Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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A dirt bike with a 2-stroke engine requires 15 L of gas to be mixed with 1.5 L
of oil. How much oil will you need to mix with 25 L of gas to fill up your dirt bike? Round to 1
decimal place.
a. | 250.0 L of oil | c. | 0.9 L of oil | b. | 2.5 L of oil | d. | 3.0 L of oil |
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To mix juice from concentrate, you must use a ratio of 1 cups of concentrate to
3 cups of water. If you want to make 10 cups of juice, how much concentrate and water do you
need?
a. | 0.23 cups of concentrate, 9.77 cups of water | b. | 2.5 cups of
concentrate, 7.5 cups of water | c. | 0.33 cups of concentrate, 9.67 cups of
water | d. | 0.9 cups of concentrate, 9.1 cups of water |
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30 calculators cost $174.00. How much does 1 calculator cost?
a. | $5.17 | c. | $2.90 | b. | $9.28 | d. | $5.80 |
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Lucinda wants to make $6.00 on every arrangement of flowers she sells. If it
costs her $10.00 to prepare an arrangement, by what percentage will she mark up the price?
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Ulysses is purchasing a new car with a price of $20899.00. He lives in Alberta,
where there is no provincial tax and GST is 5%. Calculate how much tax he must pay on his new
car.
a. | $21943.95 | c. | $22361.93 | b. | $1462.93 | d. | $1044.95 |
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The wholesale price of a rake is $9.95. The markup is 105%. What is the retail
price of the rake?
a. | $20.40 | c. | $15.30 | b. | $16.32 | d. | $24.48 |
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A DVD player is regularly priced at $139.00. Its sale price is $104.25. What is
the discount rate, as a percent?
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Pierre, a landscaper, is buying grass seed. The garden store has a sale on
1.5-kg bags that are regularly priced at $21.29, advertised as “Buy one, get the second at half
price.” What is the discount rate as a percent?
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The regular price of honey ham at a the grocery deli is $2.39/100 g. If the ham
is on sale for 25% off, what is the cost of 275 g?
a. | $6.16 | c. | $6.23 | b. | $3.70 | d. | $4.93 |
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If the selling rate of Indian rupees is 0.02532 and the buying rate is 0.02087,
how much money would you lose if you exchanged $75.00 CAD for rupees and then converted them back to
CAD on the same day?
a. | $11.60 | c. | $13.18 | b. | $16.08 | d. | $15.99 |
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Short Answer
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Does the triangle below remain proportional if: a) Each side length is tripled?
b)
Each side length is halved?
c)
Each side length is increased by 3?
d) Each side length is
decreased by 1?
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The ratio of George’s weight to Tia’s weight is 6:5. If George
weighs 45 kg, how much does Tia weigh?
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A cement masonry apprentice earns $375.00 for 16 hours worked. Write this as a
unit rate.
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The cost of buying door handles at a wholesaler depends on the number you buy:
If you buy fewer than 5 handles, they cost the regular price of $2.59.
If you buy 6 to 10
handles, you get a discount of 6%.
If you buy 11 to 20 handles, you get a discount of
12%.
Calculate how much it would cost to buy 7 door handles in Saskatchewan, where PST is 5%
and GST is 5%.
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You have 497.94 British pounds, which you are exchanging for Canadian dollars at
a bank in Canada. a) Do you have
more or less money than is needed to purchase a new TV that sells for $1225.00 CAD?
b)
How much more money do you need or have extra, in
pounds?
| Country | Currency | Buying Rate | Selling
Rate | | Great Britain | Pound
(GBP) | 1.8413 | 1.9681 | | | | |
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