Decimals - HSPT Math

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Anita is sewing a quilt made of 120 patches. She has sewn together 84 patches already. What percentage of the quilt has Anita sewn?

Answer

Divide 84 by the entire amount of patches 120 to find the percentage completed.

The answer is Anita has completed 70% of the quilt.

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Jenny is getting ready for school. She bought school supplies on a tax-free day. She bought notebooks for $1.25 each and crayons for $0.90 each. Jenny bought two more notebooks than crayons. She paid with a ten dollar bill and got $1.05 in change. How many notebooks did she buy?

Answer

Define variables as x = number of crayons and x + 2 = number of notebooks

To find out how much she spent, we subtract her change from what she paid with: 10.00 – 1.05 = 8.95

Then we need to solve the problem cost of notebooks plus the cost of crayons equals the total cost.

1.25(x + 2) + 0.90x = 8.95 and solving for x gives 3 crayons and 5 notebooks

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A runner runs 10.2 miles east, then 2.3 miles west, then 1.4 miles east.

How many miles did the runner travel from where he started? (How far east did the runner go)?

Answer

When the runner is travelling east, it's in the positive direction. West is the negative direction. So we can compute it by doing the operation 10.2 + (–2.3) + 1.4 = 9.3

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Kevin is looking at the blueprint of the house he is building. The scale is 1 inch = 5 feet. On paper, the master bedroom is 2.5 inches by 3 inches. What is the actual size of the bedroom?

Answer

The given dimensions must be multiplied by 5, so 2.5 inches becomes 12.5 feet, and 3 inches becomes 15 feet.

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If Susie bought a pair of shoes for , a shirt for , and a pair of pants for . How much did she spend in total?

Answer

You add all three values and you get .

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The menu of a local coffeehouse reads as follows:

Sandy orders some drinks for herself and some friends. She orders three cappuccinos, two iced teas, two cafe lattes, and an espresso. The sales tax is five percent. How much change does she receive back for a twenty-dollar bill?

Answer

The three cappuccinos cost:

The two iced teas cost

The two cafe lattes cost

The espresso costs .

Add these amounts to get the cost before tax:

The tax is five percent of or:

Add both values in order to obtain the total cost after tax.

As a result, the change from a twenty-dollar bill is as follows:

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What is ?

Answer

removed from results in the whole integer .

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Subtract:

Answer

Rewrite adding the correct number of placeholders and evaluate.

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Define an operation on the set of positive integers as follows:

If , then which of the following could not be equal to?

Answer

If , then the greatest common factor of and 20 is 10. 80 and 20 both have 20 as a factor - 20 is its own factor, since , and 20 is a factor of 80, since . Therefore, 10 is not the greatest common factor of 20 and 80, and 80 is the correct choice.

Of the other three factors, it can be seen that the GCF of 20 and each individual number is 10 by looking at each prime factorization:

In each pairing, the common prime factors are 2 and 5, so the GCF is .

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Menu 1

Above is the menu at the concession stand at a school carnival. Ken wants to purchase a hamburger, a medium order of fries, and medium soda for himself, and a hot dog, a small order of fries, and a small soda for his friend Donna. He hands the clerk a $10 bill and a $5 bill. He has some $1 bills in his pocket; how many of them will he need to hand to the clerk along with the other two bills?

(No tax is charged, since this is a school event)

Answer

The items Ken purchases are as follows:

Hamburger: $4.89

Medium fries: $2.79

Medium soda: $1.69

Hot dog: $4.39

Small fries: $2.29

Small soda: $1.09

The sum of the prices of these items:

Subtract from $20:

Rounding this up - Ken needs to give the clerk three more $1 bills.

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Menu 1

The above is a menu at the concession stand at a drive-in movie.

Gary wants to order two hamburgers and two small orders of fries. He wants to order two sodas of the same size. If he has just a twenty-dollar bill on hand, what is the largest size soda of which he can order two?

Answer

The easiest way to think of this is to note that Gary seems to be ordering for two people, himself and a friend. He has $20, so half of this will be for himself and half for his friend - and half of $20 is $10.

Each hamburger costs $4.89, and each small order of fries costs $2.29. This leaves

to spend on a soda for each person. This will enable to him to buy both himself and his friend a large soda.

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Menu 1

The above is a menu at the concession stand at a drive-in movie. The stand also offers a special "Meal Deal": a hamburger or a hot dog, a medium order of fries, and a medium soda for .

Randy orders two Meal Deals - a hamburger Meal Deal for himself and a hot dog Meal Deal for his friend Denise. How much more would he have paid for the items separately?

(Ignore tax)

Answer

The two Meal Deals cost .

Purchased separately, the hamburger would have cost $4.89; the hot dog, $4.39; each of the two medium orders of fries, $2.79; and each of the two medium sodas, $1.69. The total price of the items, purchased separately, would have been

The difference between this and the $16 paid for the food is

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Menu 1

The above is a menu at the concession stand at a drive-in movie. The stand also offers a Family Chicken Strip Bucket - twenty chicken strips, four medium orders of fries, and four medium sodas for $30.

How much more would the items of the Family Chicken Strip Bucket cost if they were purchased separately?

(Ignore tax)

Answer

There are twenty chicken strips in the Family Chicken Strip Bucket, which are the same as in five orders; each order costs $3.99 separately. Each medium order of fries costs $2.79 separately, and each medium soda costs $1.69 separately. The items separately cost a total of

Subtract $30; the savings amount to

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Gradechart

If Exam 1 is worth 25% of the total grade, Exam 2 is worth 25% and Exam 3 is worth 50%, what is Dave’s final grade?

Answer

Final Grade = Exam1 * 0.25 + Exam 2 * 0.25 + Exam3 * 0.50 =

96*0.25 + 70*0.25 + 85*0.5 =

24 + 17.5 + 42.5 = 84

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A car has gas mileage of 46 miles per gallon. Assume that gas costs $3.90 per gallon. What would be the total cost of gas if the car traveled 1,150 miles?

Answer

First find out how many gallons of gas the car consumed while traveling 1150 miles. This can be found out like so:

1150 miles x gallons/46 miles = 25 gallons

Multiplying 25 by $3.90 yields $97.50.

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If , approximately how many inches are in one meter?

Answer

and

Using the factor-label method we get the following equation.

We treat the units as if they are numbers, and can cancel the units from the fractions.

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What is 48,570 in scientific notation?

Answer

Convert to scientific notation by creating a number that is greater than or equal to 1 AND less than 10 AND includes the same digits as the original number. Remove all zeros before the first natural number and after the last natural number.

So, we have 48,570.

Now we move the decimal to create our number between 1 and 10.

4.8570

We have one zero after the last natural number, which is 7. Remove that.

4.857

Now we must multiply that number by 10 to a certain power. We choose our power by how many places the decimal must move to get our original number. In this case, the decimal would have to move 4 places to the right.

4.857

48.57

485.7

48,570.

So our final answer is \dpi{100} 4.857\times 10^{4}

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You bought a dozen eggs marked at and received change from . What is the percent of sales tax?

Answer

Set the equation up as

Solve for , which equals

or

Therefore the percent sales tax is:

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Multiply:

Answer

To multiply, there is no need to solve for a least common denominator. Simply multiply the numerator with the numerator and the denominators together.

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Multiply:

Answer

Multiply the terms as is, ignoring the decimal.

Since there is one decimal from the original problem, the decimal place is one unit from the right. Therefore, the final answer must have a decimal one unit to from the right.

The answer is .

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