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Write the ratio in two other ways.

2
1. !! 2. 3 : 8 3. 9 to 10
5

Write the ratio in simplest form.

4 16 21
4. !! 5. !! 6. !!

Lesson 8.1
20 24 42

Complete the statement.

1 ? 4 20 36 ?
7. !! " !! 8. !! " !! 9. !! " !!
4 16 9 ? 54 6

10. Two of the five players on the court for a basketball team are
forwards. Write this ratio in three different ways.
11. In a deck of playing cards, 26 of the 52 cards are red cards.
Write the ratio in simplest form.
12. You scored 45 answers correct out of 50 problems on a test.
Write the ratio of correct answers to questions in simplest form.

In Exercises 13–16, use the table that shows the average rainfall
in the month of May for some cities. Write the ratio described in
simplest form.
Number of cities with rainfall over 2 inches City Rainfall (inches)
13. !!!!!
Total number of cities listed
Yakima, WA 0.45
Number of cities with rainfall over 9 inches Hilo, HI 9.91
14. !!!!!
Total number of cities listed
Chicago, IL 3.32
Number of cities with rainfall between 2 and 3 inches Denver, CO 2.40
15. !!!!!!
Total number of cities listed
Santa Barbara, CA 0.16
Number of cities with rainfall over 9 inches Yakutat, AK 9.66
16. !!!!!
Number of cities with rainfall under 9 inches

The ratios of teachers to students in two schools are given.

Which ratio is smaller ?
1 5 32
17. !! 18. !! 19. !! 20. 3 : 48
20 75 704

18 to 380 1 to 25 5 : 90 11 to 180

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Tell whether the rate is written as a unit rate.

1. 36 miles per hour 2. 15 inches per 3 seconds 3. 3 chapters per day

Complete the statement.

$5 ? 60 mi 180 mi 75 words ?
4. !! " !! 5. !! " !! 6. !! " !!
1h 3h 2h ? 6 min 2 min

Write the unit rate.

120 lbs 196 words 225 calories
7. !! 8. !! 9. 
$15 4 min 3h
Write the rate and unit rate.
10. 15 chapters in 5 days 11. 21 meals in 7 days
12. 72 pounds for $8 13. 25 miles in 5 hours

14. A baseball team scored 432 runs in 72 games. How many runs did

Lesson 8.2
they score on average per game?
15. The speed limit on a highway is 65 miles per hour. If a person drives
the speed limit for 6 hours, how many miles will the person travel?

Write the unit rate.

8.48 in. 24.3 oz 12.42 lbs
16. !! 17. !! 18. !!
4 sec $3 6 in.

In Exercises 19–21, use the following information. A muffin shop

sells 12 muffins for $5.52 or 6 muffins for $2.94.
19. What is the unit price if you buy 12 muffins?
20. What is the unit price if you buy 6 muffins?
21. Which is the better buy? Explain.

22. In a car wash, one car can be washed in 4 minutes. How many cars
can be washed in 20 minutes? How long will it take to wash 15 cars?
23. A person is able to read 216 pages in 15 minutes. What is her
reading rate? What is her unit reading rate?
24. When you babysit for the Johnsons you earn $7 an hour. When you
babysit for the Harts you earn $25 for 4 hours. Which family pays a
higher hourly rate?

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Use cross products to decide whether the ratios form

a proportion.
4 20 6 57 7 37
1. !! ! !! 2. !! ! !! 3. !! ! !!
5 25 8 76 12 60

Solve the proportion.

x 4 7 21 x 22
4. !! " !! 5. !! " !! 6. !! " !!
4 8 12 x 5 10
x 21 5 x 3 18
7. !! " !! 8. !! " !! 9. !! " !!
9 27 12 36 x 42
x 25 104 x 18 54
10. !! " !! 11. !! " !! 12. !! " !!
7 35 48 6 x 57

13. For every dollar Sally spends on her credit card, she earns two
frequent flyer miles with an airline company. If Sally spends $2350
on her credit card, how many frequent flyer miles will she earn?
14. A small airplane is traveling at a rate of 40 meters per second.
How many meters will the airplane travel in 2 minutes at this rate?

Solve the proportion by using the cross products to write a

related equation.
6 x 15 21 15 20
15. !! " !! 16. !! " !! 17. !! " !!
8 20 y 35 12 c

Use a verbal model to write a proportion. Then solve

the proportion.
Lesson 8.3

18. You have two flower beds in which to plant roses and tulips. You
want the proportion of tulips to roses to be the same in each bed.
You plant 10 tulips and 6 roses in the first bed. How many tulips
will you need for the second bed if you plant 15 roses?
19. A car dealership always has the same proportion of sports cars and
family cars on the lot. They keep 5 family cars to every 3 sports cars.
If there are 108 sports cars on the lot, how many family cars do they
have on the lot?

Use proportions to complete the table.

20. Miles Run 2 4 ? 8 21. Number of Apples 5 10 ? 20

Time 3 ? 9 12 Weight in Ounces 8 ? 24 ?

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The scale of a drawing is 4 cm : 15 m. Find the unknown measure.

1. length on drawing ! 8 cm 2. width of object ! 60 m
length of object ! __?
____ width on drawing ! __?
____

In Exercises 3–5, use the following information. A cooking class

is making gingerbread houses similar to real-life houses. To do
this, they are using the scale 1 ft : 8 ft.
3. If the actual house is 24 feet tall, how tall will the gingerbread
house be?
4. An actual sidewalk is 3 feet wide. How big would the gingerbread’s
sidewalk be? A graham cracker is 3 inches wide. Is this the right size?
5. You want to paint windows on your gingerbread house with icing.
An actual window is 3 feet wide and 4 feet high. What size should
the window you paint in icing be?

In Exercises 6–9, use the following information. A scale commonly

used for model trains is the O scale. The O scale is 1 ft : 48 ft.
6. If an actual refrigerator car is 48 feet long, how long would the
O scale model of that car be?
7. The ice blocks that were used to cool the contents of a refrigerator
car were about 2 feet by 2 feet by 3 feet. What dimensions would
an O scale model ice block have?
8. An O scale model man is 1"12" inches tall. What size man would that
represent in real life?
9. The O scale man turns a hand brake wheel on the end of the
refrigerator car that is "12" inch in diameter. What is the diameter
of the wheel on the actual refrigerator car?

In Exercises 10–13, use the following information. A rectangle

is 10 centimeters wide and 16 centimeters long.
10. Use a metric ruler to draw the rectangle.
11. Use the scale 1 cm : 2 cm to draw a reduced rectangle.
Describe your method.
Lesson 8.4

12. Find the perimeter and area of the original and the
reduced rectangles.
reduced perimeter reduced area
13. Set up the ratios: "" and "".
original perimeter original area
Explain how these ratios are related to the scale.

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Write the number in words and as a percent.

15 7
1. !! 2. !! 3. 0.26
100 100
93
4. 0.75 5. !! 6. 0.01
100

Each small square in the model represents 1% (or !1

! ).
100
Represent the number of shaded squares as a percent,
a decimal, and a fraction.
7. 8. 9.

Match the percent with its equivalent fraction or decimal.

10. 52% 11. 13% 12. 60% 13. 48%
13 12
A. 0.13 B. !! C. !! D. 0.6
25 25

14. Write sixty-eight hundredths as a percent, a decimal, and a fraction.

15. A golfer makes 36% of his putts. Write this as a fraction and
a decimal.
16. There are 100 employees at a company and 46 are females.
What percent of the employees are female? What percent of the
employees are male? Explain how you found your answers.

In Exercises 17–19, use the graph that shows Amount of Time Spent on
the results in percents of a survey that asked Homework Each Day
300 students how much time they spend on
More than Less than
homework each day. 3 hours 1 hour
? 25%
17. What percent of the students spend more
than 3 hours a night on homework?
2-3 hours
18. Rewrite the percentages for the number 23%
of hours spent each night on homework
as decimals and as fractions.
19. What number of the students spend less 1-2 hours
than 1 hour a day? 1 hour or more? 41%

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Write the fraction or decimal as a percent.

1
1. !! 2. 0.2 3. 0.37
2
47 17 4
4. !! 5. !! 6. !!
50 20 5
563

Lesson 8.6
7. 0.146 8. 0.02 9. !!
1000
801 4 7
10. !! 11. !! 12. !!
1000 1 1

13. Write three fifths as a percent.

14. Write nineteen twentieths as a percent.

Use a number line to order the numbers from least to greatest.

1 2 13
15. 55%, !!, 0.53 16. 0.47, 41%, !! 17. !!, 69%, 0.61
2 5 20
3 2 8 3 2
18. 37%, !!, 0.38 19. !!, 0.6, 64%, !! 20. 0.5, 4%, !!, !!
8 3 13 50 45

Find the percent of the figure that is shaded. Round to the

nearest whole percent.
21. 22.

23. A group of 50 people were asked their favorite flavor of ice cream
between chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Thirty-one people liked
chocolate, fifteen people preferred vanilla, and four people chose
strawberry. Write the portion of people who prefer each flavor as a
fraction, a decimal, and a percent.
24. Seventeen sixth graders from a class of forty students named blue as
their favorite color. What percent of the students named blue as their
favorite color?

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Find the percent of the number.

1. 10% of 84 2. 5% of 20 3. 25% of 44
4. 37% of 50 5. 72% of 90 6. 12% of 16
2
7. 61% of 130 8. 15% of 152 9. 66 !!% of 54
3
10. You are buying six notebooks that total $10.94. There is a 5% sales
tax. What is the total amount of your purchase?
11. A person’s bill at a restaurant is $42.75. Estimate the amount of
a 15% tip.
12. The regular price for a pair of jeans is $36. The sale price is 45%
off the regular price. What is the sale price of the jeans?

Use the formula I ! Prt to find the simple interest for the
given values.
13. P " $150, r " 5%, t " 6 years 14. P " $225, r " 4%, t " 2 years

Lesson 8.7
15. P " $78, r " 2.5%, t " 3 years 16. P " $504, r " 3%, t " 4 years

Estimate the percent of the number.

17. 8% of 52 18. 76% of 2000 19. 19% of 120
20. 2% of 495 21. 24% of 84 22. 11% of 570

A coat costs $150. Use mental math to find the discount

described.
23. a 20% discount 24. a 25% discount 25. a 75% discount

In Exercises 26–30, use the table that shows the Item Cost Sale Discount
prices of some items that you want to purchase.
Sweater $35 30%
26. Calculate the sale price of the sweater. Socks $3 10%
27. Calculate the sale price of the pants. Pants $28 20%
28. Estimate the sale price for the socks Shirt $19 30%
and the belt. Belt $12 25%
29. Find the discount on the shirt.
30. What is the total amount you will have to
pay for all of the items in the table?

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For use after Chapter 8

Solve the equation using mental math. (Lesson 1.6)

1. y ! 8 " 1 2. 4x " 12 3. 15 # t " 11 4. 6 $ k " 6

Find the perimeter and area of the rectangle or square.

(Lesson 2.2).
5. 6. 7. 2 cm
9 yd
10 cm
11 mm
20 yd

11 mm

Make a double bar graph of the data. (Lesson 2.5)

8. Participation in Collegiate Sports 9. Elevation Extremes
Sport Males Females Highest Lowest
State (meters) (meters)
Basketball 15,079 13,750
Colorado 4402 1022
Golf 7476 2700
New Mexico 4014 867
Rowing 3164 5009
South Dakota 2209 295

Write the decimal in words. (Lesson 3.1)

10. 34.7 11. 8.12 12. 11.425 13. 20.045

Round the decimal to the leading digit. (Lesson 3.4)

14. 0.0841 15. 0.069 16. 0.006183 17. 0.000472

Find the product or quotient. Round to the nearest hundredth

when necessary. (Lessons 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6)
18. 4.21 % 8 19. 5 % 0.85 20. 3.72 % 0.4
21. 14.8 ! 9 22. 47 ! 3.2 23. 7.5 ! 4.3
Review and Projects

Tell whether you would multiply or divide to change the units.

(Lesson 4.8)
24. Change centimeters to millimeters 25. Change liters to milliliters
26. Change kilograms to grams 27. Change meters to kilometers

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Write the decimal as a fraction or mixed number in simplest form.

(Lesson 5.7)
28. 0.24 29. 3.2 30. 0.225 31. 14.07

Write the fraction or mixed number as a decimal. (Lesson 5.8)

3 21 2 4
32. && 33. && 34. && 35. 5&&
5 25 9 11

Find the sum or difference. Simplify if possible.

(Lessons 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5)
5 2 13 3
36. && # && 37. && $ &&
9 9 16 16
7 5 2 7
38. && # && 39. && $ &&
8 6 3 9
3 5 7 2
40. 6&& $ 4&& 41. 5&& # 1&&
4 8 9 9
5 7 3
42. 4 && # 2&& 43. 8 # 2&&
12 12 5

Find the elapsed time. (Lesson 6.6)

44. 3:30 A.M. to 7:45 A.M. 45. 6:20 P.M. to 10:05 P.M.

Find the product or quotient. Simplify if possible.

(Lessons 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5)
3 4 3 2 5 1 1
46. && % && 47. && % && 48. 1&& % 3 49. 2&& % 1&&
5 7 8 3 6 2 3
5 3 7 1 1 3 1 1
50. && ! && 51. && ! && 52. 7&& ! && 53. 3&& ! 1&&
8 4 5 15 5 5 4 2

Solve the proportion. (Lesson 8.3)

x 7 24 12 63 7 14 b
54. && " && 55. && " && 56. && " && 57. && " &&
56 8 18 w y 5 49 42

Find the percent of the number. (Lesson 8.7) Review and Projects
58. 35% of 72 59. 20% of 55 60. 5% of 120

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