STAAR Level 6 - Version A

A manager purchased a total of 21 coffee mugs and key chains. Each coffee mug cost $8.50, and each key chain cost $2.75. If the manager spent a total of $132.50, how many coffee mugs did the manager purchase?

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CCSS.7.EE.B.4A

An organization has a monthly budget of x dollars. Every month $2,070 is spent on salaries. One-fourth of the remaining budget is spent on monthly activities. Which function can be used to find the amount in dollars spent on monthly activities?

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CCSS.HSF-BF.A.1A

A bag contains 18 coins consisting of quarters and dimes. The total value of the coins is $2.85. Which system of equations can be used to determine the number of quarters, q, and the number of dimes, d, in the bag?

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

A drummer and a guitarist each wrote songs for their band. The guitarist wrote 8 fewer than twice the number of songs that the drummer wrote. They wrote a total of 46 songs.

Which system of equations models this situation if the drummer wrote d songs and the guitarist wrote g songs?

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CCSS.HSA.CED.A.3

A particular type of cell doubles in number every hour. Which function can be used to find the number of cells present at the end of h hours if there are initially 4 of these cells?

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.2

What is the equation in slope-intercept form of the line that passes through the points (-4, 47) and (2, -16)?

Researchers in Antarctica discovered a warm sea current under a glacier that is causing the glacier to melt. The ice shelf of the glacier had a thickness of approximately 450 m when it was first discovered. The thickness of the ice shelf is decreasing at an average rate of 0.06 m per day.

Which function can be used to find the thickness of the ice shelf in meters x days since the discovery?

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CCSS.HSF-BF.A.1A

The amount of fertilizer in a landscaping company’s warehouse decreases at a rate of 3% per week. The amount of fertilizer in the warehouse was originally 78,000 cubic yards.

Which function models the amount of fertilizer in cubic yards left after w weeks?

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.2

At a restaurant jars of tomato sauce are stored in boxes in the pantry. Each box contains 8 jars of tomato sauce. A cook uses 2 jars from 1 of the boxes.

Which function shows the relationship between y, the total number of jars of tomato sauce remaining in the pantry, and x, the number of boxes in the pantry?

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CCSS.HSF-BF.A.1A

There are 1,024 players in a tennis tournament. In each round, half the players are eliminated. Which function can be used to find the number of players remaining in the tournament at the end of x rounds?

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.2