Grade Seven Problems

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1)

Three ducks and two ducklings weigh 32 kg. Four ducks and three ducklings weigh
44kg. All ducks weigh the same and all ducklings weigh the same. What is the
weight of two ducks and one duckling?

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2)

It takes one man one day to dig a 2m x 2m x 2m hole. How long does it take 3 men
working at the same rate to dig a 4m x 4m x 4m hole?

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3)

A farmer grows 252 kilograms of apples. He sells them to a grocer who divides them
into 5 kilogram and 2 kilogram bags. If the grocer uses the same number of 5 kg
bags as 2kg bags, then how many bags did he use in all?

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4)

A 800 seat multiplex is divided into 3 theatres. There are 270 seats in Theatre 1, and
there are 150 more seats in Theatre 2 than in Theatre 3. How many seats are in
Theatre 2?

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5)

In 1969 the price of 5 kilograms of flour was $0.75. In 1970 the price was increased
15 percent. In 1971, the 1970 price was decreased by 5 percent. What was the price
of 5 kilograms of flour in 1971?

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6)

A rectangular sheet of wood has four small squares removed. It is then cut to make
a box that is 5cm by 4cm with a volume of 60cm3. (Four pieces of size A4 are
removed.)
 Find the original area of the sheet of wood.

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7)

Mary has $50.00. She goes to the mall and buys lipstick and then she buys shampoo,
which is half the price of the lipstick. She then spends half of what she has left on a
purse, leaving her with $15.00.

How much did the shampoo cost?

How much did the lipstick cost?

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8)

Stephanie had $40.00 savings. Her mother gave her another $30.00 and her
grandmother gave her $10.00 to buy a pair of cleats. The pair of cleats Stephanie
wants costs $54.99. If Stephanie buys the cleats at a no TAX sale, write an equation
using a variable to describe the amount of money that Stephanie will have to
contribute from her savings.

Solve for the variable.

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9)

Air is pumped into a vacuum sealed picture below room at a rate of 2 litres per
minute. How many seconds does it take to fill the room with air? Use the
information given to find the volume of the room.

a = 3dm 1 mL = 1 cm3
b = 3dm 1000 mL = 1L
c = 4dm 1000 cm2 = 1 dm = 1L
d = 5dm
e = (3a - 1)dm
f = (1/2b)dm
g = (3/8a + 3/8b)dm
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10)
 Given a rectangular prism...

if the sides of the rectangle A have the same ratio to each other as the sides of
rectangle B, then what is

 (a) The surface area of the prism?

 (b) The volume of the prism?

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11)

The trails in a park resemble the following diagram. Find the total length of the
trails, given that all the circles have the same area and circle 2 is tangent to the
midpoint of L.

r = 10m
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12)

The rent-a-stall horse barn has stalls for 1000 horses. Forty percent of the stalls are
for ponies. On Tuesday, there were 200 ponies and a bunch of quarter horses at the
horse barn. The horse barn was 75 percent full.

How many quarter horses were in the stalls?

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13)

A rectangular chalk board is 3 times as long as it is wide. If it were 3 metres shorter

and 3 metres wider, it would be square. What are the dimensions of the chalk
board?

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14)

Three people share a car for a period of one year and the mean number of
kilometers travelled by each person is 152 per month. How many kilometers will be
travelled in one year?

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15)

A car dealer claims that by buying a new car Mike will pay 1/5 less for gas then he
pays for the car he currently drives. If the car Mike currently drives costs 1/6 less to
gas up than Dave's car, and Dave pays $700.00 per year, what will it cost Mike to
 put gas in a new car for one year (assuming all cars will be travelling the same
distance)?

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16)

A side of the equilateral triangle A is twice the length of a side of triangle B.

How many triangle B will fit into triangle A?

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17)

A storage facility has space for 225 - 8 litre boxes and 515 - 27 litre boxes. What is
the volume of the facility? What percent of the total volume is filled by 150 of the 8
litre boxes and 5 of the 27 litre boxes?

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18)

Marvin's Taxi Service charges $0.30 for the first kilometre and $0.05 for each
additional km. If the cab fare was $3.20, how far did the Taxi go?

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19)

Shawn started his car (automatic shift), drove 8km and spent 2 minutes at a stop
light. Rachel (driving a manual shift) started her car and drove 9km with no stops.
Who used more gas?

Table of Gas Usage

Automatic Manual

IDLING .16 L/min .16 L/min

STARTING 0.05 L 0.05 L

MOVING 1L/22 km 1L/20 km

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20)

What fraction of this square is shaded?

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21)

The number of hours left in a day on Mars was 1/4 of the number of hours that had
already passed. How many hours were left in the day?

Day on Mars 40 hours.

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22)

A cereal company decided to increase the height of its boxes by 30 percent and
reduce the width in order to maintain the same volume.
 If initially, length = 20cm
height = 40cm
width = 30cm
What will the new height and width be if length stays the same?

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23)

The number of times a dog barks depends on the number of cars passing.

How many cars have passed when a dog barks 22 times? How many barks for 5
cars?

Cars Barks
------+-------
6 | 4
7 | 7
8 | 10
9 | 13
10 | 16
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24)
There are 360 degrees in a circle. If the population of various planets are
represented by a circle graph, match the percentage of the population of the solar
system that is found on each planet with an area on the graph.

Planet Percent
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Earth | 27.78%
Mars | 20.80
Venus | 16.67
Jupiter | 2.78
Mercury | 2.78
Neptune | 6.11
Saturn | 8.33
Uranus | 13.06
Pluto | 1.67
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25)

A tire shop that sells only one size of tire, .75 metres in diameter, decides to sell tires
for big rigs that are 1.5 metres in diameter. If the cost of the .75 meter tires is
$100.00 for four, how much will it cost for the 18 tires required for a big rig? Prices
increase proportionally with size.

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26)

Four friends buy a pizza that costs $20.00. Each person contributes a the following
amount of money.
Jane $5.00
Mike 8.00
Mary 3.00
Joe 4.00
Each person will eat an amount of pizza proportional to the amount of money they
paid.

1)Draw a circle graph that represents the amount each eat.

2)Draw the circle graph if Mike only eats half of his pizza and gives half of what he
has left to Mary.

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27)

A boy ate 100 cookies in five days. Each day he ate 6 more than the day before. How
many cookies did he eat on the first day?

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28)

M and N are the midpoints of the sides of a square. What is the ratio of the area of
traingle AMN to the area of the complete square?

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29)

There are 6 short pieces of link chain, each having 4 links. It takes 10 seconds to cut
a link and 25 seconds to weld it back together. What is the shortest possible time to
make the longest chain?

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30)

Magic Hexagon

Find the magic constant and fill in the numbers so that every column or diagonal
has the same sum.

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31)

An artist draws a picture of a house with a rose bush in front. In his picture the rose
bush is 1.5cm high and the house is 7.5cm high. In reality the rose bush is .75 metres
high. How tall is the house (in metres)?

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32)
 This picture shows a triangle in which 3 lines are drawn to one or the other of the
opposing sides from each of two vertices. This divides the triangle into 16
nonoverlapping sections.

If 4 lines are drawn in the same way, how many nonoverlapping sections will the
triangle have?

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33)

The sports commentator on the CFXU radio station summarized the points scored
by the St. F. X. Basketball Team during this season as follows:

"The SMU scored a total of 1729 points in the last season. This year St. F. X. scored
of 1653 points. ST. F.X. received 38 percent of the points for the total season of all 4
teams. SMU finished in second place. Acadia received only 14 percent of the points
and was beaten for third place by Dalhousie by 50 points."

If there were only 4 teams in the season, how many points did each team receive?

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34)

The midpoints of the sides of a quadrilateral are joined. What fraction of the
quadrilateral is shaded?
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35)

Rachel and Stephanie earn $5.15/hour. Rachel works 13 hours each week and
Stephanie works 20 hours per week. Stephanie does not get any paid vacation time.
How long a vacation would Stephanie have to take to make the same amount of
money as Rachel in one year?

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36)

The Town of Antigonish has decided to put a paved path around Columbus Field.
The path will be built so that the area of the park remains the same. If the path is to
be 3m wide...

a) What will be the perimeter of the path and the park? The dimensions of the park
are 210m x 460m.

b) What will be the area of the paved portion of the park?

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37)

Bacteria in a petri dish double the area they cover every day. If the dish is covered
after 16 days, on what day was only one quarter of it covered?

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38)

Joe buys a cup of coffee that costs $1.08. He pays with a two dollar coin.

If the cashier gives him 8 coins for his change, what could these coins be?

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39)

Write the linear equations that describe the diagonals of this trapezoid. What is one
property of these diagonals?

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40)

Water conservation can be a big problem in some parts of the world. If a

community's water pump drips 3 drops every second and each drop is 1 1/3ml, how
much water will be wasted in one year?

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41)

Square ABCD has the centers of 4 equal circles as its vertices. Find the shaded area.

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42)

Shawn bought a car for $5600.00. He sold it to Rachel for 5/6 the price he paid for it.
Rachel sold it to Raelene for 1/5 less than she paid. Raelene sold it to Rick for 3/4
what she paid.
 What did Rick pay for the car?

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43)

Points A and B on a map are 12km apart if you follow the path. A troop of
boyscouts leaves point A at 11:00 a.m.. They are all carrying packs and travel
3km/hr until they reach point C at 12:45. If they want to reach point B by 2:00, how
fast will they have to go?

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44)

Regular pentagon ABCDE is enclosed in a circle. If the radius of the circle is 5 and
each side AB = BC = CD = DE = EA = 5.88, find the area of the pentagon.

(In a 90 degree triangle, using pythagorean theorem c = square root of a2 + b2)

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45)

Line AB is parallel to line CD

The semicircle AED has diameter AD of 6cm. What is the area of the trapezoid
ABCD plus the semicircle AED?

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46)

In the quadrilateral ABCD, angle A is 120 degrees, angle D is two thirds of angle C,
and angle B is 90 degrees. Find angle C.

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47)
 Find the area of quadrilateral EFGH.

Given (HC)2 + (CG)2 = (HG)2

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48)

Two gear wheels A and B are in contact. One wheel (A) has 36 teeth. The other (B)
has 24 teeth. How many times must the smaller wheel turn before the larger wheel
completes a revolution?

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49)

Two trees of height 20m and 30m have ropes running from the top of each tree to
the bottom of the other tree. How high above the ground do the ropes intersect?

The trees are 40m apart.

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