Project Motivational Math Ratio and Probability Test


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Select the best answer. If the answer is not here, select E for NH.


1.  A number cube with numbers on it from 1 through 6 has six faces.
     What is the probability of rolling a 5 if you rolled the number cube
     once?

A. 1 to 6
B. 1 to 4
C. 4 to 6
D. 2 to 6
E. NH


2.  Will places 9 cards numbered 2 through 10 faces down on table.
     He chooses 1 card. What is the probability that he will choose a 6?

A. 1/9
B. 6/10
C. 1/8
D. 6/9
E. NH


3.  Donna has 6 peppermint candies, 4 cherry candies and 10 fudge
     candies in a bag. What is the probability that Donna will select a
     cherry candy?

A. 4
B. 1/5
C. 3/5
D. 4/14
E. NH


4.  The ratio of cats to dogs is 3 to 8. If there are 24 dogs, how many
     cats are there?

A. 9
B. 18
C. 1/3
D. 12
E. NH


5.   Rob enjoys playing marbles with his friends. He keeps his marbles
      in a blue bag. What is the probability of pulling a red and a green marble?

     marbles

A. 5/6
B. 2/9
C. 3/11
D. 5/11
E. NH


6.  Jimmy has 1 yellow shirt, 1 blue shirt, 1 beige shirt and 1 white shirt.
     He also has 1 black pair of pants, 1 brown pair, 1 blue and 1 beige
     pair. How many different ways can Jimmy match one shirt with
     one pair of pants?

A. 8
B. 9
C. 12
D. 16
E. NH


Solve each proportion in problems 7 and 8.

7.  proportions

A. 24
B. 64
C. 72
D. 54
E. NH


8.  proportions

A. 35
B. 36
C. 28
D. 24
E. NH


9.  What is the probability that Dan will pull a King and a Queen out of a deck
     of cards?  (Hint:   There are 52 cards in a deck.)

A. 1/52
B. 2/52
C. 2/13
D. 4/52
E. NH


10.  Stewart attempted 100 shots in a basketball game. He made 65% of his
       shots. What is the probability of the shots missed to those that he made?

A. 15:90
B. 35:65
C. 35:100
D. 65:35
E. NH


11.  If one number is chosen from the set {1,2,3,4,5,6}, what is the
       probability that it is odd or greater than 4?

A. 4/5
B. 2/7
C. 2/3
D. 5/6
E. NH


12.  The students at Milton Elementary School made a pictograph of the
       airplanes that departed from Grandville Airport on 1/1/02 and 1/31/02.
       What is the ratio of airplanes departing on Tuesday to the airplanes
       departing on Monday from Grandville Airport?

      pictograph

A. 2 to 3
B. 8 to 12
C. 36 to 24
D. 12 to 8
E. NH


13.  Eight out of every twelve children like turnips. If there are 48 children in
       Ms. James' class, how many of the children like turnips?

A. 32
B. 12
C. 15
D. 18
E. NH


14.   How many different ways can you arrange 4 books on a shelf?

A. 5
B. 24
C. 25
D. 120
E. NH

** The following statement is for questions #15-17:
       A scale drawing of a proposed recreation building has
       a scale of 1 in.=8 ft. Find the actual measurement
       corresponding to each measurement in the drawing.


15.   The length of a basketball court: 6.5 in.

A. 48.5 ft.
B. 50 ft.
C. 14.5 ft.
D. 52 ft.
E. NH


16.   The width of a hockey rink: 4.25 in.

A. 34 ft.
B. 36 ft.
C. 40 ft.
D. 32.25 ft.
E. NH


17.   The length of a pool table: 2.6 in.

A. 24 ft.
B. 14 ft.
C. 52 ft.
D. 36 ft.
E. NH


18.   At 1:00 p.m. the shadow of a 5ft. pole is 7 ft. long. At 5:00 p.m. the
        shadow of this same pole is 35 ft. long. How tall is this pole at 5:00 p.m.?

A. 25 ft.
B. 28 ft.
C. 75 ft.
D. 49 ft.
E. NH


19.  At Fairview Elementary there are 400 students. 65% of the students eat
       in the cafeteria, and 35% of the students bring their lunch. What is the
       ratio of students who bring their lunch to those who eat in the cafeteria?

A. 7:13
B. 65:35
C. 13:7
D. 15:5
E. NH


20.  Six out of eight people in the community drive cars. If there are
       24,000 people in the community, how many of them drive cars?

A. 18,000
B. 20,000
C. 16,000
D. 32,000
E. NH


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