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After using unit rates to determine the better buy, write the unit price of the better buy for your answer. Round your answer correctly to the nearest hundredth. $211.85 for 620 batteries $8.69 for 24 batteries - 0. The ratio of 1.2 to 43 is the same as the ratio of 4.8 to what number? - 172 Which of the following fractions is equivalent to 72%? - 18/ Which of the following is the largest? half of 92 one-fourth of 188 one-sixth of 276 - one-fourth of 188 Change the fraction (11/25) to a percentage. - 44% What number is 62% of 250? - 155 369 is 45% of what number? - 820 Your dinner bill was $36.00. If you leave a 20% tip, how much will the tip be? - $7. AirPods cost $139.99 in the store. What would your total cost be if the sales tax rate is 4.75%? Round your answer to the nearest cent. - $146. Three pounds of sugar cost $2.25. How much sugar do you get per dollar? Round your answer correctly to the nearest hundredth. - 1.33 pounds per dollar You are making a dessert and need to adjust the recipe. Your cookie recipe makes 3 dozen cookies, but you need 4 dozen cookies. If the recipe calls for 1 3/4 cups of oil, 2 1/4 teaspoons of vanilla, and 2 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon, how much oil, vanilla and cinnamon will you need for 4 dozen cookies? Numbers in answer choices are listed as cups of oil, teaspoons of vanilla and teaspoons of cinnamon - 2 1/3, 3, 3 ⅓ An employee's annual pay is $43,992 based on 52 weeks per year. Due to the economy, the company is having to cut back on the number of working weeks. If the firm cuts the work year to 48 weeks but keeps the same rate of pay, how much should the employee expect his/her annual pay to decrease? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. - $
If 32 of the 84 people who swim at the YMCA are children, what is the ratio of adults to children who swim at the YMCA? Write the ratio in lowest terms with a colon. (for example, 2:3) - 8: If the ratio of tourists to locals is 4:9 and there are 80 tourists at an event, how many locals are there? - 180 An election is over and a new city council member has been elected. The new councilwoman received 4 votes for every vote received by her opponent. The new councilwoman received 2956 votes. How many votes did her opponent receive? - 739 If six out of every thirteen trick-or-treaters that came to your house last Halloween were dressed as knights, what proportion of trick-or-treaters were not dressed as knights? - 7/ A jacket that originally cost $80 before any discount is on sale for 15% off. If the jacket is then put on clearance for an additional 30% off the sale price, what is the final price? - $47. The bill for dinner was $76.64. You left $14.36 for the tip. What percentage of the original bill was the tip? Round your answer to the nearest whole percent. - 19% Suppose chips cost 28 cents per ounce. If a bag costs $3.75, how many ounces are in the bag of chips? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth. - 13. It was recently estimated that homes without children outnumber home with children by about nine to seven. If there are 6,272 homes in a county, how many of them are homes without children? - 3, Kena is about to list her house as For Sale By Owner. What is the lowest price she can ask for the house if she wants to receive a minimum of $173,200 on the sale while still allowing for a 6% commission for her realtor? Round your answer to the nearest dollar. - $184, The stock price for TPJ was $55.46 in January. In February, the stock had increased by 6%, but in March the price fell by 6%. What was the price of TPJ stock in March? Round your answer to the nearest cent - $55. Group A contains 120 people. One-fifth of the people in group A will be selected to win $100 fuel cards. There is another group (B) nearby that will receive the same number of fuel cards, but there are 211 people in group B. What will be the ratio of non-winners in group A to non-winners in group B after the selections are made? Write your ratio as a fraction or with a colon. - 96:
The water in a pool is evaporating at a rate of 2% per day. If the pool has 19, gallons in it today, how many gallons will it have in 14 days? ROUND YOUR ANSWER CORRECTLY TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER OF GALLONS. - 14256 Two angles are supplementary. One angle is 68° more than the other. Find the measures of the angles. - 56, 124 The measures of two complementary angles are described by the expressions (13z + 5)º and (20z-14)º. Find the measure of the angles. - 44, 46 The measures of two supplementary angles are described by the expressions (11y + 12)° and (16y + 6)°. Find the measures of the angles. - 78 degrees 102 degrees Find the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a 37-gon. - 6300 The measure of an interior angle of a regular polygon is 150°. Find the number of sides of the polygon. - 12 A rectangular piece of land has dimensions 700 ft by 350 ft. Find the amount of fencing needed to build a fence around the perimeter of the land. - 2100 A rectangular piece of land has dimensions 1200 ft by 750 ft. Find the area of the land to be enclosed by a fence. - 900,000 ft^ Donald wants to enlarge the perimeter of an 24-by-36-inch picture by 80%. What will be the perimeter of the enlarged picture? - 216 inches A standard die is rolled. Find the probability the the number rolled is less than 5. - 2/ A standard die is rolled. Find the probability that the number rolled is greater than 6. - 0 What is the probability that a card drawn randomly from a standard deck of cards is a red eight? - 1/ What is the probability that a card drawn randomly from a standard deck of cards will be an ace? - 1/ Find the probability of a couple with three biological children having one girl and then two boys. - 1/ A sample of 400 adults found that 75 do not like cold weather. However, 92 of those studied said that they would like to learn how to snow ski. Based on this sample, if an adult is chosen at random, what is the probability that he or she does not want to learn how to ski? - 77/
A single letter from the word HAPPINESS is chosen. What is the probability of choosing a P or N? - 1/ Two dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is either 2 or 9? - 5/ What is the probability of selecting a nine or a club from a standard deck of cards? - 4/ Given a fair dice and a standard deck of 52 cards, find the probability of rolling a 2 and drawing the queen of hearts. - 1/ Three cards are drawn with replacement from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that the first card will be a heart, the second card will be a black card, and the third card will be a queen? - 1/ Suppose the probability of a candidate being elected is 0.10. What are the odds of being elected? - 1: Suppose that 5% of the time Alexa goes to the movies twice a week, 15% of the time she goes once a week and 80% of the time she doesn't go to the movies at all in a given week. What is the expected value for the number of times Alexa goes to the movies during a week? - 0. If the odds on a bet are 7:1 against, what is the probability of winning? - 1/ A bag contains 10 marbles. Four are purple, 1 is green, 2 are red and 3 are orange. Two marbles are drawn at random without replacement. Find the probability of drawing a green marble and then an orange marble. - 2/ A poll was taken of 1000 employees in a local business. The average price of cars owned by those surveyed was $32,000. Identify the population in the given scenario. - All employees In order to determine what type of pizza sells best, a researcher polls customers leaving a local pizza restaurant. - Convenience Find the median for the following group of data: 95, 95, 90, 42, 71, 95 - 92. Sarah knows that her first four test grades were 79, 73, 77, and 89. Find Sarah's grade on the fifth test if her final average is 80.2. - 83 If an adult male is told that his height is within 2 standard deviations of the mean of the normal distribution of heights of adult males, what can he assume based on the