7th Grade 20 Day Homework Day 15

1) A spinner has 6 sectors with the colors pink, orange, pink, orange, green, and green. What is the
probability the spinner lands on pink?
2) In 2010, the one billion market for trees dropped by 15%. What was the new market?
3) A piece of steel is shaped like a right triangular prism. The steel has a volume of 220 cubic inches and
each base has an area of 10 square inches. Find the altitude.
4) On the average, a person can reach about 1.25 times their height.
What type of relationship is this?
What does 1.25 represent?
How many inches would a 5 foot tall person be able to reach?
5) At the same time of day, a person who is five feet two inches tall casts a three foot four inches long
shadow and a building casts a twelve foot long shadow. What is the buildings height to the nearest
foot?
6) How do you know if the graph of a line is proportional?
7) When Ms. Ernest was leaving Texas to move to Kansas, her friend gave her a planter which had an area
of 1 square feet. Of that, of the planter had sunflowers. How many square feet had bluebonnets?
8) A rectangular small closet measures 12 ft by 9 ft. How much will it cost to carpet the closet if it costs
$1.75 per square foot with an 8.25% sales tax?
9) A spinner has the following sectors: 3, 13, 17, 9, 12. It was spun 40 times and out of those 40 spins, it
landed on a prime number, 17 times. However, the theoretical probability would have predicted that a
prime number would have been landed on exactly _____ times.
10) Does this graph represent a proportional relationship? Why or why not?

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