Please take your time to attempt each question to the best of your ability. I will be reviewing the class answers to determine where we need to spend our time reviewing concepts.
On a separate piece of paper, keep track of any particularly challenging problems. The very last question will ask you to reflect back on the Pre-Test as a whole. Within your reflection please include up to 5 problems you felt were the most challenging for you on the Pre-Test.
Question 1
1.
How much money does Anna add to her bank account each month?
Question 2
2.
What is the area of Ted's deck?
Question 3
3.
A used car lot has 40 blue cars, 9 orange cars, 27 black cars, 11 red cars, 53 gray cars, and 60 white cars. What is the theoretical probability of a person selecting an blue car?
Question 4
4.
Marcus purchased an autographed baseball 10 years ago for $500. Now the value of the baseball has increased by 80%. What is the current value of the baseball?
Question 5
5.
An expression is shown below.
3 * (-4)2 ÷ -2
What is the value of the expression?
Question 6
6.
Pat spins the spinner one time. Which statement about the result of the spin is true?
Question 7
7.
Marvel Academy has a total of 276 students in 6th through 8th grade. A random sample of 53 students where surveyed. Of those surveyed, 37 students will be traveling for more than a week during summer vacation. Based on these results, approximately how many students out of the entire Academy will be traveling for more than a week during summer vacation?
Question 8
8.
Simplify: 4x – 5.2y + 6y + 7.9x – 8x
Question 9
9.
A piece of steel is in the shape of a triangle. One side of the triangle is 8 inches long. The lengths of the other two sides are equal and each is less than 8 inches long.
Question 10
10.
The triangle in question 9 has angles measuring 51º and 78º. What is the measure of the last angle?
Question 11
11.
Another piece of steel is also in the shape of a triangle. One side of the triangle is 6 inches long. The lengths of the other two sides are equal and each is less than 6 inches long. The lengths of the unknown sides of the triangle are whole numbers of inches.
What are all the possible lengths, in inches, of the unknown sides of the triangle? Explain the process you used to find all the possible lengths.
Question 12
12.
Which statement best describes a random sample of all students in a middle school?
Question 13
13.
Based on the line plots, which statement is true?
Question 14
14.
A painter charges $32.50 per hour plus $80 to paint a house. The painter painted a house for less than $805. Which inequality can be used to determine all the possible numbers of hours (x) it took the painter to paint the house?
Question 15
15.
Gordon made a mistake in his scale drawing. For which object did Gordon not use the same scale as he did for the other objects?
Question 16
16.
A tank contains 680 gallons of fuel. The changes in the number of gallons of fuel in the tank over three days are listed below.
–388 -190 +572 -231
How many gallons of fuel are in the tank at the end of the three days?
Question 17
17.
Which expression is represented by the number line diagram?
Question 18
18.
Dominic and John record how much dry food their pets eat on average each day.
Dominic's pet: 4/5 cup of dry food
John's pet: 1 1/4 cups of dry food
Based on these averages, how many more cups of dry food will John's pet have eaten than Dominic's pet will have eaten over 2 seven-day weeks?
Question 19
19.
Compare the mean, median, and mode gas mileage for Garrett's and Ella's cars.
Question 20
20.
What is the measure of angle SQR?
Question 21
21.
Solve the inequality:
3( -x + 3 ) < 27
Question 22
22.
Simplify: -7(b + 1) + 8(b - 3)
Question 23
23.
Which mathematical equation represents the following sentence?
Five less than one-sixth of a number is twelve.
Question 24
24.
What is the area of the trapezoid?
Question 25
25.
Greg is planning to rent a small truck to move from NYC to Philadephia. The cost of renting the truck is $20 per day plus $0.39 per mile.
a. Write an inequality that can be used to find the maximum number of miles, m, Martin can drive without exceeding a total cost of $100 for one-day rental.
b. What is the maximum number of miles Greg can drive?
c. Greg will be returning the truck back to NYC. Philadelphia is 95 miles away from NYC. Can Greg afford to rent the truck?
