Revision 17 Mr.

Bayoumy Problem Solving

1. The sum of four numbers is 783. One of the 5. The number of bacteria in petri dish 1# is A. Petri
numbers, a, is 25% more than the sum of the other dish 2# contains twice as many as dish 1# and is
three numbers. What is the value of A? represented by the value B. Petri dish 3# has 17
A) 348 more bacteria than the quantity in dish 2# and is
B) 435 represented by C. Which of the following
C) 520 expressions shows C in terms of A?
D) 585 A) C = 3A - 17
B) C = 2A + 17
C) C = 2A
D) C = A- 17
2. Jenny is on the school swim team and has swim
practice m hours in the morning and p hours in the
evening each day. The schedule is the same each
day. If the swims a total of k hours for five days, 6. For a school summer concert, one type of ticket
which of the following is the expression for M? costs 5$ and another costs 10$. The supervisor of
k −p the concert can sell at most 500 tickets, but the
A) gross receipts must total at least 3,000$ in order for
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k − 5p the concert to be held. Which of the following
B) systems of inequalities could represet this
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relationship?
C) k - 5p
A) { 5x + 10 ≥ 3000
D) 5(k - p)
{ x + y ≤ 500
{x≥0
{y≥0
3. If Claire paid k dollars for a computer that was 5 10
B) { + ≤ 500
only 20 dollars more than half the original price, x y
what was the original price, in dollars? { x + y ≤ 3000
A) k + 20 {x≥0
B) K - 40 {y≥0
C) 2k - 20 C) { 5x + 10y ≤ 3000
D) 2k - 40 { x + y ≥ 500
{x≥0
{y≥0
D) { 5x + 10y > 3000
4. The volume of a right circular cone is 33 cubic { x + y < 500
feet. What is the volume, in cubic feet, of a right {x≥0
circular cone with half the redius and twice the {y≥0
height of the cone?
A) 16.5
B) 33
C) 49.6
D) 66

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C(x) = 140,000 + 85x

A company that produces smart phones pays a

start-up cost and a certain amount of money to
produce each smart phone. The cost of producing x
smart phones is given by the function above. What
is the meaning of the value 85 in the solution?
A) The start-up cost
B) The selling price of one smart phone
C) The amount spent to produce each smart phone
D) The profit earned from the sale of one smart
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phone
Even though she is only twenty-seven years old.
Cherl is interested in beginning a retirement plan.
8. A kitchen appliance manufacturing company The graph above shows the value of a market fund
determines that the local cost C, in dollars, of investment compared to a Certificate of Deposit
producing n units of a blender is given by C(n) = (CD). Which of the following cannot be
30n + 2500. Which of the following statments is concluded by Cherl from the graph?
the best interpretation of the number 2500 in this A) At one year, the market fund is worth more
context? than the CD.
A) The cost of producing each unit B) The market fund shows exponential growth and
B) The total cost of producing n units the CD shows linear growth.
C) The cost that must be paid regardless of the C) At 20 months, the two funds have the same
number of units produced value.
D) The cost of producing 30 units D) The initial investment in each account was the
same

9. A learing therapist has shown that students can

increase reading levels by increasing required 1 3 1
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summer reading. She models the increase using the x x 7
formula y = 1.09x + 17, where x represents the Jill has employed two painters to paint the outside
current grade reading level and y represents the of her rental apartment. One of the workars paints
improvement after the program. Which of the three times as quickly as the other. Together they
following represents the meaning of 1.09 in the paint the apartment in 7 hours. If the equation
equation? 3
above models the situation, what does represent?
A) The difference between the students who use x
the program and those who do not A) The entire job if it were done by the faster
B) The incerease in the number of students using painter only.
the reading program B) The entire job if it were done by the slower
C) The incerease in the reading level plus a painter only.
constant of 17 C) The fraction of the job the slower painter
D) A 17% incerease in reading level completes in one hour.
D) The fraction of the job the faster painter
completes in one hour.

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12. A certain job can be done in 20 hours by 4 people. 16. The weekly salary S Samantha is given by S =
How many people are needed to do the same job in 7 * h * d + 75 where h is the numbers of hours she
10 hours? works every day and d is the number of working
A) 2 days each week. If Samantha is to be promoted
B) 4 with a salary increase, Which of the following
C) 8 terms must change?
D) 10 A) 7
B) h
C) d
D) None of the above
13. If pipe S can fill a certain water tank in 3 hours and
pipe U can empty it in 4 hours, how long, in hours,
would it take to fill the empty tank when both pipes
are open? 17. A certain business is marketing its product and has
A) 6 determined that, when it raised the selling price of
B) 8 its product, its sales went down. The number of
C) 10 units sold, P, is modeled by the equation P = 1200 -
D) 12 20s, where s is selling price, in dollars. Based on
this model, what is the decrease in selling price
from 700 units sold to 900 units sold?
A) 5
14. Cathy can do a job in 8 hours while Danny can do B) 10
the same job in 6 hours. If Cathy and Danny work C) 15
together for three hours, what fraction of the job is D) 20
left to be finished?
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A)
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1 18. The marketing deparment of a company estimates
B) the price P, in dollars, of a smart phone by the
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1 equation P = 500 - 25x over 10 years, where x is
C) the number of tears. What is estimates decrease, in
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1 dollars, each year?
D) A) 20
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B) 25
C) 100
D) 500
15. One soccer ball and two soccer shirts together cost
P dollars. Three soccer balls and four soccer shirts
together cost Q dollars. What is the cost, in dollars,
of one soccer ball and one soccer shirt?
A) Q + P
B) Q - 2P
C) Q - P
Q−p
D)
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19. 22. A smart phone company plans to produce and sell
9 p smart phones. The cost of producing p phones is
P = K + 40
2 given by 265,000 + 150p in dollars. The company
receives 400$ on the sale of each phone, so the
The equation above shows how the value of P revenue for selling p phones is given by 400p. For
relates to the value of K. Based on the equation, what value of p is the revenue equal to the cost?
which of the following must be true? A) 500
B) 840
I. When the value of K increases by 1, the value of C) 1060
P increase by 40. D) 1200
II. When the value of K increases by 2, the value of
P increase by 9
III. I. When the value of K increases by 4, the value
of P increase by 18. 23. Mr. Lee brought reading books to his class. If each
A) I and II only student takes 5 books, there will be 15 books left. If
B) I and III only 5 students do not take a book and the rest of the
C) II and III only students take 7 books each, there will be no books
D) I, II, and III left. How many books were brought to the class?
A) 140
B) 125
C) 120
20. A landscaper is designing a rectangular fountain D) 104
with a 4-foot-wide path around it. The equation A
= 4p + 64 will relate the area A, in square feet, of
the path to the perimeter p, in feet, of the fountain.
In the design, how many feet will the perimeter of 24. a worker has found that when cups of chocolate
the fountain increase for each additional square sold for $1 a total of 50 cups of chocolate sold each
foot of the path's area? day. For every 0.1$ increase in the price of a cup of
1 chocolate 1 less cup of tea was sold each day .
A) Which equation models the totel number collected?
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1 A) (1+x)(50-x)
B) B) (1+x)(50+x)
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C) 4 C) (1+0.1x)(50-x)
D) 64 D) (1+0.1x)(50+x)

21. For O.K theater tickets, a ticket for an adult is 5

dollars more than a ticket for a child. If a group of
6 adults and 10 children pay a total of 142 dollars,
what is the cost, in dollars, of a ticket for one adult
and one child?
A) 19
B) 18
C) 17
D) 16

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Numeric Response

1. A farmer has 200 feet of fencing to surround a

small plot of land. He wants to maximize the
amount of space possible using a rectangular
formation. The enclosed area will be against the
side of a barn so he only needs one of the lengths
of the rectangular area to be enclosed by fencing.
What is the maximum area that can be enclosed by
the fence (ignore the square unit label)

2. Kara needs three hours to mow and trim

Mrs.Tayler’s lawn. One day she asked her friend
Peter to work with her. When Peter worked with
her, the job took only one hour. How long would it
take Peter, in hours, to complete the job himself?

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3. According to the formula p = k + 81, if the value
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of p is increased by 16, how much does the value of
k increase/

4. Mr. Benjamin has brought grammer work books to

distribute to the students in his reading class. If he
gives each student 5 books, he will have 10 books
left over, and if he gives each student 7 books, he
will need an additional 20 books. How many
students are in the class?

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Revision 17 Mr.Bayoumy Problem Solving

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: B PTS: 1
2. ANS: B PTS: 1
3. ANS: D PTS: 1
4. ANS: A PTS: 1
5. ANS: A PTS: 1
6. ANS: A PTS: 1
7. ANS: C PTS: 1
8. ANS: C PTS: 1
9. ANS: B PTS: 1
10. ANS: A PTS: 1
11. ANS: C PTS: 1
12. ANS: C PTS: 1
13. ANS: D PTS: 1
14. ANS: B PTS: 1
15. ANS: D PTS: 1
16. ANS: A PTS: 1
17. ANS: B PTS: 1
18. ANS: B PTS: 1
19. ANS: C PTS: 1
20. ANS: B PTS: 1
21. ANS: A PTS: 1
22. ANS: C PTS: 1
23. ANS: A PTS: 1
24. ANS: C PTS: 1

NUMERIC RESPONSE

1. ANS: 5000

PTS: 1
2. ANS: 1.5

PTS: 1
3. ANS: 12

PTS: 1
4. ANS: 15

PTS: 1