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A Plan for Problem Solving
MAGAZINES For Exercises 1 and 2, use the table that shows the costs of
several popular magazines.

Costs of Popular Magazines

Magazine Cost of Yearly Subscription Cost of a Single Copy
Teen World $9.98 (12 issues) $3.25
Soccer World $19.97 (6 issues) $4.99
Book Nation $19.98 (12 issues) $2.99
TV Weekly $46.28 (52 issues) $1.95

1. How much could you save by buying 2. Which of the magazines saves you the
Teen World with a yearly subscription most money by purchasing a yearly
rather than 12 single copies? subscription instead of an equivalent
number of single copies? How much
will you save?

Lesson 1–1
3. BICYCLING Adriana can ride her bicycle 4. BASKETBALL At Johnson Middle School
6 miles in one hour. How long will it an average of 500 people attended each
take her to ride 15 miles? of the 15 home basketball games. If
admission was $3 per person, about
how much money was collected in all?

5. THEATER A local theater has floor 6. POPCORN Janelle plans to buy three
seating, balcony seating, and box boxes of popcorn at the movies for
seating. If the theater contains 2,500 herself and two friends. If each box
seats with 425 seats in the balcony and costs $1.95, how much change will she
215 box seats, how many seats are on receive when she pays with a ten-dollar
the floor? bill?

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Powers and Exponents
1. SPACE SHUTTLE The cost of each flight 2. ANIMALS The African bush elephant is
of the Space Shuttle is about the largest land animal and weighs
$10,000,000. Write this amount in about 8 tons. Write this amount in
exponential form. exponential form.

3. VOLUME To find the volume of a 4. SCIENCE A certain type of cell doubles

rectangular box you multiply the every hour. If you start with one cell, at
length times the width times the the end of one hour you would have
height. In a cube all sides are the same 2 cells, at the end of two hours you
length. If the cube has length, width, have 4 cells, and so on. The expression
and height of 6 inches, write the 2
2
2
2
2 tells you how many
volume as a product. Then write it in cells you would have after five hours.
exponential form. Write this expression in exponential
form; then evaluate it.

5. MATH Write 625 using exponents in as 6. PREFIXES Many prefixes are used in
many ways as you can. mathematics and science. The prefix
giga in gigameter represents
1,000,000,000 meters. Write this prefix
as a power of ten.

7. LIBRARY The school library contains 8. HOT DOGS The concession stand at the
94 books. How many library books are county fair sold 63 hot dogs on the first
in the school library? day. How many hot dogs did they sell?

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Order of Operations
1. FOOTBALL The middle school team 2. BOOKS Juan goes to the schoolbook fair
scored three field goals worth three where paperback books are $1.50 and
points each and two touchdowns worth hardback books are $3.00. Juan buys 5
six points each, including extra points. paperback and 2 hardback books. Write
Write a numerical expression to find a numerical expression to find how
the team’s score. Then evaluate the much Juan paid for the books. Then
expression. evaluate the expression.

3. GEOMETRY The perimeter of a hexagon 4. MONEY Aisha bought school supplies

is found by adding the lengths of all six consisting of 6 spiral notebooks costing
sides of the hexagon. For the hexagon $0.39 each, 2 packages of pencils at
below write a numerical expression to $0.79 each, and a 3-ring binder for
find the perimeter. Then evaluate the $1.99. Write an expression to find the
expression. 8 total amount Aisha spent on school
5 5 supplies. Then evaluate the expression.

5 5
8

5. REASONING Use the order of operations 6. NUMBER SENSE Without parentheses,

and the digits 2, 4, 6, and 8 to create an the expression 8  30  2  4 equals
expression with a value of 2. 27. Place parentheses in the expression
so that it equals 13; then 23.

Lesson 1–3
7. MONEY Tyrone bought 5 postcards at 8. DINING Mr. Firewalks took his family
$0.55 each and a set of postcards for out to eat. They ordered 3 meals costing
$1.20. Write an expression to find the $8.99 each, 2 sodas at $1.50 each, and 1
total amount Tyrone spent on glass of tea for $1.25. Write an
postcards. Then evaluate the expression to find the total amount the
expression. Firewalks family spent on dinner
before taxes and tip. Then evaluate the
expression.

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Algebra: Variables and Expressions
1. FIELD TRIP The seventh grade math 2. SOCCER Jason earns $20 per game as a
classes are going on a field trip. The referee in youth soccer games. Write an
field trip will cost $7 per student. Write expression to find how much money
an expression to find the cost of the Jason will earn for refereeing any
field trip for s students. What is the number of games. Let n represent the
total cost if 26 students go on the trip? number of games Jason has refereed.
How much will he earn for refereeing
6 games?

3. PROFIT The expressions c  e, where c 4. SAVINGS Kata has a savings account

stands for the money collected and e that contains $230. She decides to
stands for the expenses, is used to find deposit $5 each month from her
the profit from a basketball concession. monthly earnings for baby-sitting after
If $500 was collected and expenses school. Write an expression to find how
were $150, find the profit for the much money Kata will have in her
concession. savings account after x months. Let x
represent the number of months. Then
find out how much she will have in her
account after 1 year.

5. MONEY Mr. Wilson has $2,500 in his 6. ANIMALS Write an expression to

savings account and m dollars in his represent the total number of legs on h
checking account. Write an expression horses and c chickens. How many legs
that describes the total amount that he are there in 5 horses and 6 chickens?
has in both accounts.

7. T-SHIRTS The band wants to order 8. TEMPERATURE The expression 9C  32,
5
T-shirts. The T-shirts cost $15 each plus
where C stands for temperature in
a shipping fee of $10. Write an
degrees Celsius, is used to convert
expression to find the total cost of c
Celsius to Fahrenheit. If the
T-shirts.
temperature is 20 degrees Celsius, find
the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.

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Algebra: Equations

Lesson 1–5
1. GAS MILEAGE Mr. Moseley’s car has a 2. PAINTING Latisha earned $5 an hour
20-gallon gas tank. It took 14 gallons of painting for her dad. If she made $40
gas to fill his tank. Use the equation last week, use 5h  40 to find how
14  g  20 to find the number of many hours h she painted.
gallons g that he had before he filled
his tank with gas.

3. LUMBER Mrs. Garcia had a piece of 4. MAGAZINES Mahpee was selling

board that was 15 feet long. She cut off magazine subscriptions. He earned $5
6.5 feet. Use the equation 6.5 
 15 plus $0.50 for each subscription he
to determine how much of the board
sold. If Mahpee earned $25, use the
she has left. equation 25  5  0.50n to find the
number of subscriptions n he sold.

5. TIRES The cost of a car tire is $45 plus 6. AREA If the area of a rectangle is
$10 per order regardless of the number 30 square centimeters and the length is
of tires purchased. If Mrs. Sato places 6 centimeters, use the equation
an order for $190, use the equation 30  6w to find the width w of the
45t  10  190 to find the number of rectangle.
tires t she purchased.

7. SUPPLIES The Jones Middle School had 8. PENCILS Mi-Leng spent 90 cents on
$4,000 to spend on office supplies. They 6 pencils. Use the equation 90  6c to
had already spent $1,250. Use the find the cost c of each pencil.
equation 1,250  d  4,000 to find how
much money d the school had left for
other supplies.

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Algebra: Properties
1. MUSIC Mr. Escalante and Mrs. Turner 2. SAVINGS Mrs. Perez was looking at her
plan to take their music classes to a bank account statement. She noticed
musical revue. Tickets cost $6 each. Mr. that her beginning balance was $500,
Escalante’s class needs 22 tickets, and and she had added nothing to her
Mrs. Turner’s class needs 26 tickets. account. What was the ending balance
Use the Distributive Property to write on her statement? What property did
a sentence to express how to find the you apply?
total cost of tickets in two ways.

3. ADDITION Mr. Brooks was working on 4. AREA Aleta noticed that for the
addition using dominos with a group of rectangle below she could either
1st graders. When picking the domino multiply 2 times 3 or 3 times 2 to get
with 3 dots on one end and 5 dots on its area of 6 square inches. What
the other, some students read. “3 plus 5 property allows her to do this?
equal 8” while others read it as “5 plus 3 in.
3 equals 8.” What property were these
children using? Explain. 2 in.

5. NUMBER CUBES Students in Mr. Rivas’ 6. FACTS Bik was working on memorizing
class were practicing their her multiplication facts. She noticed
multiplication skills by rolling three that anytime she multiplied a number
6-sided number cubes. Wapi rolled a 2, by 1, she got the same number she
a 3, and a 5 on his roll. He multiplied started with. What property allows this
the three numbers as follows using the to be true?
order of operations: (2
3)
5  30.
Write another way Wapi could have
performed the multiplication without
changing the order of the numbers.
State the property you used.

7. MONEY Mei was trying to figure out 8. WALKING Jacob walked 3 blocks to
the cost of 4 boxes of cereal for $2.25 Ping’s house, then 5 blocks to Jamal’s
each. Write a sentence to show Mei an house. Write a sentence to show that
easy way to do her calculations. What the distance from Ping’s to Jamal’s is
property did you apply to help her? the same as the return walk home.
Name the property illustrated in your
sentence.

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Sequences
1. NUMBERS The multiples of two form a 2. OLYMPICS The summer Olympics occur
sequence as follows: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, every four years. If the last summer
14, 16, …. What type of sequence do Olympics happened in 2000, when are
you see? What about the multiples of the next three times that it will occur?
three? Four? Five? What type of sequence do the Olympic
years form?

3. BABY-SITTING Tonya charges $3.50 per 4. RECTANGLES Suppose you start with 1
hour to baby-sit. The sequence $3.50, rectangle and then divide it in half. You
$7.00, $10.50, $14.00, … represents now have 2 rectangles. You divide each
how much she charges for each of these in half, and you have 4
subsequent hour. For example, $10.50 rectangles. The sequence for this
is the third term that represents how division is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, . . . rectangles

Lesson 1–7
much she charges for 3 hours. What are after each successive division. What
the next three terms in the sequence? type of sequence results?
How much does she charge for 7 hours
of baby-sitting?

5. BACTERIA Three bacteria are in a dish. 6. ENROLLMENT The enrollment at Grove

Each hour the number of bacteria Middle School is expected to increase
multiplies by four. If at the end of the by 40 students each year for the next 5
first hour there are 12 bacteria, how years. If their current enrollment is 600
many bacteria are there at the end of students, find their enrollment after
the next three hours? What type of each of the next 5 years.
sequence results?

7. SALARY Mrs. Malone’s current salary is 8. FIBONACCI The Fibonacci sequence is

$1,500. She expects it to increase $100 named after Leonardo Fibonacci who
per year. Write the first 6 terms of a first explored it. Look at the Fibonacci
sequence that represents her salary. sequence below and describe its
The first term should be her current pattern. Is it arithmetic, geometric or
salary. What does the sixth term neither? 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …
represent?

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Measurement: The Metric System
1. RUNNING Each morning Carlos runs 2. AVIATION A helicopter was flying
1.5 kilometers. How many meters did 800 meters above the ground. How
he run? many kilometers above the ground was
it flying?

3. SODA A soda can contains 355 4. CONSTRUCTION The ceilings of most

milliliters of liquid. How many liters of classrooms are about 2.5 meters above
liquid does it contain? the floor. How many centimeters high is
the ceiling?

5. FENCING Gerri’s garden is 6. GARDENING Mr. Chou’s lawn sprinker

1,270 centimeters around the edges. sprays about 150 liters of water each
How many meters of fencing material hour. How many kiloliters of water does
does she need to enclose her garden? it spray?

7. NUTRITION For 11- to 14-year-olds, the 8. MEASUREMENT A measure of one pound

Recommended Dietary Allowance is equivalent to about 454 grams. How
(RDA) for protein is about 60 grams many kilograms are in one pound? How
daily. How many milligrams do they many milligrams?
need daily?

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Scientific Notation
1. ICEBERG The biggest iceberg ever seen 2. PLANETS The average distance between
that had split off the Ross Ice Shelf in Earth and the Sun is 92,960,000 miles.
Antarctica happened during the spring Write this distance in scientific
of 2000. It was estimated to weigh notation.
about 4,000,000,000,000 tons. Write its
weight in scientific notation.

3. POPULATION The population of Texas 4. BASEBALL Willie Mays hit 6.6
102
was about 20,900,000 in the 2000 U.S. career home runs. Write 6.6
102 in
census. Write this number in scientific standard form.
notation.

5. EARTH The mass of Earth is about 6. LIGHT The speed of light is about
6,580,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. 2.998
108 meters per second or about
Write this value in scientific notation. 1.86
105 miles per second. Write
these values in standard form.

Lesson 1–9
7. WEALTH In 1999, the wealthiest man in 8. POPULATION In 2001, the population of
the world’s assets were estimated at the world was about 6,160,000,000. The
about $90,000,000,000. Write this value projected population of the world for
in scientific notation. the year 2025 is about 7,840,000,000.
Write these values in scientific
notation.

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Frequency Tables
FAVORITE COLORS For Questions 1–3, use HOLIDAYS For Questions 4–6, use the
the table below. It shows the favorite table below. It shows the number of
colors of the students in Mr. Swatzky’s holidays in each month of 2003.
class.
2003 Holidays
Favorite Colors of 3 5 5 5
Mr. Swatzky’s Students 4 4 1 0
B R R O B Y G G P B 2 6 5 2
Y B B Y R O B R B Y
G B O Y B Y G G G G
P Y R R G
B  blue, R  red, G  green, Y  yellow,
O  orange, P  purple

1. Make a frequency table of the data. 2. If one student changed his or her vote
Favorite Color Tally Frequency from blue to yellow, what would be the

Lesson 2–1
favorite color of most students?

3. If one student changed his or her vote from 4. What is wrong with using the
red to purple, what would be the favorite intervals 1–2, 3–4, and 5–6 to
color of the fewest students? represent the data in a frequency
table?

5. Make a frequency table of the data. 6. What is the interval and scale of your
frequency table from Question 5?
Holidays Tally Frequency

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Making Predictions
IDITAROD RACE For Exercises 1 and 2, ENTERTAINMENT For Exercises 3 and 4,
use the data in the table. It shows use the table. It shows the gross
the number of days it took the winner amount collected during several
to complete the Iditarod race. Broadway seasons.
Broadway Season
Iditarod Race Winning Times
Earnings
Winning Time (rounded to Earnings
Year Year
the nearest day) ($ million)
1976 19 1997–1998 558
1982 16 1998–1999 588
1988 11 1999–2000 603
1994 11 2000–2001 666
2000 9

1. Make a line graph of the data. 2. Use your line graph from Exercise 2 to
predict the winning time in 2006, if the
Iditarod Winning trend continues.
Times
20
18
16
14
Time (days)

12
10
8
6
4
2
0
6
2
8
4
0
’7
’8
’8
’9
’0

Year

3. Make a scatter plot of the data. 4. Use your scatter plot to predict about
how much money a Broadway season
Broadway Season will gross in 2005–2006, if the trend
Earnings
continues.
800
700
Earnings ($ millions)

600
500
400
300
200
100
0
’9 98
’9 ’99
’0 ’00

1
’0
’
7—

8—
9—
0—
’9

Year

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Line Plots
TELEVISION SETS For Exercises 1–6, use the table below. It shows the
number of television sets owned by 30 different families.

Number of TVs
2 1 2 4 3 0
2 3 2 3 4 2
1 2 2 3 4 0
3 1 3 2 1 2
5 3 4 3 0 0

1. Make a line plot for the data. 2. How many televisions do most families
own?

3. What is the greatest number of 4. What is the range of the data? 5

televisions owned by a family?

Lesson 2–3
5. Identify any clusters, gaps, or outliers, 6. Describe how the range of the data
if any exist, and explain what they would change if 5 were not part of the
mean. data set.

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Mean, Median, and Mode
SCHOOL For Exercises 1–6, use the table below. It shows the number of
times per day that students go to their lockers.

Student Locker Visits

2 2 0 1 2 2 3 4
0 5 2 5 2 5 2 4
2 4 6 4 5 6 5 6
2 2 0 1 4 6 10 2

1. Make a frequency table of the data. 2. What is the range of the data? 10

Number
Tally Frequency
of Visits

3. Find the mean, median, and mode of 4. Would the mean, median, or mode best
the data. Round to the nearest tenth if represent the data? Explain.
necessary.

5. Explain why the mean does not best 6. If the value 10 were dropped from the
represent the data. data, find the median and the mode of
the remaining data.

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Stem-and-Leaf Plots
ENDANGERED SPECIES For Exercises 1–6, use the table below. It shows

Lesson 2–5
the number of endangered species in the U.S.

Endangered Species in U.S.

Number of Number of
Group Group
Species Species
mammals 63 clams 61
birds 78 snails 20
reptiles 14 insects 33
amphibians 10 arachnids 12
fishes 70 crustaceans 18

1. Make a stem-and-leaf plot of the data. 2. What group has the greatest number of
endangered species in the U.S.?

3. What group has the least number of 4. What is the range of the data? 68
endangered species in the U.S.?

5. Use your stem-and-leaf plot to 6. How many groups have less than 30
determine the median and mode. endangered species in the U.S.?

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Box-and-Whisker Plots
SOCCER For Exercises 1–6, use the table below. It shows the number of
wins in a recent major league soccer season.

Major League Soccer Wins

16 13 7 8 10 4
14 13 11 5 16 13

1. Find the lower extreme, LQ, median, 2. Construct a box-and-whisker plot of the
UQ, and upper extreme. data in the table.

3. What fraction of the data is greater 4. What fraction of the data is between
than 7.5? 7.5 and 13.5?

5. Determine the interquartile range. 6 6. Use the interquartile range to

determine the limits for the outliers.
Are there any outliers?

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Bar Graphs and Histograms
PUPPIES For Exercises 1 and 2, use the EARTH SCIENCE In Exercises 3–6, use
table below. It shows the results of a the table below. It shows the highest
survey in which students were asked wind speeds in 30 U.S. cities.
what name they would most like to Highest Wind Speeds (mph)
give a new pet puppy.
52 75 60 80 55 54 91 60 81 58
Name Votes 53 73 46 76 53 46 73 46 51 49
Max 15 57 58 56 47 65 49 56 51 54 51
Tiger 5
Lady 13
Shadow 10
Molly 9
Buster 2

1. Make a bar graph to display the data. 2. Use your bar graph from Exercise 1.
Compare the number of votes the name
Favorite New Puppy Names Shadow received to the number of votes

Lesson X–1
2–7
the name Tiger received.

3. Make a histogram of the data. 4. What is the top wind speed of most of
Highest Wind Speeds the cities?

5. How many cities recorded wind speeds 6. How many cities recorded their highest
of 80 miles per hour or more? wind speeds at 60 miles per hour or
more?

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Misleading Statistics
QUIZ SCORES For Exercises 1 and 2, use BOOK SALES For Exercises 3 and 4, use
the data shown in the table below. The the table below. It shows the number
table shows the quiz grades for of books sold each day for 20 days.
Ms. Andrey’s and Mr. Luna’s classes. Book Sales Per Day
Quiz Scores 23 18 23 15
Ms. Andrey’s Mr. Luna’s
Class Class 24 16 0 11
10 20 19 10 13 17
15 20 12 23 11 16
25 25 36 24 12 27
25 29
12 26

1. Ms. Andrey claims the average score on 2. What additional information could be
a quiz in her class was 25. Mr. Luna useful in analyzing the data?
claims the average score on a quiz in
his class is 25. Explain how they
arrived at these figures.

3. Find the mean, median, and mode of 4. Which value would most accurately
the data. Which measure of central describe the data? Explain.
tendency would be misleading in
describing the book sales? Explain.

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Integers and Absolute Value

1. DEATH VALLEY The lowest point in the 2. RAIN A meteorologist reported that in
United States is Death Valley in the month of April there were 3 inches
California. Its altitude is 282 feet below more rainfall than normal. Write an
sea level. Write an integer to represent integer to represent the amount of
the altitude of Death Valley. rainfall above normal in April.

3. ARCHIMEDES A famous mathematician 4. TEMPERATURE In our world’s tropical

Lesson 3–1
and physicist named Archimedes was rain forests, the average temperature of
born in 287 B.C. Write an integer to every month is 64 degrees above zero
express the year of his birth. or higher. Write an integer to express
this temperature.

5. STOCK MARKET A certain stock gained 6. ALTITUDE An airplane pilot changed his
5 points in one day and lost 4 points altitude by 100 meters. Describe what
the next day. Write integers to this could mean.
represent the stock’s gains and losses
for the two days.

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Comparing and Ordering Integers
HISTORY OF WRITING For Exercises 1 and 2, EXTREME TEMPERATURES For Exercises 3–5,
use the table below. It shows important use the table below. It shows the extreme
events in the history of writing. temperatures for four states. Temperatures
are in degrees Fahrenheit.
Aprox.
Event Extreme Temperatures (
F)
Year
The Iliad and the Odyssey are
700 BC State Highest Lowest
composed by Homer.
T’sai Lun invents paper. 105 AD
Alabama 104 3
Date of oldest existing papyrus 2200 BC
Nebraska 118 47
Ovid wrote Metamorphosis. 5 AD

Torah is compiled. 450 BC

Maine 101 30
Metal type developed in Korea 1241 AD Florida 109 2

1. Write each year as an integer. 2. Order the integers from Exercise 1

from least to greatest. Write a sentence
describing the earliest and most recent
events in the table.

3. Arrange the highest temperatures 4. What is the median low temperature

from greatest to least. for these four states?

5. Nebraska’s lowest temperature was 6. MONEY Mr. Firewalks pays close

47F, and Maine’s lowest temperature attention to how much money is in his
was 30F. Write a true statement checking account. One week he
using the two temperatures with the deposited $230, spent $15 on a lunch,
symbol  or . and loaned $25 to a friend. Write each
transaction as an integer, and list them
from least to greatest.

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The Coordinate Plane
SCHOOL For Exercises 1–4, use the Art Entrance
coordinate plane at the right. It y
5
shows a map of the rooms in a 4 Special Services
Library
junior high school. 3
English
Computer Lab 2
1
Nurse Counselor History

5
4
3
2 O 1 2 3 4 5x

2 Athletic Dept.
Science
3
Math
4 Music

5

Exit

1. Thalia is in the room located at (2, 1). 2. Thalia’s next class is 8 units to the
What room is she in? Describe in words right and 5 units down on the map
how to get from the origin to this point. from where she is now. In what room is
Thalia’s next class? Find the ordered
pair that represents the location of that
room.

3. Tyrone is in the Art room, but his next 4. On the map, which classrooms are
class is in the History room. Give located in the third quadrant? Describe
Tyrone directions on how to get to the the coordinates of all points in the third
History room. quadrant.

5. NEIGHBORHOOD Delsin made a map of 6. NEIGHBORHOOD Refer to Exercise 5. In Lesson 3–3

his neighborhood in such a way that which quadrant is Delsin when he is
each intersection is a point on a done walking? Describe this quadrant.
coordinate plane. Right now, Delsin
stands at point (4, 3). Give the
ordered pair of where he will be if
moves 5 units to the right and 7 units
up on the map.

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Adding Integers
Write an addition expression to describe each situation. Then find each sum.

1. FOOTBALL A team gains 20 yards. Then 2. MONEY Roger owes his mom $5. He
they lose 7 yards. borrows another $6 from her.

3. GOLF Juanita’s score was 5 over par on 4. HOT AIR BALLOON A balloon rises
the first 9 holes. Her score was 4 under 340 feet into the air. Then it descends
par on the second 9 holes. 130 feet.

5. CYCLING A cyclist travels downhill for 6. AIRPLANE A plane descends 1,200 feet.
125 feet. Then she travels up a hill Then it descends another 500 feet.
50 feet.

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Subtracting Integers
Subtract.

Lesson 3–5
1. FOOTBALL A team gained 5 yards on 2. CHECKING Your checking account is
their first play of the game. Then they overdrawn by $50. You write a check
lost 6 yards. Find the total change in for $20. What is the balance in your
yardage. account?

3. TEMPERATURE The average temperature 4. ROLLER COASTER A roller coaster begins

in Calgary, Canada, is 22C in July and at 90 feet above ground level. Then it
11C in January. Find the range of descends 105 feet. Find the height of
the highest and lowest temperatures in the coaster after the first descent.
Calgary.

5. SAVINGS Sonia has $235 in her savings 6. BEACH Wai and Kuri were digging in
account. She withdraws $45. What is the sand at the beach. Wai dug a hole
left in her savings account? that was 15 inches below the surface,
and Kuri dug a hole that was 9 inches
below the surface. Find the difference
in the depths of their holes.

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Multiplying Integers
Multiply.

1. TEMPERATURE Suppose the temperature 2. DIVING A deep-sea diver descends

outside is dropping 3 degrees each below the surface of the water at a rate
hour. How much will the temperature of 60 feet each minute. What is the
drop in 8 hours? depth of the diver after 10 minutes?

3. STOCK A computer stock lost 2 points 4. DROUGHT A drought can cause the
each hour for 6 hours. Find the total level of the local water supply to drop
points the stock fell. by a few inches each week. Suppose the
level of the water supply drops 2 inches
each week. How far will it have
dropped in 4 weeks?

5. MONEY Mrs. Rockwell lost money on 6. TENNIS BALLS Josh purchased 8 cans of
an investment at a rate of $4 per day. tennis balls. The cans came with 3 balls
How much did she lose after two in each can. How many balls did Josh
weeks? purchase?

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Dividing Integers
Divide.

1. STOCK MARKET During a 5-day 2. MOTION Mr. Diaz decreased the speed
workweek, the stock market decreased of his car by 30 miles per hour over a
by 65 points. Find the average daily period of 10 seconds. Find the average
change in the market for the week. change in speed each second.

3. WEATHER Over the past seven days, 4. BASKETBALL The basketball team lost

Lesson 3–7
Mrs. Cho found that the temperature their last 6 games. They lost by a total
outside had dropped a total of of 48 points. Find the average number
35 degrees. Find the average drop in of points by which each game was lost.
temperature each day.

5. POPULATION The enrollment at Davis 6. SUBMARINE A submarine descends at a

Middle School dropped by 60 students rate of 60 feet each minute. How long
over a 5-year period. What is the will it take it to descend to a depth of
average yearly drop in enrollment? 660 feet below the surface?

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Writing Expressions and Equations
OLYMPICS For Exercises 1–4, use the table that shows the number of
medals won by each country in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

2002 Winter Olympic Medals

Country Medals Country Medals Country Medals
Germany 35 Austria 16 China 8
USA 34 Italy 12 Finland 7
Norway 24 France 11 Sweden 6
Canada 17 Switzerland 11 Croatia 4
Russia 16 Netherlands 8 South Korea 4

Let x represent the number of medals won by Italy.

1. Write an expression using x to 2. Write an expression using x to

represent the number of medals won by represent the number of medals won by
Russia. Croatia.

Lesson 4–1
3. Which country’s number of medals can 4. Which country’s number of medals can
be represented by 2x? be represented by 2x  10?

5. GEOGRAPHY The Virgin Islands were 6. POPULATION According to the Census

acquired by the United States in 1927. Bureau, the U.S. population grew from
This is 29 years after Puerto Rico was 281.4 million in April 2000 to 284.8
acquired. Write an equation to model million in July 2001. Write an equation
this situation. to model this situation.

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Solving Addition and Subtraction Equations
ANIMALS For Exercises 1–4, use the table.
The average lifespans of several different types of animals are shown in the table.

Average Lifespans of Animals

Animal Lifespan (yr) Animal Lifespan (yr)
Black Bear 18 Guinea Pig 4
Dog 12 Puma ?
Giraffe 10 Tiger 16
Gray Squirrel 10 Zebra ?

1. The lifespan of a black bear is 3 years 2. Solve the equation you wrote in
longer than the lifespan of a zebra. Exercise 1. What is the lifespan of a
Write an addition equation that you zebra?
could use to find the lifespan of a zebra.

3. The lifespan of a guinea pig is 8 years 4. Solve the equation you wrote in
shorter than the lifespan of a puma. Exercise 3. What is the lifespan of a
Write a subtraction equation that you puma?
could use to find the lifespan of a
puma.

5. TECHNOLOGY A survey of teens showed 6. SPORTS Annika Sorenstam won the

that teens in Pittsburgh aged 12-17 2002 LPGA Takefuji Classic with a
spend 15.8 hours per week online. final score of 14 under par, or 14. Her
Teens in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale spend scores for the first two of the three
14.2 hours per week online. Write and rounds were 6 and 4. What was Ms.
solve an addition equation to find the Sorenstam’s score for the third round?
difference in time spent online by teens
in these cities.

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Solving Multiplication Equations
1. TRAVEL The speed limit on an Arizona 2. TRAVEL Solve the equation you wrote in
highway is 75 miles per hour. Suppose Exercise 1. How long did the truck
a truck traveling at the speed limit travel?
drives 225 miles before the driver stops
for a break. Write a multiplication
equation to find the length of time the
truck has traveled.

3. FLOWERS A gardening expert 4. FLOWERS Solve the equation you wrote

recommends that flower bulbs be in Exercise 3. What is the height of the
planted to a depth of three times their bulb?
height. Suppose Jenna determines that
a certain bulb should be planted at a
depth of 4.5 inches. Write a
multiplication equation to find the
height of the bulb.

5. EXERCISE A 125-pound person uses 6. EXERCISE Solve the equation you wrote
4.4 Calories per minute when walking. in Exercise 5. How many minutes of
Write a multiplication equation to find walking it will take for a 125-pound
the number of minutes of walking it person to use 198 Calories?
will take for a 125-pound person to use
198 Calories.

Lesson 4–3
7. ELECTRICITY The electric company 8. ELECTRICITY Solve the equation you
charges $0.06 per kilowatt hour of wrote in Exercise 7. For how many
electricity used. Write a multiplication kilowatt hours of electricity was the
equation to find the number of kilowatt Estevez family charged?
hours of electricity for which the
Estevez family was charged if their
electric bill was $45.84.

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Solving Two-Step Equations
1. GOLF It costs $12 to attend a golf clinic 2. MONEY Paulo has $145 in his savings
with a local pro. Buckets of balls for account. He earns $36 a week mowing
practice during the clinic cost $3 each. lawns. If Paulo saves all of his
How many buckets can you buy at the earnings, after how many weeks will he
clinic if you have $30 to spend? have $433 saved?

3. RETAIL An online retailer charges $6.99 4. MONEY Caitlin has a $10 gift
plus $0.55 per pound to ship electronics certificate to the music store. She has
purchases. How many pounds is a DVD chosen a number of CDs from the $7
player for which the shipping charge is bargain bin. If the cost of the CDs is
$11.94? $32 after the gift certificate is credited,
how many CDs did Caitlin buy?

5. EMPLOYMENT Mrs. Jackson earned a 6. PHOTOGRAPHY Morgan subscribes to a

$500 bonus for signing a one-year website for processing her digital
contract to work as a nurse. Her salary pictures. The subscription is $5.95 per
is $22 per hour. If her first week’s check month and 4 by 6 inch prints are $0.19
including the bonus is $1,204, how each. How many prints did Morgan
many hours did Mrs. Jackson work? purchase if the charge for January was
$15.83?

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Inequalities

Lesson 4–5
1. HURRICANES The National Hurricane 2. BUSINESS An Internet company
Center issues a hurricane warning if reported that its earnings will be less
sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or than the 24 cents per share that was
higher associated with a hurricane are predicted. Write an inequality showing
expected in a coastal area. Write an the possible earnings per share.
inequality showing the wind speeds for
which a hurricane warning is issued.

3. EXERCISE Jumping rope can burn 4. TRAVEL The speed limit on highways in
600 Calories per hour. Write and solve Florida is 70 miles per hour. Write and
an inequality to find the number of solve an inequality to find how long
hours of jumping rope that it would will it take you to travel the 105 miles
take for you to burn at least from Orlando to St. Augustine if you
450 Calories. travel at or below the speed limit.

5. SHOPPING Suppose a DVD costs $19 6. TRAVEL Jeanine has driven 35 miles of
and a CD costs $14. Write an inequality a 230-mile trip. If she is traveling at or
to find how many CDs you can buy below the 65-mile-per-hour speed limit,
along with one DVD if you have $65 to much longer can Jeanine expect to
spend. Solve the inequality. spend completing the trip?

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Functions and Linear Equations
1. TECHNOLOGY The fee for your pager 2. TECHNOLOGY Use the information in
service is $22 per month. Make a Exercise 1 to write an equation in
function table that shows your total which x represents the number of
charge for 1, 2, 3, and 4 months of months and y represents the total
service. charge. Then graph the equation.
y

132

88

44

x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

3. TRAINS Between Hiroshima and 4. TRAINS Use the information in

Kokura, Japan, the bullet train Exercise 3 to write an equation in
averages a speed of 164 miles per hour, which x represents the number of hours
which is the fastest scheduled train and y represents the distance. Then
service in the world. Make a function graph the equation.
table that shows the distance traveled y
at that speed in 1, 2, 3, and 4 hours.
984

656

328

x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

5. GEOMETRY The formula for the volume 6. ANIMALS The fastest insect in the
of a rectangular prism whose base has world is the dragonfly with a top speed
an area of 8 square units is V  8h, of 36 miles per hour. Write an equation
where V is the volume and h is the using x to represent hours and y to
height. Graph the function. represent distance. Then graph the
V equation.
y
24
108
16
72
8

h 36

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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Lines and Slope
1. TRAVEL Suppose each of these functions 2. TRAVEL Use the data in Exercise 1.
was graphed on a coordinate plane. Find the slope of each line.
Which line is steeper? Explain.
Hours Distance (mi)
Traveled Scott Amparo
1 55 60
2 110 120
3 165 180
4 220 240

3. TRAVEL What does the slope of each 4. NATIONAL PARKS Which section of the

Lesson 4–7
line that you found in Exercise 2 graph shows the least increase in
represent? recreational visits? Describe the slope
of this part of the graph.
Great Smoky Mountains
National Park
10.50 y 10.18
Recreational Visits

10.00
10.28
(millions)

9.50 9.97 9.99

9.00
9.20
x
0
1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

Year

1997 to 1998; positive and close

5. NATIONAL PARKS Use the graph in 6. NATIONAL PARKS Use the graph in
Exercise 4. What happened to Exercise 4. What happened to the sales
recreational visits between 1998 and between 2000 and 2001? Describe the
1999? Describe the slope of this part of slope of this part of the graph.
the graph.

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Prime Factorization
1. FLAG When the United States had 48 2. MARCHING BAND A marching band has
states, the stars were arranged in a 72 members. If they are to march with
6
8 rectangular arrangement. What an equal number of people in each row,
other rectangular arrangements of 48 state all possible numbers of rows and
stars are possible? numbers of people in each row.

3. BIOLOGY The human face uses 14 4. BASEBALL CARDS Jack is arranging his
muscles to smile and 43 to frown. prized baseball cards in a frame. If he
Which number is prime and which is has 24 cards, in how many different
composite? Explain. numbers of rows and columns can he
display them if each row has the same

Lesson 5–1
number of cards?

5. HISTORY It is estimated that Sophocles, 6. ANATOMY There are 230 joints in the
an ancient Greek dramatist, died in human body. Find the prime
406 B.C. Find the prime factorization of factorization of 230.
406.

7. PHOTOS Bill is arranging 108 photos to 8. ART The supreme example of

display on a poster board for a Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci,
presentation. If he arranges an equal passed away in 1519 A.D. Is 1519 a
number of photos in each row, in how composite or prime number? Explain.
many different numbers of rows and
columns can he arrange the photos?

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Greatest Common Factor

1. TABLE TENNIS Rebecca has 20 table 2. TUMBLING Mr. Nicolet wants to

tennis balls and 16 table tennis organize equal-sized groups of boys and
paddles. She wants to sell packages of girls for tumbling exercises. If there are
balls and paddles bundled together. 12 boys and 18 girls and each group is
What is the greatest number of all boys or all girls, what is the largest
packages she can sell with no leftover size group he can organize?
balls or paddles?

3. BAKE SALE Volunteers at a bake sale 4. DOG TREATS Krista wants to give her
want to sell slices of banana nut bread dog a special treat. She has 81 dog
and raisin bread packaged together. bones and 54 pieces of beef jerky. If she
They have 63 slices of banana nut wants to give her dog the same number
bread and 45 slices of raisin bread, and of treats every day, what is the greatest
they plan to use all the bread. What is number of days she can feed the dog
the greatest number of packages they these treats? How many of each type
can put together? How many slices of should she give the dog?
each type of bread are in a package?

5. FRUIT TREES Mr. Farber has 84 pear 6. BOARDS A scouting troop has three
trees and 180 apple trees. He wants to boards of lengths 14 feet, 28 feet, and
plant the trees in rows of equal width. 21 feet. If the boards must be cut to
Find the most trees that can be planted produce equal-sized pieces, what is the
in a row if each row has only one type longest piece that can be cut with no
of tree. waste?

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Simplifying Fractions
1. EXAM Mr. Bonilla gave an exam and 20 2. GASOLINE Aisha filled her car’s
out of 25 students passed the exam. 24-gallon gas tank. She took a short
What fraction of the students passed trip and used 8 gallons of gas. What
the exam? Write the answer in simplest fraction of the full gas tank was used
form. on the trip? Write the answer in
simplest form.
1

3

3. BICYCLES A local community college has 4. PRESIDENTS Of the first 22 presidents, 8

860 students. Of these 860 students, were from New York. Write the number
220 ride bicycles. Write the number of of presidents from New York as a
bike riders as a fraction of the number fraction of the first 22 presidents in
of students at the college in simplest simplest form.
form. 4

11

5. TIME Ten hours is what part of a day? 6. MEASUREMENT Eighteen inches is what

Lesson 5–3
Write the fraction in simplest form. part of a yard? Write the fraction in
simplest form.
1

2

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Fractions and Decimals
1. BOYS AND GIRLS There were 6 girls and 2. CATS In a neighborhood of 72 families,
18 boys in Mrs. Johnson’s math class. 18 families own one or more cats. Write
Write the number of girls as a fraction the number of families who own one or
of the number of boys. Then write the more cats as a fraction. Then write the
fraction as a repeating decimal. fraction as a decimal.
18
; 0.25
72

3. CELLULAR PHONES In Italy, about 74 4. FRUITS Ms. Rockwell surveyed her

of every 100 people use cellular class and found that 12 out of the
telephones. Write the fraction of 30 students chose peaches as their
cellular phone users in Italy. Then favorite fruit. Write the number of
write the fraction as a decimal. students who chose peaches as a
fraction in simplest form. Then write
the fraction as a decimal.
2
; 0.4
5

5. TRAVEL Tora took a short trip of 6. VOTING In a recent school election,

320 miles. He stopped to have lunch 208 of the 325 freshmen voted in their
after he had driven 120 miles. Write class election. Write the fraction of
the fraction of the trip he had freshmen who voted. Then write the
completed by lunch in simplest form. fraction as a decimal.
Then write the fraction as a decimal. 208
; 0.64
325

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Fractions and Percents

Lesson 5–5
1. LUNCHES Three out of every 10 2. COMPUTERS In 2000, 57 out of every
students in Mr. Chan’s class bring their 100 school age children (ages 6 to 17
lunch to school. Write this ratio as a years) had access to a computer both at
percent. home and at school. Write this ratio as
a percent.

3. SALES TAX In one town, the sales tax is 4. HYGEINE Ms. Agosto surveyed her class
8%. Write this percent as a fraction in and found that 15 out of 30 students
simplest form. brushed their teeth more than twice a
day. What percent of students brushed
more than twice a day?

5. DISCOUNT A local retail store was 6. SPACE FLIGHT About 64% of all
having a sale and offered all their individuals who have flown in space
merchandise at a 25% discount. Write from 1961 to 2001 are from the United
this percent as a fraction in simplest States. Write this percent as a fraction
form. in simplest form.
16

25

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Percents and Decimals
1. AREA New Mexico’s land area is about 2. SCALE MODEL A scale model of a
0.03 of the total area of the United building is 0.25 the actual size. What
States. What percent is New Mexico’s percent of the actual size of the
land area of the total area of the building is the model?
United States?

3. NFL COACHES Don Shula ranks among 4. SOFTBALL Jenny’s batting average is
the most successful coaches in the 0.346. Write the decimal as a percent.
National Football League. In his career,
he won 0.665 of his games. Write the
decimal as a percent.

5. VITAMINS A multiple vitamin contains 6. BASKETBALL Tao makes 74% of his free
450 milligrams of calcium. This is 45% throws. Write the percent as a decimal.
of the recommended daily allowance.
Write the percent as a decimal.

7. SALES TAX The sales tax in a town is 8. FIELD TRIP In Ms. Silver’s English class,
7.25%. Write the percent as a decimal. 201% of the students signed up to visit
4
a local museum. Write the percent as a
decimal.

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Least Common Multiple

1. PROMOTION In a promotion for a local 2. WORK Alano and Abey both work at
delicatessen, every eighth customer will night. Alano has every fourth night off
get a free sandwich and every sixth and Abey has every sixth night off. If
customer will get a free drink. Which they are both off tonight, how long will
customer will be first to get both a free it be before they are both off again?
sandwich and a free drink?

Lesson 5–7
3. RADIO A radio station is giving away a 4. MUSIC Faith spent the same amount of
discount coupon to every twelfth caller money on cassette tapes as she did on
and a free concert ticket to every CDs. If tapes cost $12 and CDs cost
twentieth caller. Which caller will be $16, what is the least amount of money
first to win both the coupon and the she could have spent on each?
ticket?

5. BIKES Three bike riders ride around a 6. PAPER GOODS At a party store, paper
circular path. The first rider circles the cups come in packages of 15, paper
path in 12 minutes, the second in plates come in packages of 30, and
18 minutes, and the third in napkins come in packages of 20. In
24 minutes. If they all start at the order to have the same number of cups,
same place, at the same time, and go in plates, and napkins, what is the least
the same direction, after how many number of each that must be
minutes will they meet at the starting purchased?
point?

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Comparing and Ordering Rational Numbers

1. RAIN The amount of rainfall was 2. MOVIES Because he sees movies at his
measured after a recent storm. The local theater so often, Delmar is being
north side of town received 7 inch of offered a discount. He can have either
8
1
rain, and the south side received  off his next ticket or 30% off his next
3
13
 inch of rain. Which side of town ticket. Which discount should Delmar
15
received more rain from the storm? choose? Explain.
1 1
 off;   30%
3 3

3. TRACK Willie runs the 110-meter 4. FARMING Cassie successfully harvested

hurdles in 173 seconds, and Anier runs 7
 of her crop, and Robert successfully
5 12
it in 176 seconds. Which runner is harvested 58% of his crop. Which
11 person successfully harvested the
faster?
larger portion of his or her crop?

5. TRANSPORTATION My-Lien has enough 6. WOOD WORKING Kishi has a bolt

room in her truck to move 3.385 tons of that is 5 inch wide, and she drilled a
gravel. Her father has asked her to 8
hole 0.6 inch wide. Is the hole large
move 35 tons. Will My-Lien be able to enough to fit the bolt? Explain.
16
move all of the gravel in only one trip?
No; 5  0.6
Explain. 8

7. PIZZA In a recent pizza-eating contest, 8. STUDYING For a recent algebra exam,

Alfonso ate 13 pizzas, Della ate 13 Pat studied 18 hours, Toni studied
8 10 15
pizzas, and Delsin ate 14 pizzas. Which 1 hours, and Morgan studied 19
11
9 20 16
person won the contest? hours. List the students in order by
who studied the most.

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Estimating with Fractions
COOKING For Exercises 1–4, use the recipe shown below.

Lightning Creamed Potatoes

1
 cup water
3

11 teaspoon salt

2

33 cups pared potatoes, cut

4
in bite-size pieces
1
 cup finely chopped onion
3
1
 cup light cream
2

serves 6

Lesson 6–1
1. Daniel wants to serve twelve people the 2. Rosita wants to triple the recipe above.
Lightning Creamed Potatoes. Estimate Estimate how many cups of pared
how much salt he will need if he potatoes she will need.
doubles the recipe. 3  4 or 12 c

3. Alvin is going to serve six people. He 4. Katrina wants to make half of the
only has 11 cups of pared potatoes. recipe. About how many cups of
4
About how many cups of potatoes will potatoes will she need?
he have to borrow? 1
  4 or 2 c
2

5. CARPENTRY A board is 173 inches long. 6. TRACK Akira ran two miles. He ran the
4
Carmen wants to shorten the length by first mile in 73 minutes and the second
4
about 17 inches. Estimate the length of mile in 83 minutes. Estimate how long
8 4
the board after the board has been it took Akira to run two miles.
shortened.

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions
RETAIL STORES For Exercises 1–4 use the Fraction of
table at the right. It shows what fraction Type of Store
Stores in Mall
of the stores at a mall fall into seven 1
categories. jewelry 
30
8
clothing 
15
3
gifts 
20
1
electronics 
20
1
department 
15
1
shoes 
15
1
athletic 
10

1. What fraction of the stores are jewelry 2. What fraction of the stores are clothing
or gift stores? or electronics stores?
7

12

3. Which type of store has the greatest 4. How many more clothing stores are
number of stores? there than athletic stores? Write as a
fraction.
13

30

5. SEWING Jin wants to make a scarf and 6. RESTAURANT Ms. Malle owns a
matching hat for his sister. The restaurant. Typically, 1 of the
5
patterns call for 7 yard of fabric for the customers order fish, while 1 of the
8 4
scarf and 1 yard of fabric for the hat. customers order poultry. What fraction
2
How much fabric should Jin buy? of her customers order either fish or
poultry?

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Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
HEIGHT For Exercises 1–6, use the table below. It shows the heights of
five students. Write all answers in simplest form.

Student Height (ft)

Karen 51
6
Arturo 6
11
Felisa 4
12
Max 53
4
Silvia 51
4

1. How much taller is Max than Felisa? 2. How much shorter is Karen than
Arturo?
5
 ft
6

3. If Silvia stood on a box that was 15 4. What is the sum of Felisa and Silvia’s
6
feet high, how far would the top of her heights?
head be from the floor? 101 ft
6

5. The distance from the floor to Karen’s 6. Max grew 1 foot last year. How tall was
3 Lesson X–3
6–3
knee is 11 feet. What is the distance he last year?
4
from her knee to the top of her head? 55 ft
12

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Multiplying Fractions and Mixed Numbers

1. POPULATION If 4 of the population of a 2. READING Robin has read 3 of a book.
5 4
certain town is considered to be middle Mark said he had read 1 as much as
2
class and the population of the town is Robin. What fraction of the book has
2,000, how many people are considered Mark read?
middle class? 3

8

3. RADIO A radio station spends 1 of 4. SALE A bicycle is on sale for 2 of its
40 3
each 24 hours on public service original price. If the original price is
announcements. How much time is $354, what is the sale price?
spent on public service announcements
each day?

5. STUDENT POPULATION One sixth of the 6. SEWING Anna wants to make 4 sets of
students at a local college are seniors. curtains. Each set requires 51 yards of
8
The number of freshmen students is 21 fabric. How much fabric does she need?
2
times that amount. What fraction of the 201 yd
students are freshmen?
2

7. RUNNING It takes Awan 81 minutes to 8. STOCK Carl bought some stock at $25 a
3
run one mile. It takes Kate 11 times share. The stock increased to 11 times
5 2
longer. How long does it take Kate to its value. How much is the stock per
run one mile? share?

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Algebra: Solving Equations

Lesson 6–5
1. BIKING The speed s that Brandon can 2. BAND The woodwind section of the
ride his bike if he rides 3 of an hour middle school band makes up 1 of the
5 4
and travels 4 miles is given by the band. There are 9 members in the
equation 4  3s. What is Brandon’s woodwind section. Use the equation
5 1
speed? m  9 to find the number of members
4
m in the band. 36 members

3. SALE A coat is selling for 3 of the 4. SALARIES Aaron’s annual salary is 2 as
4 3
original price. The sale price is $180. much as Juanita’s salary. Aaron makes
The original price p can be found using $46,000. Find Juanita’s salary x using
the equation 3p  180. Find the the equation 46,000  2x. $69,000
4 3
original price.

5. ENDANGERED SPECIES In the U. S., 6. SALES TAX The sticker price p of a

14
there are   as many endangered
29 purchase with 1 sales tax and a total
10
species of birds as of reptiles. The
price (including tax) of $5.28 can be
number of endangered species of birds
11
b can be compared to the found using the equation p  5.28.
10
14 endangered species of reptiles What is the sticker price? $4.80
14
using  b  14. Find the number of
29
endangered species of birds.

7. SEWING Each costume uses 3 yard of 8. SAVINGS Jasmine saves $46 each
4
fabric. The number of costumes c that month from her part-time job. She
can be made using 111 yards of fabric saves 2 of her earnings. Her earnings a
4 5
can be found using the equation can be found by using the equation
3 1
c  11. Find the number of costumes equation 2a  46. Find her earnings.
4 4 5
that can be made. $115

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Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers

1. PUPPETS If a puppet requires 3 yards of 2. COOKING A batch of cookies requires

4
material, how many puppets can be 11 cups of sugar. How many batches
2
made from 9 yards of material? can Ty make with 71 cups of sugar?
2

3. FOOD Julia has 31 pounds of dog food. 4. SNOW CONES Roger has a 28-pound
2
She plans to split it equally among her block of ice for his snow cone stand. If
7 dogs. How much will dog food will each snow cone requires 2 pound of ice,
3
each dog receive? how many snow cones can Roger make?

5. APPLES Juan took 6 apples and cut 6. VACATION The Torres family drove
each into one-eighths. How many pieces 1,375 miles during their 61-day
4
of apple did he have? vacation. Find the average number of
miles they traveled each day.

7. RUNNING Hugo just joined the cross- 8. LUMBER Mrs. Shin has a piece of
country team and can run at a rate of lumber that is 115 inches wide. She
1 8
 mile each minute. How long will it plans to split the width of lumber into
7
take him to run a 5-mile race? 3 equal pieces. How wide will each
piece be?
37 in.
8

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Measurement: Changing Customary Units

1. WEIGHT The average weight of a baby 2. WATERFALLS The height of Niagara

at birth is 7 pounds. How many ounces Falls is 182 feet. How many yards high
is this? is it?
602 yd
3

3. GASOLINE The gasoline tank of a 4. TELEPHONES Portable telephones can

minivan holds 18 gallons. How many weigh as little as 8 ounces. How many
quarts is this? pounds is this?
1
 lb

Lesson 6–7
2

5. RECIPE A recipe for ice cream calls for 6. STATUE The Statue of Liberty weighs
56 fluid ounces of milk. How many cups 450,000 pounds. How many tons is
of milk is this? this?

7. TUNNEL The Ted Williams Tunnel 8. COAL The United States exports over
under Boston Harbor is 8,448 feet long. 200 billion pounds of coal. How many
How many yards is this? tons is this?

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Geometry: Perimeter and Area

1. PYRAMID The Great Pyramid in Egypt 2. WINDOWS Mrs. Johnson was planning
has a square base with sides 230 to caulk around the frame of her patio
meters long. Find the perimeter and doors that measure 5 feet by 61 feet. In
area of the base of the Great Pyramid. 2
order to help her to know how much
caulk to buy, find the perimeter of the
doors.

6 1 ft
2

5 ft

3. PENTAGON The Pentagon is a five-sided 4. FENCING Mr. Lao is planning to build a

building that houses the U.S. rectangular cattle pen that measures
Department of Defense in Arlington, 50 feet by 75 feet. Find the total length
Virginia. If each side of the Pentagon of fencing that he will need to
measures 921 feet, what is the walking purchase.
distance around its exterior?

5. CARPET Mr. Yuji plans on buying carpet 6. BORDER Mrs. Jackson is going to put up
for his bedroom that measures 12 feet a wallpaper border along the top of the
by 12 feet. So he will know how much walls in her dining room. If the dining
carpet to buy, find the area of his room measures 16 feet by 12 feet, how
bedroom. much border should she buy?
56 ft

7. LOBBY A hotel lobby measures 40 yards 8. MURAL An artist painted a mural

by 60 yards. Find the area and measuring 9 feet by 201 feet. Find the
2
perimeter of the lobby’s floor. area and perimeter of the mural.
1841 ft2; 59 ft
2

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Geometry: Circles and Circumference

1. PLATES A manufacturing company is 2. MONEY A dime has a radius of 81

2
producing dinner plates with a millimeters. Find the circumference of
diameter of 12 inches. They plan to put a dime to the nearest tenth.
a gold edge on each plate. Determine
how much gold edging they need for
each plate by finding the circumference
of each plate. Round to the nearest
tenth.

3. MERRY-GO-ROUND Mr. Osterhout is 4. PIZZA Find the circumference of a pizza

putting trim around the edge of a with a diameter of 10 inches. Round to
circular merry-go-round that has a the nearest tenth.
diameter of 15 feet. How much trim
does he need to buy to the nearest
tenth?

5. RACING A circular racetrack has a 6. TIRE A bicycle tire has a radius of 15

diameter of 1 mile. How far does a car inches. What is the circumference of
2
travel in one lap around the track? the tire? Round to the nearest tenth.
Round to the nearest tenth.

7. EQUATOR Earth’s diameter at the 8. SATURN The ring system around Lesson 6–9
equator is 7,926 miles. Find the Saturn has a diameter of 170,000
distance around Earth at its equator to miles. Find the circumference of the
the nearest tenth. ring system.

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Ratios
1. ELECTIONS In an election for sheriff, 2. DENTAL CARE Taru surveyed 60 dentists
210 people voted. If there were 1,260 and found that 48 favored the use of
possible voters, write a ratio to compare fluoride toothpaste. Write a ratio to
the number of people who voted to the compare the number of dentists
number of possible voters. favoring the use of a flouride
toothpaste to all dentists surveyed.

3. E-MAIL One morning, Mirna counted 4. SURFING One evening at his local surf
15 junk E-mails out of 21 E-mails in spot, Jeff counted 28 surfers in the
her inbox. Write a ratio comparing the water. Among those, he counted 21 that
number of junk E-mails to the total had hoods on their wetsuits. Write a
number of E-mails. ratio comparing the number of surfers

Lesson 7–1
with hoods to the total number of
surfers.
3

4

5. MUSIC A music company signed 12 new 6. COOKING Charlene poured 18 fluid

artists to its label in 2002. Out of the ounces of juice into a 1-quart pitcher.
12, 10 artists have hit songs. Write a Write a ratio comparing the amount of
ratio to compare the number of artists juice in the pitcher to the total capacity
with hit songs to the total number of of the pitcher.
artists signed in 2002. 9

16

7. BASEBALL In baseball, David has 8. DRIVING Sarah can drive 198 miles on
10 hits out of 14 at bats. Adam has 11 gallons of gasoline. On 6 gallons of
15 hits out of 21 at bats. For each gasoline, Rachel can travel 138 miles.
player, write a ratio that represents his Write a ratio that compares miles
total number of hits out of times at bat. traveled per gallon of gasoline for each
Are these ratios equivalent? car. Do the cars get the same mileage?

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Rates
1. TRAVEL During Sonia’s trip across the 2. BUDGET Steve was offered $5,025 per
country, she traveled 2,884 miles. Her year for a weekend lifeguarding job at a
trip took 7 days. Find a unit rate to local pool. He wants to know how much
represent the average miles she his monthly income will be at this
traveled per day during the trip. salary level. What is his rate of pay in
dollars per month?

3. MUSIC Randall recorded 8 songs on his 4. CARPETING Hana paid $1,200 for the
most recent CD. The total length of the carpet in her living room. The room has
CD is 49 minutes. Find a unit rate to an area of 251.2 square feet. What was
represent the average length per song her unit cost of carpeting in dollars per
on the CD. square foot? Round to the nearest cent.

5. SHOPPING An 8-ounce can of tomatoes 6. PETS Last month, Hao’s dog ate 40
costs $1.14. A 12-ounce can costs $1.75. cans of dog food in 31 days. How many
Which can of tomatoes has the better cans should Hao buy to feed his dog for
unit price? the next 6 days?

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Solving Proportions
1. COOKING Theo wants to use a cookie 2. MEDICINE In order to determine her
recipe that makes 36 cookies but he pulse rate, June’s nurse counted
wants to reduce the number of cookies 18 beats in her pulse in 15 seconds. At
to 24. If the recipe specifies using this rate, how many beats would she
2 cups of sugar, how much sugar should have in 60 seconds?
he use?

3. LABOR Ed earned $112 for 8 hours of 4. TRAVEL Rita traveled 1,250 miles in
work. At this rate, how much will he the first 3 days of her trip. At this
earn for 40 hours of work? rate, how long will it take her to
travel 1,875 miles?

41 days
2

5. MODELS An architect built a model of a 6. TESTING Mary is preparing for her

220-foot tall building he is designing. college entrance exams. In a practice

Lesson 7–3
The model is 25 inches tall and test, she answered 12 problems in
10 inches wide. How wide is the actual 30 minutes. At this rate, how many
building? questions can she expect to answer in
150 minutes?

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Scale Drawings
1. CARS A scale drawing of an automobile 2. MODELS A model ship is built to a scale
has a scale of 1 inch  1 foot. The of 1 centimeter:5 meters. The length of
2 the model is 30 centimeters. What is
actual width of the car is 8 feet. What
the length of the actual ship?
is the width on the scale drawing?

3. BUILDING Jose wants to build a model 4. TRAVEL Susan is driving to Mount

of a 180-meter tall building. He will be Shasta. On her map, she is a distance
using a scale of 1.5 centimeters  of 73 inches away. The scale of the map
3.5 meters. How tall will the model be? 4
1
Round your answer to the nearest is  inch  50 miles. How far must
2
tenth. Susan travel to reach her destination?

5. MAPS A map of Levi’s property is being 6. LANDSCAPING A pond is being dug

made with a scale of 2 centimeters: according to plans that have a scale of
3 meters. What is the scale factor? 1 inch  6.5 feet. The maximum
distance across the pond is 9.75 inches
on the plans. What will be the actual
maximum distance across the pond?

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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
INTERNET For Exercises 1–4, Most Popular Online Purchases

Lesson 7–5
use the table. It shows the
percents of online shopping Internet Users All Internet
purchases made by all Over 55 Users
Internet users and the computer software 43% 19%
percents made by Internet
books 43% 21%
users over age 55.
computer hardware 24% 13%
music CDs 29% 22%
clothing 19% 8%

1. What fraction of Internet users over 55 2. What fraction of all Internet users
bought clothing online? bought clothing online?
2

25

3. What fraction of all Internet users 4. Is the fraction of Internet users over 55
bought music CDs online? who bought books online greater or less
22
than  ? Explain. Less than;
22 50
  44%, and 43% is less than
50
44%.

5. FOOTBALL In 2001 San Francisco 6. COMPUTERS In Joan’s math class, there

quarterback Jeff Garcia completed 316 are 20 computers and 32 students.
out of 504 passes. What was his pass What percent of students will be able to
completion percentage to the nearest use a computer without sharing?
tenth?

7. VEHICLES In the town of Orick, 5 out of 8. DENTISTRY Dana has fillings in 4 of her
13 vehicles are trucks. What percent of 32 teeth. What percent of her teeth
the vehicles are trucks? Round to the have fillings?
nearest tenth.

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Percents Greater Than 100%
and Percents Less Than 1%
1. INTERNET Kilroy found that 0.70% of 2. BUSINESS Jocelyn expects her new
the documents from the Internet had software company to increase its sales
names that ended in “.txt” or “.text”. next year 23 times their present value.
Write this percent as a decimal and as 8
Write this increase as a percent.
a fraction.

3. UTILITIES City records showed that 0.8% 4. PETS Berto got a puppy 8 weeks ago. In
of new homes had no access to this time, the puppy’s weight increased
electricity. Write this percent as a 215%. Write this percent as a decimal
decimal and as a fraction in simplest and as a fraction.
form. 2.15; 23
20

5. MANUFACTURING The Quality 6. MEDICINE Estelle’s pharmacist said

Assurance department at a gear that the medicine Estelle was taking
company found that there were 3 contained no more than 1 gram of
defective gears for every 675 produced. 500
impurities per gram of total weight.
Write this as a fraction and as a
Write this fraction as a percent.
percent. Round to the nearest
hundredth.

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Percent of a Number
SPORTS For Exercises 1 and 2, use PETS For Exercises 3 and 4, use the
the graph below. It shows the results table below. It shows the pet ownership
of a poll of 440 ninth grade students. in Los Angeles, California. Assume that
Round answers to the nearest whole the same percents apply to a town of
number. 1,650 households. Round answers to the
nearest whole number.
Favorite Sports of Students

35.2% Pets in Household Percent

23.4%
at least one dog or cat 26.7
at least one dog 19.9
11.8%
8.9% 7.4% 7.4% 5.9% at least one cat 13
at least one dog and one cat 6.19
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Lesson 7–7
1. Write a proportion that can be used to 2. How many students surveyed chose
find how many students surveyed chose basketball as their favorite sport?
hockey as their their favorite sport.
Then solve.

3. Write a proportion that can be used to 4. How many households have at least
find how many households have at one dog or cat?
least one dog. Then solve.

5. VOTING Going into a recent election, 6. COLLEGE A local college recently

only about 62% of people old enough to reported that enrollment increased to
vote were registered. In a community of 108% percent of last year. If enrollment
about 55,200 eligible voters, how many last year was at 17,113, about how
people are registered? many students enrolled this year?
Round to the nearest whole number.

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The Percent Proportion
1. DRIVING David installed a device on his 2. POPULATION The number of students at
car that guaranteed to increase his gas Marita’s school decreased to 98% of last
mileage by 15%. He currently gets year’s number. Currently, there are
22 miles per gallon. How much will the 1,170 students. How many students
gas mileage increase after installing were there last year? Round to the
the device? nearest whole number.

3. VOTING Yolanda’s club has 4. GARBAGE This month, Chun’s office

35 members. Its rules require that 60% produced 690 pounds of garbage. Chun
of them must be present for any vote. wants to reduce the weight of garbage
At least how many members must be produced to 85% of the weight
present to have a vote? produced this month. What is the
target weight for the garbage produced
next month?

5. SALARIES Alma just received a 6% raise 6. SPORTS Sally’s soccer team played
in salary. Before the raise, she was 25 games and won 17 of them. What
making $52,000 per year. How much percent did the team win?
more will Alma earn next year?

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Percent and Estimation
1. ORCHESTRA The orchestra at Millard 2. RESTAURANTS In one west coast city,
Middle School has 120 members. Of 34% of the restaurants are on the river.
these, 17% are eighth-grade students. The city has 178 restaurants. Estimate
Estimate the number of eighth-grade the number of restaurants that are on
students in the orchestra. the river.
1
  180  60 restaurants
3

3. FARMING Rhonda planted green beans 4. HOTELS At the Eastward Inn hotel, 47%
on 67% of her farm. Rhonda’s farm has of the rooms face the pool. The hotel
598 acres of land. Estimate the number has 92 rooms. Estimate the number of
of acres of green beans on Rhonda’s rooms that face the pool.
farm.

Lesson 8–1
1
  90  45 rooms
2

5. TREES The students in Leon’s seventh 6. BOOKS Jenna has read 0.7% of a book.
grade science class determined that If the book has 431 pages, estimate the
42% of the trees at a local park are number of pages Jenna has read.
pine trees. If there are 632 trees in the
park, about how many of them are pine and 2 · 4.2  2.8 pages
trees? 3

7. FITNESS At the office where Mika 8. PETS Of all seventh grade students at
works, 40% of the 18 employees Hart Middle School, 0.3% of the
exercise at least three times a week. students own a pet iguana. If there are
Estimate the number of people who 610 seventh grade students at Hart,
exercise at least three times a week. about how many own pet iguanas?

and 1 · 6  2 students

3

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The Percent Equation
1. DINING Jonas and Linda’s restaurant 2. CHESS The Briarwood Middle School
bill comes to $23.40. They are planning chess club has 55 members. 22 of the
to tip the waiter 15% of their bill. How members are in seventh grade. What
much money should they leave for a percent of the members of the chess
tip? club are in seventh grade?

3. TENNIS In the city of Springfield, 75% 4. COLLEGE There are 225 students in
of the parks have tennis courts. If 15 eighth grade at Jefferson Middle
parks have tennis courts, how many School. A survey shows that 64% of
parks does Springfield have altogether? them are planning to attend college.
How many Jefferson eighth grade
students are planning to attend
college?

5. BASEBALL In the 2001 season, the 6. HOUSING In the Stoneridge apartment

Chicago Cubs won 88 out of 162 games. complex, 35% of the apartments have
What percent of games did the Cubs one bedroom. If there are 49 one-
win? Round to the nearest tenth if bedroom apartments, what is the total
necessary. number of apartments at Stoneridge?

7. SPACE On Mars, an object weighs 38% 8. FOOTBALL In the 2001 season,

as much as on Earth. How much would quarterback Matt Hasselbeck of the
a person who weighs 165 pounds on Seattle Seahawks had 8 passes
Earth weigh on Mars? intercepted out of 321 attempts. What
percent of Matt Hasselbeck’s passes
were intercepted? Round to the nearest
tenth if necessary.

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Using Statistics to Predict
1. SHOES The table shows the results of a 2. ACTIVITIES Of the students listed as
survey in which seventh graders were members of a high school academic
asked how many pairs of shoes they team, 75% were involved in sports,
own. Predict how many of the 632 speech, music or debate. If 111 students
seventh graders at Seneca West Middle were listed as part of the teams, how
School own more than 7 pairs of shoes. many were involved in sports, speech,
Shoes Percent music, or debate?

3 or less 10%
4 20%
5 21%
6 22%
7 19%
more than 7 8%
about 51 seventh graders

3. MOVIEGOERS A research study found 4. HAIR A survey showed that 37% of

that about 63% of people 18 or older people 12 to 17 years old use hair gel.
who go to the movies at least once a Predict how many of the 30 students in
month own a personal computer. Out of Mr. Avalon’s ninth grade class use hair
500 people 18 and older who go to the gel.
movies once or more a month, how
many of them would you expect to own
a personal computer?

Lesson 8–3
5. GRADUATION A survey of first-year 6. INTERNET A recent survey conducted by
students at North Carolina State the Millard school district showed that
University showed that about 73% 87% of households of students have
expect to complete their degree in Internet access at home. If there are
4 years. If there are 3,333 first-year 19,000 Millard households, how many
students, how many of them expect to have Internet access?
complete their degree in 4 years?

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Percent of Change
1. SHOES A popular brand of running 2. CLUBS Last year the backgammon club
shoes costs a local store $68 for each had 30 members. This year the club has
pair. If the store sells the shoes for 24 members. Find the percent of
$119, what is the percent of increase in decrease in the number of members.
the price?

3. READING In the seventh grade, Rachel 4. VOTES Last year 762 students voted in
read 15 books. In the eighth grade, she the student council election at San
read 18 books. Find the percent of Bruno Middle School. This year 721
increase in the number of books Rachel students voted. To the nearest tenth,
read. what was the percent of change in the
number of students that voted?

5. HEIGHT When Hugo was 9 years old he 6. PLANTS Alicia planted 45 tulip bulbs
was 56 inches tall. Hugo is now 12 last year. This year she plans to plant
years old and he is 62 inches tall. Find 65 bulbs. Find the percent of increase
the percent of increase in Hugo’s height in the number of tulip bulbs to the
to the nearest tenth. nearest tenth.

7. PICTURES The 2002 yearbook at 8. POPULATION In 1990, there were

Middleton Middle School had 236 4,298,000 Mexican immigrants living in
candid pictures of students. The 2001 the United States. In 2000 this number
yearbook had 214 candid pictures of had increased to 7,858,000. Find the
students. To the nearest tenth, what percent of increase to the nearest
was the percent of change in the tenth.
number of candid student pictures?

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Sales Tax and Discount

Lesson 8–5
1. SKATEBOARDS Ines wants to buy a 2. PRETZELS The Spanish club sold hot
skateboard but she does not know if pretzels as a fund-raiser. The pretzels
she has enough money. The price of the normally sold for $1.50, but near the
skateboard is $85 and the sales tax is end of the sale they wanted to sell as
6%. What will be the total cost of the many as possible, so they reduced the
skateboard? price by 30%. What was the new price
for a hot pretzel?

3. COMPUTERS Andrea ordered a 4. BOOKS Nate went shopping at a

computer on the Internet. The bookstore. The price of the book he
computer cost $1,499 plus 71% sales selected was $14.95, but it had a sale
2
sticker on it. When he paid for the
tax. What was the total amount Andrea
book, he was charged $12.71 before
paid for her computer?
sales tax was added. What was the
percent of discount to the nearest
percent?

5. CELL PHONES Justin is buying a cell 6. MAGAZINES Ivan bought two magazines
phone that has a regular price of for $4.95 each. If the sales tax was
$149. The cell phone is on sale for 15% 6.75%, what was the total amount that
off the regular price. What will be the he paid for the magazines?
sale price?

7. MOVIES A video store is having a sale 8. MODELS The original price of a

in which DVDs are on sale for 20% off. collectible model airplane is $115. The
During this sale, what is the cost of discounted price is $99. What is the
three DVDs that regularly cost $16.99? percent of discount to the nearest
percent?

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Simple Interest
1. SAVINGS ACCOUNT How much interest 2. INVESTMENTS Terry invested $2,200 in
will Hannah earn in 4 years if she the stock market for 2 years. If the
deposits $630 in a savings account at investment earned 12% simple interest,
6.5% simple interest? how much money did Terry earn in
interest in 2 years?

3. SAVINGS ACCOUNT Malik deposited 4. INHERITANCE Kelli Rae’s inheritance

$1,050 in a savings account, and it from her great-grandmother was
earned $241.50 in simple interest after $220,000 after taxes. If Kelli Rae
four years. Find the interest rate on invests this money in a savings account
Malik’s savings account. that earns $18,260 in simple interest
every year, what is the interest rate on
her account?

5. RETIREMENT Mr. Pham has $410,000 in 6. COLLEGE FUND When Melissa was born,
a retirement account that earns 3.85% her parents put $8,000 into a college
simple interest each year. Find the fund account that earned 9% simple
amount earned each year by this interest. Find the total amount in the
investment. account after 18 years.

7. LOTTERY Raj won $900,000 in a 8. SAVINGS Mona opened a savings

regional lottery. After paying $350,000 account with a $500 deposit and a
in taxes, he invested the remaining simple interest rate of 5.6%. If there
money in a savings account at 4.25% were no deposits or withdrawals, how
simple interest. How much money is in much money is in the account after
the account if Raj makes no deposits or 81 years? $738
withdrawals for two years? 2

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Simple Events
COINS Susan opened her piggy bank and counted Coin Number
the number of each coin. The table at the right
quarters 15
shows the results. For Exercises 1–3, assume that
the coins are put in a bag and one is chosen at dimes 21
random. nickels 22
pennies 32

1. What is the probability that a quarter 2. What is the probability that a nickel or
is chosen? a dime is chosen?
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Lesson 9–1
3. What is the probability that the chosen 4. NUMBER CUBES Juan has two number
coin is worth more than 5 cents? cubes, each with faces numbered
1, 2, …6. What is the probability that
he can roll the cubes so that the sum of
the faces showing equals 11?
1

18

5. SKATEBOARDS Carlotta bought a new 6. CALCULATORS Jake’s teacher had 6

skateboard for which the probability of calculators for 28 students to use. If the
having a defective wheel is 0.015. What first students to use the calculators are
is the probability of not having a chosen at random, what is the
defective wheel? probability that Jake will get one?

7. VEHICLES The rental car company had 8. MUSIC Tina has 16 pop CDs,
14 sedans and 8 minivans available to 6 classical, and 2 rock. Tina chooses a
rent. If the next customer picks a CD at random. What is the probability
vehicle at random, what is the she does not choose a classical CD?
probability that a minivan is chosen? 3

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Tree Diagrams

1. GASOLINE Craig stops at a gas station 2. COINS Judy tosses a coin 4 times. Draw
to fill his gas tank. He must choose a tree diagram showing the possible
between full-service or self-service and outcomes. What is the probability of
between regular, midgrade, and getting at least 2 tails?
11
premium gasoline. Draw a tree First Second Third Fourth Sample 
Toss Toss Toss Space 16
diagram showing the possible Toss
combinations of service and gasoline
type. How many possible combinations
are there?

3. COINS In Exercise 2, what is the 4. EQUIPMENT The computer accessory

probability of getting 2 heads, then that Joanne is considering selling at
2 tails? her store comes in white, beige, gray,
or black and as an optical mouse,
mechanical mouse, or trackball. How
many combinations of color and model
must she stock in order to have at least
one of every possible combination?

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The Fundamental Counting Principle

1. SURFBOARD Jay owns 3 surfboards and 2. SHOPPING John is trying to decide

2 wetsuits. If he takes one surfboard which bag of dog food to buy. The brand
and one wetsuit to the beach, how he wants comes in 4 flavors and 3 sizes.
many different combinations can he How many choices are there?
choose?

3. LOTTERY To purchase a lottery ticket, 4. RESTAURANTS Miriam’s favorite

you must select 4 numbers from 0 to 9. restaurant has 3 specials every day.
How many possible lottery tickets can Each special has 2 choices of vegetable
be chosen? and 3 choices of dessert. How many
different meals could Miriam have?

5. ROUTES When Sunil goes to the 6. STEREOS Jailin went to her local stereo
building where he works, he can go store. Given her budget and the
through 4 different doors into the lobby. available selection, she can choose
Then he can go to the seventh floor by between 2 CD players, 5 amplifiers,
taking 2 different elevators or 2 and 3 pairs of speakers. How many
different stairways. How many different stereos can Jailin purchase?
different ways can Sunil get from
outside the building to the seventh
floor?

7. DESSERT For dessert you can choose 8. TESTS John is taking a true or false Lesson 9–3
apple, cherry, blueberry, or peach pie to quiz. There are six questions on the
eat, and milk or juice to drink. How quiz. How many ways can the quiz be
many different combinations can you answered?
choose from?

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Permutations

1. AREA CODES How many different 2. CARDS Jason is dealt five playing
3-digit area codes can be created if no cards. In how many different orders
digit can be repeated? could Jason have been dealt the same
hand?

3. PASSWORDS How many different 4. RACING All 22 students in Amy’s class

3-letter passwords are possible if no are going to run the 100-meter dash. In
letter may be repeated? how many ways can the students finish
in first, second, and third place?

5. LETTERS How many ways can you 6. PARKING The parking lot for a company
arrange the letters in the word has three parking spaces for compact
HISTORY? cars. The company has 8 employees
with compact cars. How many ways can
the compact parking spaces be filled?

7. SERIAL NUMBERS How many different 8. WINNERS There are 156 ways for 2 cars
6-digit serial numbers are available if to win first and second place in a race.
no digit can be repeated? How many cars are in the race?

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Combinations

Lesson 9–5
1. SNACKS A vending machine can display 2. MUSIC Each month, Jose purchases two
six snacks. If there are eight different CDs from a selection of 20 bestselling
kinds of snacks available, how many CDs. How many different pairs of CDs
different groups of six different snacks can Jose choose if he chooses two
can be displayed? different CDs?

3. TESTS On a math test, you can choose 4. RESTAURANTS The dinner special at a
any 20 out of 23 questions. How many local pizza parlor gives you the choice
different groups of 20 questions can of two toppings from a selection of six
you choose? toppings. How many different choices
are possible if two different toppings
are chosen?

5. TESTING In a science fair experiment, 6. MEETINGS Linda’s teacher divided the

two units are selected for testing from class into groups of five and required
every 500 units produced. How many each member of a group to meet with
ways can these two units be selected? every other member of that group. How
many meetings will each group have?

7. BASEBALL A baseball coach has 13 8. GEOMETRY Ten points are marked on a

players to fill nine positions. How many circle. How many different triangles
different teams could he put together? can be drawn between any three
points?

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Theoretical and Experimental Probability
HOBBIES For Exercises 1–3, use the TELEVISION For Exercises 5 and 6, use the
graph of a survey of 24 seventh grade graph of a survey with 104 responses in
students asked to name their favorite which respondents were asked about
hobby. their favorite winter activities.
What is your favorite hobby? What is your favorite winter activity?
Singing 1 Building a snowman 14
Hanging with friends 3 Snowboarding/skiing 69
Building things 1 Sledding 21
Bike riding 2
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
T.V. 3 Respondents
Computer 3
Roller skating 3
Sports 8
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Number of Students

1. What is the probability that a student’s 2. Suppose 200 seventh grade students
favorite hobby is roller skating? were surveyed. How many can be
expected to say that roller skating is
their favorite hobby?

3. Suppose 60 seventh grade students 4. MARBLES A bag contains 5 blue, 4 red,

were surveyed. How many can be 9 white, and 6 green marbles. If a
expected to say that bike riding is their marble is drawn at random and
favorite hobby? replaced 100 times, how many times
would you expect to draw a green
marble?

5. What is the probability that someone’s 6. If 500 people had responded, how many
favorite winter activity is building a would have been expected to list
snowman? Write the probability as a sledding as their favorite winter
fraction. activity? Round to the nearest whole
person.

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Independent and Dependent Events

1. SAFETY Eighty percent of all California 2. VEGETABLES A nationwide survey

drivers wear seat belts. If three drivers showed that 65% of all children in the
are pulled over, what is the probability United States dislike eating vegetables.
that all would be wearing their seat If three children are chosen at random,
belts? Write as a percent to the nearest what is the probability that all three
tenth. dislike eating vegetables? Write as a
percent to the nearest tenth.

Lesson 9–7
3. QUALITY In a shipment of 4. MARBLES A bag contains 6 green
50 calculators, 4 are defective. Two marbles, 2 blue marbles, and 3 white
calculators are randomly selected and marbles. Gwen draws one marble from
tested. What is the probability that the jar, and then Jeff draws one marble
both are defective if the first one is not from the remaining marbles. What is
replaced after being tested? the probability that Gwen draws a blue
marble and Jeff draws a white marble?
3

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5. DEMONSTRATION Ms. Morris needs two 6. SURVEY Ruben surveyed his class and
students to help her with a found that 4 out of 22 students walk to
demonstration for her class of 12 girls school. If two of the 22 students are
and 14 boys. She randomly chooses two selected at random, what is the
students. What is the probability that probability that both walk to school?
she chooses two girls? 2

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Angles
1. CLOCKS The time shown on the clock 2. AIRPORT The runways at a local airport
is 11:05. Starting at this time, are sketched in the figure. Classify
1
approximately what time will it be and
2 as acute, obtuse, right, or
when the hands form an obtuse angle? straight.

1
2

1 is obtuse;
2 is acute.

3. ALPHABET Which of the following 4. CLOCKS The time shown on the clock is
letters contain at least one acute angle? 12:07. After 20 minutes have gone by,

Lesson 10–1
will the angle formed by the hour and

AELW minute hands be acute, obtuse, right, or

straight?

obtuse

5. BALLET When a ballet dancer’s feet are 6. ARCHITECTURE The plans for a new
in first position, the heels are touching, aquarium call for several hallways of
and the feet are turned out. A dancer exhibits leading out of a circular main
with excellent technique can position room. Because of the size of the tanks
his or her feet so that they are nearly that will be used, the angle formed
in a straight line. Isabella is practicing between two adjacent hallways can be
her technique. Classify the angle her no smaller than 65. What is the
feet form as acute, obtuse, or right. maximum number of hallways that can
be built leading out of the main room?

Hallway

65˚
Main
Room Hallway

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Making Circle Graphs
LANGUAGES For Exercises 1 and 2, Category
Languages Spoken by the Most People
use the table that shows the Commercial and Industrial
number of people that speak the Language
Residential Speakers (millions)
five languages that are spoken Transportation
Chinese, Mandarin 874
by the most people in the world. Other
Hindi 366
English 341
Spanish 322
Bengali 207

1. Find the degrees for each part of a 2. Make a circle graph of the data. Which
circle graph that shows the data. three languages account for 41% of the
total?
Languages Spoken by the Most People

Bengali,

MILITARY For Exercises 3 and 4, use United States Military, Active Duty, 2002
the table that shows the number
Branch Personnel (thousands)
of people active in the United States
military in 2002. Army 486
Navy 385
Marine Corps 174
Air Force 368
Coast Guard 38

3. Make a circle graph of the data. 4. Which two branches taken together
United States Military Personnel Active Duty, 2002 account for almost half of the total?

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Angle Relationships
1. PYRAMIDS A side view of the Great 2. RAILROAD A map shows a railroad
Pyramid at Giza is shown below. The crossing a highway, as shown below.
sides of the pyramid make an angle of Which of the numbered angles are
52 with respect to the ground. What is vertical angles?
the value of x? Railroad

2 3
x˚ 52˚ Highway
1

1 and
3

3. RAILROAD Refer to the map shown in 4. SKIING A ski jump makes an angle of
Exercise 2. If m
1 is 64, what is the 27 with respect to the water as shown
measure of
2? below. How are the 27 angle and the
unknown angle related? What is the
value of x?

x˚ 27˚

supplementary angles; 153

5. KITES A kite string makes an angle of 6. GAMES In a game of pick-up-sticks, the

Lesson 10–3
48 with respect to the ground as last 4 sticks are shown below. Which of
shown below. The dashed line is vertical the numbered angles are vertical
and the ground is horizontal. How are angles?
the 48 angle and the unknown angle
related? What is the value of x? 3
4
1 2 5
x° 6
8 7

48°

7 and
8

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Triangles
1. TAILORING Each lapel on a suit jacket is 2. FLAGS A naval distress signal flag is in
in the shape of a triangle. The three the shape of a triangle. The three sides
angles of each triangle measure 47, of the triangle measure 5 feet, 9 feet,
68, and 65. Classify the triangle by its and 9 feet. Classify the triangle by its
angles. sides.

3. CARPENTRY The supports of a wood 4. MAPS The three towns of Ripon,

table are in the shape of a right Sparta, and Walker form a triangle as
triangle. Find the third angle of the shown below. Classify the triangle by
triangle if the measure of one of the its angles and by its sides. What is the
angles is 23. value of x in the triangle?
Ripon

38˚
30 mi 47 mi

104˚ x˚
Sparta Walker
30 mi

obtuse, isosceles; 38

5. HIKING The figure shows the Oak 6. LADDER The figure shows a ladder
Creek trail, which is shaped like a leaning against a wall, forming a
triangle. Classify the triangle by its triangle. Classify the triangle by its
angles and by its sides. What is the angles and by its sides. What is the
value of x in the figure? value of x in the figure?
Rocky Peak

0.8 mi 61˚ 1.2 mi

Oak Creek x˚

78˚ 9 ft
x˚
Meadow 1.1 mi Trail Head
66˚
4 ft
right, scalene; 24

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Quadrilaterals

Lesson 10–5
1. KITES A kite is shown below. What is 2. MAPS A map showing the road
the best name to classify the shape of connecting the towns of Pike, Hudson,
the kite? Explain. Placid, and Alton is shown. The road
connecting Pike and Hudson is parallel
to the road connecting Alton and
Placid. What is the best name to
classify the shape of the roads
connecting the four towns? Explain.
N

Pike Hudson

Alton Placid

trapezoid; Sample answer: Two

3. ART A picture frame is shown below. 4. SCHOOL SUPPLIES The side view of an
What is the best name to classify the eraser is shown below. What is the best
shape of the frame? name to classify the shape of the
eraser?

1 ft

parallelogram
1 ft

5. PARTY The front of a birthday party 6. TABLE The top of Mr. Bautista’s new
invitation is shown below. Find the coffee table is shown below. Find the
measure of the missing angle. measure of the missing angle.
120˚ x˚ x˚
PARTY! 60˚
60˚ 120˚
100˚
120˚

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Similar Figures
MODEL CARS For Exercises 1 and 2, use the following
information. A scale model racing car is 11 inches long,
3 inches wide, and 2 inches tall. The actual racing car 22 ft
is shown at the right.

1. How wide is the actual racing car? 2. How tall is the actual racing car? 4 ft

PHOTOGRAPHY For Exercises 3–4, use the given

information. James wants to enlarge a photograph that
is 6 inches wide and 4 inches tall so that it fits into the
frame shown.
30 in.

3. How tall must the frame be for the 4. Suppose James cuts 1 inch from
picture to fit? the width of the photo, so that it
is 5 inches wide, before he makes the
enlargement. How tall will the frame
have to be for the picture to fit?

5. MAPS A map below shows the towns of 6. BLUEPRINTS A blueprint for a house is
Dover, Butler, and Lodi. If the actual shown below. If the front of the house
distance between Dover and Butler is is actually 30 feet wide, how tall is the
24 miles, how far is it from Dover to house?
Lodi?
Lodi

14 in.
4 in.

Dover Butler 12 in.

3 in.
35 ft

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Polygons and Tessellations
1. ROYALTY The outline of a crown worn 2. ALCHEMY The symbol shown is one
by a king is shown below. Is the figure of the signs for salt alkali used in
a polygon? If it is, classify the polygon 17th-century chemistry. Is the symbol
and state whether it is regular. If it is a polygon? If it is, classify the polygon
not a polygon, explain why. and state whether it is regular. If it is
not a polygon, explain why.

yes; octagon; not regular

3Lesson 10–7
3. JEWELRY The symbol shown is often 4. SYMBOLS The 5-pointed star shown has
used to represent gems. Is the symbol a sides of equal length. Is the symbol a
polygon? If it is, classify the polygon polygon? If it is, classify the polygon
and state whether it is regular. If it is and state whether it is regular. If it is
not a polygon, explain why. not a polygon, explain why.

yes; decagon; not regular

5. STAIRS The figure shows a side view of 6. TESSELLATIONS Identify the polygons
a set of stairs. Is the figure a polygon? that are used to create the tessellation
If it is, classify the polygon and state shown in the figure.
whether it is regular. If it is not a
polygon, explain why.

triangle and hexagon

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Translations
MAPS For Exercises 1–4, use the map at
the right. Maple St.

Blonde St. N
Dodge St.

Pacific Ave.

Center Rd.

Kensington Ave.

New York Ave.

California Ave.
Elmwood Ave.

Delaware Ave.
Harrison St.

Main St.
1. Stanley’s school is located at the corner 2. After he goes to the library, Stanley
of Center and Elmwood. The library is goes to his Aunt Jeanne’s house at the
located at the corner of Dodge and corner of California and Harrison.
Delaware. Describe Stanley’s walk from Describe Stanley’s walk from the
school to the library as an ordered pair library to his aunt’s house as an
of the number of blocks. ordered pair of the number of blocks.

3. If a bus picks up passengers at the 4. Organizers of a walkathon want to map

corner of New York and Maple and out a route that will lead people from
drives 2 blocks south and 3 blocks the corner of Center and Kensington to
west, where does the bus end up? the corner of California and Maple.
Write a coordinate pair that describes
the most direct route.

5. GEOMETRY The figure shows an 6. BANKS Clarissa is waiting in line at

octagon plotted on a coordinate system. the bank. There are several people in
The figure is to be translated by 5 units line in front of her. Describe the path
left and 5 units down. Graph the Clarissa must take to get to the front
translated image of the figure. of the line if each time she moves up
y in line by one position is considered
one unit.
tellers

O x

Clarissa
1 unit right, 1 unit up, 3 units left
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Reflections
1. FLAGS The figure shows a flag similar 2. FLAGS The figure shows a flag similar
to the national flag of Denmark. How to the national flag of Switzerland.
many lines of symmetry does the flag How many lines of symmetry does the
have? Draw all lines of symmetry. flag have? Draw all lines of symmetry.

3. INTERIOR DESIGN An interior designer 4. ASTROLOGY The figure shows the

has been hired to decorate a room that astrological symbol for Sagittarius
has the shape of a regular hexagon. plotted on a coordinate system. Reflect
Before beginning work, the designer the symbol across the x-axis. Graph the
studies the symmetry of the room. How reflected image.
many lines of symmetry does the room y
have? Draw all lines of symmetry on
the figure.

O x

5. ARCHITECTURE A corporate plaza is to 6. ARCHITECTURE Use the information

be built around a small lake. Building 1 from Exercise 5. Suppose that a third
has already been built. Suppose there building is to be built as shown. To
are axes through the lake as shown. complete the business park, show

Lesson 10–9
Show where Building 2 should be built where a fourth building should be built
if it will be a reflection of Building 1 if it is a reflection of Building 3 across
across the y-axis followed by a the x- and y-axis.
reflection across the x-axis. Building 3 Building 1
y
Building 1
y

Lake
Lake
O x
O x

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Squares and Square Roots
1. FERTILIZER John bought a bag of lawn 2. GEOMETRY The area A of a circle in
fertilizer that will cover 400 square square feet with a radius r in feet is
feet. What are the dimensions of the given approximately by the formula
largest square plot of lawn that the bag A
3.14r2. What is the approximate
of fertilizer will cover? area of a circle with a radius of 3 feet?

3. MOTION The time t in seconds for an 4. PACKAGING A cardboard envelope for a

object dropped from a height of h feet compact disc is a square with an area

Lesson 11–1
to hit the ground is given by the of 171.61 square centimeters. What are
2h
formula t   
. How long will it take
32
the dimensions of the envelope?
an object dropped from a height of
500 feet to hit the ground? Round to
the nearest tenth.

5. GEOGRAPHY Refer to the squares 6. Use the figure in Exercise 5. How much
below. They represent the approximate larger is California than Nebraska?
areas of California, Alabama, and
Nebraska. Find the area of Alabama.

CA

NE
395 mi
277 mi
AL

225 mi

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Estimating Square Roots
1. GEOMETRY The diameter d of a circle 2. FENCING Carmen wants to buy fencing
with area A is given by the formula to enclose a square garden with an


4A area of 500 square feet. How much
d  . What is the diameter of a

fencing does Carmen need to buy?
circle with an area of 56 square inches?
Round to the nearest tenth.
Use 3.14 for
and round to the nearest
tenth.

3. OCEANS The speed v in feet per second 4. LIGHTING A new flashlight has a beam
of an ocean wave in shallow water of whose width w at a distance d from the
depth d in feet is given by the formula flashlight is given by the formula
v  32d
. What is the speed of an w  1.2d . What is the width of the
ocean wave at a depth of 10 feet? beam at a distance of 30 feet? Round to
Round to the nearest tenth. the nearest tenth.

5. SOUND The speed of sound in air c in 6. PROJECTILES The muzzle velocity v in

meters per second at a temperature T feet per second necessary for a cannon
in degrees Celsius is given to hit a target x feet away is estimated
approximately by the formula by the formula v  32x . What muzzle
c  402(T
 ) 273. What is the speed velocity is required to hit a target
of sound in air at a temperature of 3,000 feet away? Round to the nearest
25 degrees Celsius? Round to the tenth.
nearest tenth.

3,000 ft

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The Pythagorean Theorem
1. ORIGAMI Chee has a piece of paper 2. COMPUTERS In a computer catalog,
measuring 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches. If a computer monitor is said to be
she folds the paper diagonally in half, 19 inches. This distance is the diagonal
how long is the folded side? Round to distance across the screen. If the screen
the nearest tenth. is 10 inches high, what is the width of
the screen? Round to the nearest tenth.

3. ANTENNAS A wire 10 meters long is 4. RAMPS Crystal wants to build a ramp

supporting a utility pole. The wire is that will rise 4 feet over a horizontal
anchored to the ground and is attached distance of 20 feet. How long will the
to the pole 9 meters above the ground. ramp be? Round to the nearest tenth.
What is the distance from the bottom of
the pole to the point where the wire is
attached to the ground? Round to the x ft
4 ft
nearest tenth.
20 ft

10 m
9m

xm

Lesson 11–3
5. POOLS Salomon swims diagonally 6. FRAMES Rosa has a picture frame that
across his pool every day. If Salomon’s measures 12 inches by 18 inches. What
pool is 4 meters wide and 16 meters is the diagonal distance across the
diagonally across, how long is his pool, frame? Round to the nearest tenth.
to the nearest tenth of a meter?

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Area of Parallelograms

1. SAILS Joyce wants to construct a sail 2. SIGNS Pedro wants to make the sign in
with the dimensions shown. How much the shape shown and needs to know
material will be used? how much material will be needed.
What is the area of the sign?

25 ft Yard 30 in.
Sale

14 ft 35 in.

3. SHADING Alma’s engineering firm must 4. POOLS Tamika has designed a pool in
determine the area of the largest the shape shown. What is the area of
noontime shadow that a proposed the bottom of the pool if the surface is
building design will create. What is the perfectly flat?
area of the shadow?

20 m
30 m
56 ft

40 ft

5. CITY PLANNING Two parallel streets are 6. TARPS Neka wants to cut a tarp in the
cut across by two other parallel streets shape shown. What is the minimum
as shown in the figure, cutting off a amount of canvas cloth that he will
parcel of land in the shape of a need?
parallelogram. Find the area of the
parcel of land.

36 ft
Main Street 40 ft
e.

Av e .
s Av

rs o n
m bu

250 ft
J e ffe
C o lu

340 ft
Dresden Way

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Area of Triangles and Trapezoids

Lesson 11–5
1. GEOGRAPHY Arkansas has a shape that 2. PATIOS Greta is making a patio with
is similar to a trapezoid with bases of the dimensions given in the figure.
about 182 miles and 267 miles and a What is the area of the patio?
height of about 254 miles. Estimate the 15 ft
area of the state.

15 ft

8 ft

172.5 ft2

3. FLAGS Malila wants to make the 4. SIGNS Estimate the area of the yield
International Marine Signal flag shown sign.
which represents the number six. What 30 in.
is the area of the flag?

26 in.
30 in. 5 in.
100 in.

390 in2

5. TILING A ceramics company wants to 6. GARDENING Kinu wants to buy topsoil

produce tiles in the shape shown. What for a section of her garden that has the
is the area of the surface of each tile? dimensions shown in the figure. What
8.5 cm is the area of this section of Kinu’s
garden?
3.5 yd
8.5 cm

4 yd

7 yd2

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Area of Circles
1. POOLS Susan designed a circular pool 2. MONEY Find the area of the coin to the
with a diameter of 25 meters. What is nearest tenth.
the area of the bottom of the pool?
Round to the nearest tenth.
19 mm

3. DRUMS What is the area of the 4. PIZZA Estimate the area of the top of a
drumhead on the drum shown below? round pizza that has a diameter of
Round to the nearest tenth. 16 inches. Round to the nearest tenth.

14 in.

5. GARDENING Jane needs to buy mulch 6. UTILITIES What is the area of the top
for the garden with the dimensions surface of a circular manhole cover that
shown in the figure. For how much area has a radius of 30 centimeters? Round
does Jane need to buy mulch? Round to to the nearest tenth.
the nearest tenth.

5.5 yd

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Area of Complex Figures
ARCHITECTURE For Exercises 1–6 use Jaco’s 8 ft
preliminary design of his vacation house 4 ft 4 ft
at the right. Round to the nearest tenth if 4 ft 4 ft 4 ft 8 ft 4 ft
necessary.
4 ft
bedroom kitchen bedroom
16 ft 1 2 16 ft

12 ft

b
a
living
12 ft room 8 ft t
den h
16 ft r 16 ft
4 ft o
8 ft o
4 ft 4 ft 4 ft m
12 ft 4 ft
2 ft

Lesson 11–7
1. What type of figure is bedroom 1? Find 2. What is the area of the bedroom 2?
the area of bedroom 1. What figures did you use to find the
area?

3. What is the area of the bathroom? 4. What is the area of the living room?
What are the dimensions of the figures How many figures did you use to find
you used to find this area? this area?

5. What is the area of the den? What 6. What is the area of the kitchen? If Jaco
would the area of the den be if the adds a rectangular cooking island in
semicircular window were removed and the middle of the kitchen with
replaced with a flat window? dimensions 6 feet by 4 feet, how many
square feet of walking space will be
left?

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Area Models and Probability
GAMES Each figure represents a square dartboard. If it is equally
likely that a thrown dart will land anywhere on the dartboard, find
the probability that it lands in the shaded region. Round to the
nearest tenth.

1. 2.

2 in.
5 cm

2 in.
10 cm

30 cm
12 in.

17.5%

3. 4.

16 in.

11.3 in.
4 in. 4 in.

8 in.

12 in.

9.6%

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Drawing Three-Dimensional Figures
1. ARCHITECTURE The 2. MONUMENTS Since its completion in
Transamerica Pyramid, built 1965, Eero Saarinen’s 630-foot Gateway
from 1969 to 1972, towers Arch has stood above St. Louis.
above the San Francisco
skyline.

Draw the top, side, and front

views of the Transamerica
building.

Draw the top, side, and front views of

the Gateway Arch.

Lesson 12–1
3. GRAPHICS Dan is creating a computer- 4. HISTORY The Mausoleum at
generated image of a coffee cup. To do Halicarnassus is one of the Seven
this, he needs to enter the top, side, and Wonders of the Ancient World. Draw a
front views of the cup. Draw the views top view, a side view, and a front view
that Dan should enter. of the mausoleum without the chariot
statue at the top.

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Volume of Rectangular Prisms
1. PACKAGING A cereal box has a length of 2. FOOD STORAGE Nara wants to
8 inches, a width of 13 inches, and a determine how much ice it will take to
4 fill her cooler. If the cooler has a length
height of 121 inches. What is the
8 of 22 inches, a width of 12 inches, and a
volume of the cereal box? height of 101 inches, how much ice will
2
her cooler hold? 2,772 in3

3. TRANSPORTATION The cargo-carrying 4. PLUMBING Alexia’s bathroom has a tub

part of Billy’s truck has a length of in the shape of a rectangular prism
8.3 meters, a width of 3 meters, and a with a length of 1.5 meters, a width of
height of 4.2 meters. What is the 0.5 meter, and a height of 0.4 meter.
maximum volume of sand that Billy’s How many cubic feet of water can it
truck can carry? hold?

5. PACKAGING A box of tissues has a 6. GEOMETRY A pentagonal prism is a

length of 11.2 centimeters, a width of prism that has bases that are
11.2 centimeters, and a height of pentagons. Use V  Bh where B is the
13 centimeters. What is the volume of area of the base, to find the volume of
the tissue box? the pentagonal prism below.
B = 26.3 cm2

4.5 cm

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Volume of Cylinders
1. WATER STORAGE A cylindrical water 2. PACKAGING A can of corn has a
tank has a diameter of 5.3 meters and diameter of 6.6 centimeters and a
a height of 9 meters. What is the height of 9.9 centimeters. How much
maximum volume that the water tank corn can the can hold? Round to the
can hold? Round to the nearest tenth. nearest tenth.

3. CONTAINERS Tionna wants to determine 4. DESIGN Rodolfo is designing a new,

the maximum capacity of a cylindrical cylindrical drinking glass. If the glass
bucket that has a radius of 6 inches has a diameter of 8 centimeters and a
and a height of 12 inches. What is the height of 12.8 centimeters, what is its
capacity of Tionna’s bucket? Round to volume? Round to the nearest tenth.
the nearest tenth.

5. PAINT A can of paint is 15 centimeters 6. SPICES A spice manufacturer uses a

high and has a diameter of 13.6 cm. cylindrical dispenser like the one

Lesson 12–3
What is the volume of the can? Round shown. Find the volume of the
to the nearest tenth. dispenser to the nearest tenth.

1.7 in.

3 in.

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Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms
1. PACKAGING A packaging company 2. INSULATION Jane needs to buy
needs to know how much cardboard insulation for the inside of a truck
will be required to make boxes container. The container is a
18 inches long, 12 inches wide, and rectangular prism 15 feet long, 8 feet
10 inches high. How much cardboard wide, and 71 feet high. How much
2
will be needed for each box if there is
insulation should Jane buy if all inside
no overlap in the construction?
surfaces except the floor are to be
insulated?

3. ICE Suppose the length of each edge of 4. ICE Suppose you cut the ice cube from
a cube of ice is 4 centimeters. Find the Exercise 3 in half horizontally into two
surface area of the cube. smaller rectangular prisms. Find the
surface area of one of the two smaller
prisms.

4 cm

5. CONTAINERS What is the total surface 6. TOYS Oscar is making a play block for
area of the inside and outside of a his baby sister by gluing fabric over the
container in the shape of a rectangular entire surface of a foam block. How
prism with length of 5 meters, width of much fabric will Oscar need?
3 meters, and height of 2.2 meters?
2.3 in.

2.3 in.
6.1 in.

66.7 in2

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Surface Area of Cylinders

Lesson 12–5
1. PACKAGING What is the area of the 2. TIRES Betty wants to know the total
label on a box of oatmeal with a radius surface area of the tread on one of her
of 9.3 centimeters and a height of tires. If the diameter of the tire is
16.5 centimeters? Round to the nearest 18 inches and the width of the tire is
tenth. 5 inches, what is the total surface area
of the tire’s tread? Round to the nearest
tenth.

3. CANS A cylindrical can has a diameter 4. CANS A cylindrical can has a height of
of 6 inches and a height of 7.3 inches. 14 centimeters and a radius of 4.2
What is the surface area of the can? centimeters. Find the surface area of
Round to the nearest tenth. the can. Round to the nearest tenth.

5. MANUFACTURING How much sheet 6. PLUMBING How much steel is needed to

metal is required to make a cylindrical make a hollow pipe with a radius of
trash can with a diameter of 2 feet and 3 inches and a height of 15 inches?
height of 41 feet? Round to the nearest Round to the nearest tenth.
4
tenth. (Hint: Do not include the top.) 282.7 in2

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Precision and Measurement
FOOTBALL For Exercises 1–3, use the information about Quentin
Griffin.
University of Oklahoma running back Quentin Griffin ran 248 yards on the
ground against No. 2 Texas to earn the USATODAY.com Player of the Week
honors. The senior added two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to lift the
third-ranked Oklahoma Sooners past the Texas Longhorns 35-24.

1. How many significant digits are in the 2. What is the precision unit on a football
measurement of the distance that field? Would the distance measurement
Quentin Griffin ran? be more precise if the field was
measured in meters? Explain.

3. How many significant digits are in the 4. LAND SPEED On October 15, 1997, Andy
score of the game? Green set the land speed record of
763.035 miles per hour. How many
significant digits are in the
measurement of the land speed record?

5. TRACK The record for the men’s high 6. OCEANOGRAPHY On March 24, 1995,
jump is held by Javier Sotomayor the Japanese probe Kaiko recorded the
(Cuba), who became world champion depth of the Marianas Trench, the
with a distance of 2.45 meters on deepest point in the ocean, at
July 27, 1993, in Salamanca, Spain. 10,911 meters or 35,797 feet. Which
How many significant digits are in the expression of the measurement is more
measurement of the high jump record? precise? Explain.

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