On Frank's bus ride to work, all available seats are filled and 6 passengers are standing in the aisles. If 10 passengers get off the bus and 8 others get on, how many passengers are standing in the aisles, assuming that all available seats continue to be filled?

You are taking care of 3 kittens for 7 days. Each kitten eats 2 cans of food per day. How many cans of food will you need for the week?

Jared bought a charcoal grill from the local hardware store. The grill was regularly priced at $58, but Jared had a coupon for 25% off. How much money did Jared save by using his coupon?

A statewide survey showed that approximately 75% of babies born in the state had brown eyes. If 6,000 babies were born in the state last month, about how many of them had brown eyes?

A blouse normally sells for $138, but is on sale for 25% off. What is the cost of the blouse?

To determine a student’s grade, a teacher throws out the lowest grade obtained on 5 tests, averages the remaining grades, and rounds up to the nearest integer. If Betty scored 68, 75, 88, 86, and 90 on her tests, what grade will she receive?

A ski club charges a $48 membership fee, plus $18 to rent ski equipment per day. Which of the following equations can be used to find the total cost of membership at the club, when renting equipment for x days?

A family on vacation drives 123 miles in 2 hours, then gets stuck in traffic and goes 4 miles in the next 15 minutes. The remaining 191 miles of the trip take 3 3/4 hours. What was their average rate of speed to the nearest tenth of a mile per hour?

The table shows the cost of renting a bicycle for 1, 2, or 3 hours. Which of the following linear equations best represents the data, if C represents the cost and h represents the time of the rental?

In a spelling bee, Anish’s placement is both the 11th highest and the 25th lowest among all the spellers who participated. How many spellers participated in the spelling bee?

A regular toilet uses 3.2 gallons of water per flush. A low flow toilet uses 1.6 gallons of water per flush. What is the difference between the number of gallons used by the regular toilet and the low flow toilet after 375 flushes?

A rock group with 5 musicians gets 25% of the gross sales of their new album, but they have to give their agent 15% of their share. If the album grosses $20,000,000, what is each band member’s share?

John needed 13.71 feet of wire to fix a lamp. He bought 𝟏𝟒 𝟏/𝟐 feet of wire at the hardware

store. How much wire did he have left over after fixing the lamp?

A music club offers 7 CDs for $24 to new members. The usual price of CDs is $12 each. If Maria joins the club and gets her 7 CDs at the discounted price instead of buying them individually, how much is her total savings?

Ricky took the SAT math test four times. The first three scores totaled 1900. After the fourth time, his average score was 650. What score did he get the fourth time?

Manuela makes $21 in commissions over the first three hours that she worked selling magazines. How many dollars must she make during the fourth hour to average $8 an hour for the full four hours?

A home improvement store rents its delivery truck for $19 for the first 75 minutes and $4.75 for each additional 14 hours. If a customer rented the truck at 11:10 a.m. and returned the truck at 1:40 p.m. the same day, what would his rental cost be?

A flagpole has a shadow that is 10 1/2 feet long. How tall, to the nearest inch, is the flagpole?

Rafael has a business selling computers. He buys computers from the manufacturer for $450 each and sells them for $800. Each month, he must also pay fixed costs of $3,000 for rent and utilities at his store. If he sells n computers in a month, which of the following equations can be used to calculate his profit?

The average of six numbers is 4. If the average of two of those numbers is 2, what is the average of the other four numbers?

If a rectangle’s length and width are doubled, by what percentage does its area increase?

A bull’s-eye with a 4-inch diameter covers 20 percent of a circular target. What is the area, in square inches, of the target?

What is the maximum number of 𝟔 𝟑/𝟒 -inch strips that can be cut from a spool of ribbon

that is 10 yards long?

Three quarters of the students running a 100-yard race finished with an average time of 16 seconds. The remaining 25% of students finished with an average time of 12 seconds. What was the average time overall?

A painter uses 1 quart of paint for every 10 square feet of wall that he paints. He must paint a rectangular wall 12 feet high by 17 feet long, in which there are two circular windows, each one 4 feet in diameter. Which of the following is the closest estimate of the number of quarts of paint he needs?

Maxine would like to buy a new printer for her flyer business and is trying to decide between two options. If Maxine prints 50,000 pages a month on average, If Maxine prints 50,000 pages a month on average, how long would she need to use printer B

before it becomes a better deal than printer A?

John ran a mile in 6 minutes 15 seconds. If Joe ran at an average speed of 168 inches per second, Jim ran at an average speed of 875 feet per minute, and Jeremy ran at an average speed of 10 miles per hour. Who ran faster than John?

A bowl of fruit is served as part of a breakfast buffet at a conference. There are 21 bananas in the bowl, which is three times as many as the number of oranges. The oranges make up 14% of the total number of pieces of fruit. If each person at the conference was allowed a maximum of 1 piece of fruit, what percentage of the 200 people at the conference could get a piece of fruit from that bowl?

The volume in a water drum is halved every 2 days of a drought. If the volume of water in the drum was initially 1,000,000 gallons, what was the approximate volume after 10 days?

A pilot traveled the first 1,500 miles of a 3,000-mile journey with an average speed of 400 miles per hour. At what speed must the pilot travel the remaining 1,500 miles to record an average speed of 500 miles per hour for the entire flight?

If the area of a rectangular board is 336 square inches and its perimeter is 76 inches, what is the length of each of the shorter sides?

Carina consigns her children's outgrown clothing at a local consignment shop that awards her 40% of the total sales price. She uses $28 from the proceeds to purchase new clothing for her children and goes home with $64 in cash. How much did her children's old clothing sell for?

The town of Fram is planning to build a water storage tank on a hill overlooking the town. The tank will be a right circular cylinder. The plot of ground selected for the installation is large enough to accommodate a circular tank 60 feet in diameter. The planning commission wants the tank to hold 1,000,000 cubic feet of water, and they intend to use the full area available. Which of the following is the minimum acceptable height?

An investigator working for a sporting league suspects that a ball used for one of the contests may have been filled with cork to alter the way it responds when hit. To test his suspicion, he weighs the ball. The density of cork is 3 g/cm³, whereas the normal filling has a density of 4 g/cm³. The diameter of the ball is 6 cm. If the ball has not been tampered with, how much should it weigh?

A cylindrical oatmeal canister has a diameter of 4 inches and a height of 10 inches. The

manufacturing company wants to package the oatmeal in square containers to cut back on

wasted storage space. If the new carton has a square base with 4-inch sides, what is the

minimum height it must have, to the nearest 𝟏/𝟒 inch, to hold the same volume of oatmeal?