Short Response Questions

Answer the following questions. Be sure to show all your work.

1. Susan bought 7 pounds of bananas and 5 pounds of apples. What is the total amount she spent on fruit?

$1.75 per pound $2.25 per pound

2. Write 28 as a product of prime factors.

3. What is the value of 3² + 4³ + 5⁰ ?

4. Evaluate 15 – (9 ÷ 3) + 2⁴ x 4.

5. What is the value of 6b ÷ 4, if b = 6 ?

6. Mr. Bond has $500 in his checking account after writing checks for $28.70, $35.20, and $21. What was his balance before he wrote the three checks?

Extended Response Questions

Answer the following questions. Be sure to show all of your work.

1. A container holds 24 cups of maple syrup.

A. What is the equivalent of this amount in pints?

B. What is the equivalent of this amount in quarts?

2. A salesperson at a clothing store earns a commission equal to 8% of

his total shares each day.

A. If the salesperson made $300 in sales, one day, what was

the total commisiion for that day?

Show your work.

B. If the salesperson made $32.00 in commission, what was the total amount of sales for the day?

3. Ann asked 48 classmates to choose their favorite type of movie. The

results of her survey are shown below.

Movie Survey

Type of Movie	Number of Students
Comedy	28
Adventure	11
Drama	6
Other	3

A. What fraction of the 48 students like comedy movies best?

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B. Write the fraction from Part A as a decimal.

4. Xavier had 4 baseball cards. He bought some packages that each

contained 8 baseball cards, giving him a total of 52 baseball cards.

this equation describes the situation:

8x + 4 = 52

Solve the equation to find x, the number of packages of baseball

cards Xavier bought.

Show your work.