monoxide emissions. because one semester. Her average score on the
its 54.8% decrease is greater than a 51.6% first 3 tests was 84. Her average score on
decrease her last 5 tests was 92. What was the
B) carbon monoxide emissions, because its overall average of all 8 tests?
48.4% decrease is greater than a 45.2% 4. The highest grossing film released in 2015
decrease earned $935.8 million in tickle sales,
C) sulfur dioxide emissions, because its which was 8.4% of the total amount
54.8% decrease is weather than a 51.6% earned in ticket sales by all films released
decrease that year. What was the total amount of
D) sulfur dioxide emissions, because its money earned by all films, in billions of
48.4% decrease is greater than a 45.2% dollars, rounded to the nearest tenth of a
decrease billion?
31. In 2011, the total world strawberry
production in tons was 4,594,539, of
which 1,312,960 tons were produced in the
United States. What percent of the world's
strawberries in 2011 were produced in
places outside the United States?
A) 3.5
B) 28.6
C) 49.9
D) 71.4