100% Mastery Week 1

Answer each question. Fractions must be in simplest form!!!!

  1. If cans of cat food are priced at 3 for $.89, what is the cost before sales tax is added for buying two cans? Round to the nearest cent.
  2. Ground beef costs $1.89 per pound. What would the price be for a package that weighs 1.25 pounds? Round to the nearest cent.
  3. A ticket to the movies costs $4.50. You spend an additional $3.00 on concessions and another $.75 playing video games after the movie. What is the total amount you spent?
  4. Using the information in problem 3, how much money would you have left if you started with $10.00?
  5. A bunch of bananas weighs 3 ¾ pounds. If there are 5 bananas in the bunch and each weighs the same amount, what is the weight of each banana in pounds?
  6. Using the information in problem 5, what is the weight of each banana in ounces? Remember there are 16 ounces in a pound.
  7. There is 185 3/8 feet of rope. How may four feet jump ropes can be cut?
  8. Using the information in problem 7, how much rope will be left after all the jump ropes have been cut?
  9. A certain cookie recipe calls for 1 2/3 cups of flour. If you make 2 ½ batches, how much flour will you need?
  10. What is the least number of coins, using only pennies, nickels, dimes, and/or quarters, could you have so that the value of the coins is $8.69?

100% Mastery Week 2

Answer each question. Fractions must be in simplest form!!!!

  1. Yvonne works 1 ½ hours each day. How many days will it take her to work 15 hours?
  2. Using the information in problem 1, how much money will Yvonne make after 5 days if she makes $4.25 an hour?
  3. A record has been playing for 1/3 hour. The record still has 1/12 hour to play. What is the total length of time the record will play? Express your answer in hours.
  4. Using the information in problem 3, what is the length of time the record will play in minutes?
  5. Each sheet of foil is 0.004 cm thick. How many sheets would be in a stack of foil that is 5 cm high?
  6. John and Mary are reading the same book. John has read 4/5 of the book and Mary has read 2/3 of the book. How much more of the book has John read than Mary?
  7. Suppose a car averages 5.7 Km per liter of gasoline. How many kilometers would the car be able to travel with 84 liters?
  8. Sean painted 1/3 of a fence. Sandra painted ¼ of the fence. How much of the fence has been painted by the two?
  9. Using the information in problem 8, how much of the fence remains to be painted?
  10. An auto racer obtained a top speed of 135.3 miles per hour. With some special equipment, this speed can be increased by 7.5 miles per hour. What would the racer’s speed be with the special equipment?