Olympiads School MCu8 x16 class 2: homework

First name: ___________ Last name: ____________ Student ID: ______________

Chapter 2 Fractions and Decimals and Chapter 3 Percent (1) Homework

Basic problems

1. Evaluate. Write the answer in simplest form. Show work!

2 3 1 8 5 1
1. 105 − 3 9 2. 72 − 16 3. 11 + 5 8

2 3 1 4 9 10
4. 123 − 6 6 5. 215 + 8 6. 810 − 16

1 7 5 14 2
7. 4 3 × 1 8 8. 5 7 × 15 9. 63 × 9

2 9 7 2 1
10. 5 5 ÷ 1 10 11. 5 8 ÷ 4 12. 16 3 ÷ 13 6

2. Write each decimal as a fraction in lowest terms. Show work!

1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. __
-4.72 -3.86 0.083 0.54

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5. _ 6. __ 7. _ 8. _
0.83 6.27 -1.83 0.3

9. _ 10. _ 11. _ 12. _

4.8 7.61 -1.53 0.583

3. Write each fraction or mixed number as a decimal. Use a bar to show a repeating decimal.

1. 69 2. 1 3. 20 4. 22
-2 4
100 90 100 300

4. Solve. Write the answer in simplest form. Show work!

15 5 5 25
1. 𝑞=7 2. 6 ÷ 𝑘 = 18
7

11 36 8 8
3. 𝑏 ÷ 12 = 55 4. 9 9 ÷ 𝑢 = 3 27

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2 49 4 8
5. 𝑞 − 13 = 104 6. 𝑣 − 6 14 = 1 21

4 19 5 11
7. 11 + 𝑗 = 22 8. 17 − 13 = 𝑠 + 14 13

5. Complete. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundredth of a percent.

1. fraction ________ 2. fraction 439/50 3. fraction ________

decimal ________ decimal 8.78 decimal ________
percent 68% percent ________ percent 49%

4. fraction 18/5 5. fraction 5/8 6. fraction ________

decimal ________ decimal ________ decimal 0.38
percent ________ percent 62.5% percent ________

7. fraction ________ 8. fraction 83/100 9. fraction 1/5

decimal 0.79 decimal ________ decimal ________
percent ________ percent 83% percent ________

Word problems

1. Anna's recipe for apple fritters makes eighteen fritters and uses two-thirds of a cup of milk. Anna
wants to make six fritters. How much milk will she need?

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2. Natalie is making chocolate milkshakes for Nicole's birthday party. There will be fourteen people at
the party. It takes a third of a cup of milk to make one chocolate milkshake. How many cups of milk will
it take to make fourteen milkshakes?

3. A recent forest fire near Littleville destroyed four-fifths of the trees in Bigtree National Forest. The
forest covers 4920 km2. There is now about 30 tons of salvageable wood per km2 in the burned area. The
part of the forest that was not destroyed by fire will not be open to the salvagers. Assuming the trees are
evenly distributed throughout the park, about how long will it take to remove all the salvageable wood at
a rate of 53 1/2 tons per day? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

4. One-third of the class grew peas, one-third grew carrots, and one-third grew beans. The class
consisted of 63 students of which five-sevenths were girls. The teacher chose the three groups to be as
equal in their boy-girl composition as possible. How many boys and girls were assigned to each team?

5. A bus is making a trip from Bigtown to Megacity. The average round trip speed is always 54 MPH on
this journey. The round trip distance is 120 miles. At Megacity the bus waits exactly 29 minutes and
then returns to Bigtown. If the bus has completed 5/6 of this entire journey, how long has it been since it
left Bigtown on the way to Megacity? Round your answer to the nearest minute.

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6. Zachary made a list of five different kinds of brownies: chocolate chip brownies, Rocky Road
brownies, brownies with walnuts, peanut butter swirl brownies, and butterscotch brownies. He asked
seventy-eight students to choose their favorite brownie from the last. Two-thirteenths of the students
liked peanut butter swirl brownies the best. Three-thirteenths of the students preferred Rocky Road
brownies. Chocolate chip brownies were the favorite of 7/39 of the students. 8/39 of the students just
loved brownies with walnuts and the rest of the students liked butterscotch brownies best. How many
students preferred butterscotch brownies?

7. Mushrooms produce a tremendous number of spores. However, very few spores go on to establish a
new mushroom colony. A "colony" is actually a little bunch of fuzzy-looking cells called a mycelium.
Let's say a particular mushroom produces a billion spores in a day. If two-thirds of one percent of those
spores successfully produces a new mycelium, how many of the spores were successful?

8. When our teacher handed out our math test, she told us to omit problems 4, 7, 9, 11, and 15. There
were forty problems on the test. What percent of the problems did we have to solve (to the nearest
percent)?

9. If ten out of fourteen skinks have stripes and the rest don't, what percent of the skinks do not have
stripes out of a population of 147 skinks? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

10. Olivia is performing an experiment using gel electrophoresis. She is monitoring the migration of
RNA through the gel. The shortest fragments of RNA have traveled 4.9 cm through the gel and the
longest fragments have traveled only 2.7 cm. The longest fragments have traveled what percent of the
distance of the shortest fragments? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a percent.