GT – 1st Semester Exam Review

Question 1 Evaluate:

Question 2 Simplify:

Question 3 Simplify:

Question 4 The area of a square sandbox is 289 sq. ft. If you want to surround the sandbox, how much wood would you need to create a perimeter?

Question 5 Use the model to solve for x. = xxx

Question 6 Solve for x.

Question 7 Carmen cut a 12-yard piece of cloth into three pieces. The first two pieces were each three and three-fourths yards long. What was the length of the other piece?

Question 8 The Don’tKnowMath Corporation budgets its monthly income as follows: one-third for office supplies, one-fourth for rent, one- tenth for travel, and the rest for savings. What part is left for savings?

Question 9 Suppose you want to buy 100 shares of a certain stock that is selling for thirty two and a fourth dollars per share, but by the time you place your order the stock has gone up by two and three- eighths dollars a share. How much will you have to pay for the 100 shares, now?

Question 10 An 8 ft tall flagpole is casting a 6 ft shadow. What is the distance between the tip of the flagpole to the tip of the shadow?

Question 11 This year’s Super Bowl was played in Miami, FL when the temperature was 78º F. Last year, the game was played in New England with a temperature of – 5º F. What is the difference between in temperatures between for the two games?

Question 12 A phone company charged $5.74 for an one hour and 22 minute phone call. How much did it cost per minute?

Question 13 Jason purchased 4 pounds of rib-eye steaks at $ If Jason needs an additional 3 pounds of steak, what would be the extra cost?

Question 14 A gallon milk costs $2.03. If Patrick buys 5 gallons of milk, and used $20 bill to pay, how would you write an expression to calculate the change Patrick would receive?

Question 15 Jackie went to the store and noticed that they had a sale for 15% off. Jackie wants you to show the discount as a decimal and a fraction in simplest form.

Question 16 Suppose a telephone company charges $0.45 for the first three minutes and then $0.29 for each additional minute of a long- distance call. If a certain call costs $2.77, how many minutes was it?

Question 17 Warren bought a 24 foot long rope. He used ft to tie up some branches. Of what he had left, he used one-third to make a knot. How much rope does Warren have left?

Question 18 On four consecutive plays, Colt McCoy of the Texas Longhorns gained 6 yards, lost 7 yards, lost 14 yards, and gained 11 yards. What integer would best represent his total net yardage (gain or lost) for the 4 plays?

Question 19 The model below represents a number squared. What number is it?

Question 20 Evaluate:

Question 21 Arrange the numbers in order from least to greatest : three-fifth 0.67 two-thirds 0.61.

Question 22 Explain, step by step, how you would find the value of x. = xx

Question 23 Evaluate:

Question 24 Determine the rule that can be used to find the value of any term in the sequence: 4, 6, 8, 10, …, n, where n represents the position of the term?

Question 25 Hiro, the shark is swimming at a depth of 47 feet below sea level. A helicopter is flying at an altitude of 127 feet above sea level. What is the distance between Hiro and the helicopter?

Question 26 Simplify:

Question 27 Write in scientific notation:

Question 28 Shelly can read 45 pages in 20 minutes. If she continues to read at this rate, how many pages can she read in 2 hrs ?

Question 29 Oranges sell for $.89 per pound at HEB. Mr. Juice bought 3.2 pounds of oranges. How much did he pay for the oranges?

Question 30 Four friends wants to have an average of 88 for their test grades. If the first friend got a 85, the second got a 95, while the third friend got a 90. Write an equation with x to represent what the 4th friend needs to make their goal.

Question 31 Simplify:

Question 32 You and 4 friends went to dinner. Each entree cost $10.75, and drinks were $1.50, each. If you paid the entire bill, what was your total cost of dinner?

Question 33 On a cold winter day, the temperature reached -9ºC in Bishop, CA. The following day, it was even colder, and the temperature dropped 14ºC below -9ºC. What was the temperature on the following day?

Question 34 The top of Mount Whitney in CA, which can be seen from Death Valley, has an altitude of 14,494 feet above sea level. The bottom of Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level. Using zero as sea level, find the difference between these two elevations.

Question 35 What rule can be used to find the value of any term in the sequence below where n represents the position of the term? Position Value of term n ? A) 2n + 3 B) 8n – 2 C) 3n – 3 D) 4n + 2

Question 36 Distribute:

Question 37 If point A moves up 3 units and right 4 units. What quadrant is A’ in, and what is the ordered pair? A (-3, -1)

Question 38 Simplify:

Question 39 Four consecutive odd integers have a sum of – 208. What are the four integers?

Question 40 Zorro had a sheet of canvas wide. He left a margin wide on both sides of the paper. How wide was the space between the margins?

Question 41 Write the equation that is modeled.

Question 42 Solve:

Question 43 Jason purchased of telephone line. He used to install another phone in his home. How much telephone line did he have left?

Question 44 Simplify:

Question 45 The lawn in front of Sartartia Middle School is in the shape of a rectangle 12m long and 9m wide. How many meters shorter is your walk diagonally across the lawn rather than along two sides of the lawn?