Lesson 16 Practice Quiz B

Ginger works at a restaurant and she receives a 15% discount in her meals. She correctly writes the expression p - 0.15p to represent the amount she spends after her discount, where p represents the amount of her purchase.

Write an equivalent expression to represent Ginger's purchase price after her discount using only one term.

• True
• False

• True
• False

• True
• False

• True
• False

Martin makes b bags of snack mix. Each bag contains 1.5 lb of nuts and 0.75 lb of dried fruit. What does the expression 1.5b + 0.75b represent?

• the weight of 2.25 bags of martin's snack mix

• the total weight of all the bags of Martin's snack mix

• the number of bags of snack mix Martin makes

• the number of bags that contain 2.25 lb of mix

Armando makes fruit punch for a party. The amount of orange juice needed to make each batch of fruit punch is 2.5 times the amount of pineapple juice, x.

An expression for the total amount of juice in all 6 batches that shows that the amount of orange juice is 2.5 times the amount of pineapple juice is:

• 3.5x + 6

• 2.5x + 6x

• 6(2.5x + x)

Armando makes fruit punch for a party. The amount of orange juice needed to make each batch of fruit punch is 2.5 times the amount of pineapple juice, x.

An expression that shows how the total amount of juice in 6 batches relates to the amount of pineapple juice in each batch is:

• 15x

• 16x

• 21x

Armando makes fruit punch for a party. The amount of orange juice needed to make each batch of fruit punch is 2.5 times the amount of pineapple juice, x.

An expression that shows how the total amount of each type of juice in all 6 batches separately is:

• x + 15x

• 2.5x + 6x

• 15x + 6x

• True
• False