Make Up Copy of U1: Ch1 - 5 Point Quiz (2025) (3/24/2025)

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8 questions

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Choose any combination of questions that adds up to 5 points. Your score will be based on whether you get the questions right/wrong.  If the question says to show your work, you need to show it to get credit.

Note: If you want to do more than 5 points worth of questions to cover yourself in case you get one wrong, you can definitely do that!  The max grade is still 5 points.

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Instructions

Choose any combination of questions that adds up to 5 points. Your score will be based on whether you get the questions right/wrong.  If the question says to show your work, you need to show it to get credit.

Note: If you want to do more than 5 points worth of questions to cover yourself in case you get one wrong, you can definitely do that!  The max grade is still 5 points.

You MAY use:
My Notes
Your Notes
Other Formatives
A calculator

You MAY NOT use:
Google
AI
Another human
Your genius talking parrot or any other animals or otherworldly beings

The Tax Policy Center estimates that 43% of middle-income households will pay no federal income tax.

Write this percent as a fraction.

14 out of 18 students in the class have never filed taxes before.

Represent this value as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth. (Accurate rounding matters!!!)

The top 1.2% of taxpayers (in many cases, people with the highest incomes) paid nearly 29% of the total federal income taxes collected.

Write each percent as a fraction:
1.2% = _______ 29% = _______ 

1,590 of the 5,482 households in your zipcode filed their taxes by February 15.

By March 15, another 2,429 had filed their taxes.

What percent of households, rounded to the nearest tenth, have NOT filed by March 15?

You’re given the rational number ᠎᠎᠎᠎43/199. You can choose to add 10 to the numerator OR add 10 to the denominator. Which option will give you a SMALLER final number?

$2.34 out of Annette’s $65 bill at the grocery store was sales tax. Write this as a rational number (fraction), remembering that numerator and denominator must be integers, not decimals.

Kirsten thinks 27% of federal tax dollars should fund education, and Jackson thinks $0.25 of every tax dollar should go toward education. Express each as a rational number (fraction). Who supports more education funding?

Make Up Copy of U1: Ch1 - 5 Point Quiz (2025) (3/24/2025)

The Tax Policy Center estimates that 43% of middle-income households will pay no federal income tax.Write this percent as a fraction.

14 out of 18 students in the class have never filed taxes before.Represent this value as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth. (Accurate rounding matters!!!)

1,590 of the 5,482 households in your zipcode filed their taxes by February 15. By March 15, another 2,429 had filed their taxes. What percent of households, rounded to the nearest tenth, have NOT filed by March 15?

You’re given the rational number ​᠎​​᠎​​᠎​​᠎​43/199. You can choose to add 10 to the numerator OR add 10 to the denominator. Which option will give you a SMALLER final number?

$2.34 out of Annette’s $65 bill at the grocery store was sales tax. Write this as a rational number (fraction), remembering that numerator and denominator must be integers, not decimals.

Kirsten thinks 27% of federal tax dollars should fund education, and Jackson thinks $0.25 of every tax dollar should go toward education. Express each as a rational number (fraction). Who supports more education funding?

What’s one integer that could be used as the denominator of this fraction to make its value less than 10%?(There are many possible answers!!)

The Tax Policy Center estimates that 43% of middle-income households will pay no federal income tax.

Write this percent as a fraction.

14 out of 18 students in the class have never filed taxes before.

Represent this value as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth. (Accurate rounding matters!!!)

1,590 of the 5,482 households in your zipcode filed their taxes by February 15.

By March 15, another 2,429 had filed their taxes.

What percent of households, rounded to the nearest tenth, have NOT filed by March 15?

You’re given the rational number ᠎᠎᠎᠎43/199. You can choose to add 10 to the numerator OR add 10 to the denominator. Which option will give you a SMALLER final number?

What’s one integer that could be used as the denominator of this fraction
to make its value less than 10%?

(There are many possible answers!!)