Math 35

Question 1:

John is getting an 8% increase in salary. If his original salary was $36,000, what would his new salary be?

Question 2:

Which of the following is a simplified form of 4x – 4y + 2x?

Question 3:

Which of the following is less than 2/3?

Question 4:

A soap opera was rated on a 3-point scale by a survey group. A rating of 1 was given by 40% of the group, a rating of 2 by 50%, and a rating of 3 by 10%. To the nearest tenth, what was the average of the ratings?

Question 5:

From the top of a radio tower, the angle between the base of the tower and the town center is 55°. If the distance between the base of the tower and the town center is 120 meters, how high is the radio tower in meters?

Question 6:

A circle has an area of 2π square inches. How many inches long is its radius?

Question 7:

One of the requirements for becoming a bottle top twister at a toothpaste company is being able to twist 55 bottle tops a minute. Charlie can currently twist 40 bottle tops a minute, but insists that with the proper amount of practice, he increase his bottle tops twists per minute by 2 bottle caps twists for every week he practices. Which of the following represents the number bottle caps per minute that Charlie believes he will be able to twist w weeks from now?

Question 8:

The average number of teenagers trying out for the basketball team at Lincoln High from 2005 to 2015 can be modeled by the equation y = .45t + 30.3, where t represents the number of years since 2005, and y represents the approximate numbers of teenagers trying out for the basketball team. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the number .45 in the equation?