1. Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.
1. 47,000 × 400 equals
A. 18,000,000.
B. 800,000.
C. 18,000,800.
D. 18,800,000.
2. In the percent increase or decrease problems, the portion is
A. the amount of increase or decrease.
B. 1/2 the original price.
C. the original price.
D. the new price.
3. The price of a baseball ticket at Yankee Stadium is 2·1/4 times the original price of a ticket at $60. What is the price of the ticket today?
A. $195
B. $150
C. $153
D. $135
4. At Best Buy a flat screen television with a regular price of $1,790 was reduced by $395. Assuming 800 customers purchased the television, what were the total sales to Best Buy?
A. $1,160
B. $1,161,000
C. $1,116,000
D. $116,000
5. Matt Kaminsky bought a Volvo that is 3·3/4 times as expensive as the car his parents bought. If his parents paid $8,000 for theirs, what is the cost of Matt's car?
A. $29,000
B. $26,000
C. $28,000
D. $30,000
6. Which of the following is not a prime number?
A. 24
B. 5
C. 19
D. 11
7. In a recent, local taste contest testing Coke against Pepsi, it was found that 3/5 of all people surveyed preferred the taste of Coke. If 7,500 people were in the survey, how many chose Pepsi?
A. 4,500
B. 3,500
C. 5,400
D. 3,000
8. Pumpkins at a local farm sell for $.49 per pound. Jim Ring spent $73.50. How many pounds of pumpkins did he purchase?
A. 110
B. 510
C. 150
D. 100
9. The cost of a regular price ticket to a Saint Louis Cardinal baseball game was $60. During the World Series, the price increased by 2/5. What did the fans pay?
A. $84
B. $69
C. $65
D. $80
10. Joe Jackson worked 8 hours on Monday, 4·1/4 hours on Tuesday, 6·1/8 hours on Wednesday, 7·1/4 hours on Thursday, and 8·1/8
hours on Friday. Calculate the total number of hours Joe worked for the week.
A. 33·3/4
B. 33·1/8
C. 32·3/4
D. 35
11. Jill traveled to Canada and bought a new lamp for $460 Canadian dollars. In U.S. dollars (to the nearest cent) this is equivalent to
A. $577.25
B. $480.66
C. $450.52
D. $517.77
12. Best Buy sold 638 iPads during the month of May for a total, including tax, of $296,963.48; what was the average cost to the consumer?
A. $470.00
B. $464.99
C. $465.00
D. $465.46
13. During the great recession that began in January 2008, average weekly claims for unemployment were 420,000. The normal weekly average during full employment is 122,000. How many more people were filing for unemployment in January 2008?
A. 542,000
B. 400,000
C. 288,000
D. 298,000
14. What is the first task in using the step approach to finding the greatest common divisor?
A. Divide the remainder into the divisor.
B. Use the observation method.
C. Divide the numerator into the denominator.
D. Divide the larger number into the smaller number.
15. 170% converted to a fraction equals
A. 170/1000.
B. 70/100.
C. 17/10.
D. 7/10.
16. The sales tax in Bill's state is 6%. Bill bought a Scion having a sales tax of $820. What was the cost of the car? Round to the nearest dollar.
A. $13,666
B. $13,668
C. $13,667
D. $13,665
17. The price of a Panasonic 3D flat screen television decreased by 1/5. If the original price was $1,500, what is the price today?
A. $1,000
B. $1,200
C. $1,800
D. $1,500
18. A trip to Portland, Oregon, from Boston will take 7·3/4 hours. Assuming we are two-thirds of the way there, how much longer, in hours, will the trip take?
A. 7/12
B. 27/12
C. 21/2
D. 17/12
19. Ace Landscape buys 100 shovels for $15 each. Ace sells all 100 shovels at $29.99. What is his profit?
A. $2,999
B. $1,499
C. $1,400
D. $1,500
20. The price of an iPod dropped from $299.99 to $180.55. What was the percent decrease in price? (Round to nearest hundredth percent.)
A. 39%
B. 39.81%
C. 39.82%
D. 39.80%
21. A machine at Staples photocopies 12·1/4 pages per minute. If the machine runs 700 minutes, how many pages will be photocopied?
A. 7,850
B. 8,750
C. 5,875
D. 8,575
22. Al Resse and Marci Rey received a total of $210,000 from a deceased relative's estate. They decided to put away $50,000 in a trust for their child and divide the remainder into 1/4 for Marci and 3/4 for Al. How much will Al receive?
A. $32,000
B. $10,000
C. $120,000
D. $40,000
23. Facebook's initial IPO was $38 per share. Arianna purchased 616 shares. Assuming a cost of $7.00 to purchase the 616 shares, what was Arianna's total cost?
A. $22,514
B. $23,408
C. $20,000
D. $23,415
24. An LCD flat screen TV at Best Buy increased in price from $900 to $1,200. What was the percent of increase?
A. 37·1/3%
B. 33·1/3%
C. 39·1/3%
D. 35·1/3%
25. Mia Wong bought a new Bose radio for $280. Bill, a friend of Mia's, can afford to pay only 3/4 as much as Mia. What is the most Bill could pay for the radio?
A. $70
B. $210
C. $190
D. $200