Name: ______________________ Class: _________________ Date: _________ ID: A

6-12 Practice Problems Competencies 12-15

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. What polynomial is modeled by the algebra tiles?

2 2
a. 3x + x - 2 c. 3x + x + 2
2 2
b. 3x - x - 2 d. -3x + x - 2
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____ 2. Simplify -2x + 3 + x + 8 - 5x. Use models if needed.

2 2
a. -2x - 4x + 11 c. 2x - 4x - 11
2 2
b. 2x - 4x + 11 d. -2x - 4x - 11

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____ 3.
Mountain Ski Resort
2007 Snowfall (ft.)
December 20
January 49
February 24

How many more inches did it snow in January than February?

a. 348 c. 300
b. 312 d. 25

Write a numerical expression for each verbal phrase.

____ 4. the difference of twenty-one and seven

a. 7 ∏ 21 c. 21 – 7
b. 7 – 21 d. 21 ∏ 7
____ 5. thirty-three increased by eleven
a. 33 ¥ 11 c. 33 + 11
b. 33 – 11 d. 33 ∏ 11
____ 6. thirty-six divided by four
a. 36 ¥ 4 c. 4 ∏ 36
b. 4 – 36 d. 36 ∏ 4
____ 7. Find how many more pencils Chet has than Benito, if Benito has ten and Chet has seventeen.
a. 10 ¥ 17 c. 17 ∏ 10
b. 17 – 10 d. 10 + 17

Translate each phrase into an algebraic expression.

____ 8. eleven increased by the difference of twenty and a number

a. 11 + x - 20 c. 11 ¥ 20 - x
b. 11 + 20 - x d. 11 + 20 ∏ x

Yes/No
Indicate whether you agree with the statement.

____ 9. My dad mowed the lawn for 40 minutes, weeded for 25 minutes and then planted new tomatoes for
20 minutes. Is it reasonable to say that he came inside an hour later?

____ 10. Martha read four books spread out evenly over the summer. They had a total of 48 chapters and she
read for 12 weeks. Is it reasonable to think that Martha read four chapters a week over the summer?

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____ 11. The piano teacher told Rachel that she needed to practice 5 minutes the first week each day, 10
minutes the second week each day and 15 minutes the third week. Rachel practiced 70 minutes the
second week and more than 2 hours the third week total.

____ 12. Is it reasonable:If the dog barked the last three Tuesdays and Thursdays, is it reasonable to think that
the dog will bark next Tuesday and Thursday?
____ 13.
Is this answer reasonable? My dad took 7 boys in his car to the zoo, but two parents met him at the
zoo and took their boys home with them. How many did my dad take home in his car? I think he
took 5 home. Am I right?

____ 14. Is this reasonable? Cody is making a bookcase. He wants to make three shelves that are 1.5 yards
long each. He has a piece of wood that is 4 yards long. How much will be left over. (None, he doesn’t
have enough wood. He needs 4 + yards)
____ 15. Dane’s class planted corn. At the end of the first week it was 10 cm tall. In the second week it grew
another 12 cm and in the third week 20 cm. The corn is almost 60 cm tall! Is that correct?
____ 16. Is this reasonable? Janet is baking cakes. She needs 4 cups of flour for every cake and she wants to
make 6 cakes. Her flour bags have 8 cups of flour in each bag. I think she needs 3 bags of flour. Is
that right?
____ 17. Reasonable? My dog needed medicine and my mom had to give him 1 dropper full for every 20
pounds. My dog weighs about 30 pounds and my mom gave him a dropper and a half. Is that right?
____ 18. Reasonable? Jenna’s dad went roller-skating at the rink for 3 hours with Jenna. They left at 2:00pm
and didn’t come home until 6 pm. Is that about right? (Yes, if driving time is in the total)

Short Answer

19. Find the Mistake

625 + 196 + 4 = 725

20. Find the Mistake

(2)(-1) - (1)(4)
2
=2
(-1)

21. Find the Mistake

-4
= 0.75
-3

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22. Find the Mistake:

k k
10(1.3) = 13

23. Find the Mistake:

24. Explain the Error:

Question: What is 14,489 to the nearest 1000?

To obtain the answer, round to the nearest 10, 100 and then 1000; thus:
14 489 to the nearest 10 is 14 490,
14 490 to the nearest 100 is 14 500,
14 500 to the nearest 1000 is 15 000.
25. Find the error:

Question: What is 0.1 x 0.1?

As 1 x 1 = 1
then by comparison 0.1 x 0.1 = 0.1
26. Explain the error?

Question: What is the value of 3 ∏ 1 ?

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27. Explain the error:

Question: What is the value that satisfies -4 + ? = -10?

Answer: ? = 6
28. Find the error:

1 1 2
+ =
2 4 6

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6-12 Practice Problems Competencies 12-15

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. D
7. B
8. B

YES/NO

9. N
10. Y
11. N
12. Y
13. Y
14. N
15. N
16. Y
17. Y
18. Y

SHORT ANSWER

19.
Take time to get the simple calculations right. Adding 196 to 4 gives 200, which added to 625 gives
825.
20.
Use care with signs. A good strategy is to write down intermediate steps, which makes you take the
time needed to simplify correctly.
21.
Use care with fractions; in this case the reciprocal of the correct answer was given as the answer.

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22.
The 10 cannot be combined with the 1.3 since the 1.3 is raised to the power t while the 10 is not.
The order of operations rules mean that 1.3 is raised to the power t first and then the result is
multiplied by 10. The 10 and the 1.3 could be combined if both were raised to a common power, as
follows:
k k k k
10 (1.3) = (10 ¥ 1.3) = 13

23.
Any quantity to be canceled must be a common factor of the entire numerator and the entire
denominator. There are no common factors, so this expression cannot be simplified.(There are other
mistakes: after incorrectly canceling the 8y and the 8x the student replaced these quantities with 0
instead of 1; even allowing for these errors, the sign of the final answer is wrong, too, perhaps the
result of incorrectly multiplying the two minus signs in the denominator!)

24. The answer must be either 14 000 or 15 000, and since14 489-14 000=489,
while 15000-14 489=511,
clearly 14 489 is nearer to 14 000 than to 15 000.
Hence: the correct answer is 14 000.
25.

26.

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27.

28. When adding fractions find a common denominator

1 1 2 1 3
+ = + =
2 4 4 4 4