Understanding and applying sequences

      You play a game where you score -6 points on the first turn and on each of the next three turns.  What is your score after those four turns?

The total number of hours that Paul had practiced piano at the end of the past six weeks is shown as: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. His total hours follow a pattern. Which expression can be used to predict the total number of hours she will have practiced at the end of n weeks?

• 2n + 1

• 2n - 1

• 3n + 1

• 3n - 1

• F

• G

• H

• J

Where would 177 fall in the sequence below?

2, 7, 12, 17, ...

Mario picked 5 mushrooms and Luigi picked 2 mushrooms each day. If they did that for 5 days how much mushrooms would they have all together?

• 35

• 7

• 12

• 20

Students are collecting cans for a food drive.  Week one they collected 172.3 pounds of food. Week 5, they collected 238 pounds of food.  How much more did they collect in week 5? 

• 410.3
• 65.7
• 66.3
• 146.3

A hotel in Las Vegas has 100 rooms on the first floor, 84 rooms on the second floor, 68 rooms on the third floor and 4 rooms on the last floor. How many ROOMS are there?

• 7 rooms

• 16 rooms

• 364 rooms

• 256 rooms

A plane is flying at 2,000 feet and starts to descend 50 feet every 10 seconds. What will the altitude be of the plane after one minute?

• 500 feet

• 1,500 feet

• 1,950 feet

• 1,450 feet

Carlos uses a cleaner after working in his garage. The bottle contains 64.2 mL of cleaner. He used 5.8 mL of the cleaner on Monday. On Tuesday, he used half of the remaining cleaner on a chemical spill. On Wednesday, he used 3.9 mL of the cleaner in the bottle. How many mL of cleaner did Carlos have left on Thursday?

Choose the correct answer from the given four options:
The 10th term of the AP: 5, 8, 11, 14, ... is

• 32
• 35
• 38
• 25