EXAM 3

Friday, November 3 2017,

Name:

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 Answer all 10 questions.You have 30 minutes. Each correct multiple choice
answer will receive 10 credits and each correct free response answers will receive
15 credits. Partial credit will be allowed for the free response questions but
left to the discretion of the grader. For each statement or question, choose the
word or expression that, of those given, best completes the statement or answers
the question. Record your answers on your separate answer sheet. [120]

1 For every 40 games a baseball team plays, it loses 12 games. What is the
ratio of the team’s losses to wins?

(1) 3 : 10

(2) 7 : 10

(3) 3 : 7

(4) 7 : 3

(5) 10 : 3

2 Egbert has red, blue, and green marbles in the ratio 5:4:3, and he has a
total of 36 marbles. How many blue marbles does Egbert have?

3 The number 48 consists of how many distinct prime factors?

(1) 1

(2) 2

(3) 3

(4) 4

(5) 5

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 4 Which of the following fractions is in its simplest reduced form?

17
(1) 136

7
(2) 126

13
(3) 69

11
(4) 121

5
(5) 160

5 A master of the secretarial arts types at a rate of 55 words per minute. If

there are 330 words per page, how many pages could a master be expected to
type in four and a half hours?

(1) 6

(2) 12

(3) 37.5

(4) 45

(5) 247.5

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 6 In the correctly worked addition problem below, which digit could repre-
sent X?

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(1) 2

(2) 4

(3) 6

(4) 8

(5) 0

7 If 2(5 − 9)2 + 3(6 + 2 = 7x, what is the value of x?

(1) 22 + 1

(2) 32 − 3

(3) 22 + 3

(4) 23

(5) 32

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 8 There are 150 students in the junior class at Joseph McCarthy High School.
Of them 1/3 bike to school, and the rest take the bus. If there are 45 boys in
the class and 15 of them bike, how many girls take the bus?

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 9 In a certain parking lot, there are 24 blue cars, 16 red cars, and the rest
are white cars. If there is a total of 48 cars in the parking lot, what is the ratio
of white cars to blue cars?

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 10 It takes 1/3 pounds of sausage mixed with 2/3 pounds of beans mixed
with 1 pound of rice to make jambalaya for 6 people. How many pounds of
sausage are needed to make jambalaya for 27 people?