Middle School Math Acceleration Test - Part 1

First and Last Name: __________________________________________________

Math Teacher: ________________ School: ___________________
1. On average, I sleep about 7 hours and 45 minutes each day. So during one year, I sleep for
7.45 x 365 = 2719.25 or about 2700 hours.
This calculation is not correct. What is the correct answer? Show all work!
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2. Bill is going to order new jerseys for his baseball team. The jerseys will have the team logo printed on the front.
Print It will charge $21.50 each for the jerseys.
Using n for the number of jerseys ordered and c for the total cost in dollars, write an equation to show the total
cost of the jerseys from Print It.

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3. Top Copy has a one-time set up cost of $70 and then charges $18 for each jersey.
Using n to stand for the number of jerseys ordered and c for the total cost in dollars, write an equation to show
the total cost of the jerseys from Top Copy.

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4. Use the two equations from Questions 2 and 3 to figure out the fewest number of jerseys Bill would need to
order for the cost from Top Copy to be less than from Print It. Show your work and explain how you found
your answer.

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5. Bill decides to order 30 jerseys from Top Copy. How much more would the jerseys cost if he bought them from
Print It? Show all your work.

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6. In a shipment of 1,000 bulbs,

bulbs?

1
40

of the bulbs were defective. What is the ratio of defective to non-defective

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7. In a sale, all the prices are reduced by 25%. Julie sees a jacket that costs $64 before the sale. How much does it
cost during the sale? Show all work!

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8. In the second week of the sale, the prices are reduced by 25% of the previous weeks price. In the third week of
the sale, the prices are again reduced by 25% of the previous weeks price. In the fourth week of the sale, the
prices are again reduced by 25% of the previous weeks price.
Julie thinks this will mean that the prices will be reduced to $0 after the four reductions because 4 x 25% =100%.
Is Julie correct or incorrect? Explain your reasoning.

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6

6
5

9. Brenda lives of a mile from school. Mike lives of a mile from school. Who lives closer to the school? Explain
your answer!

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10. A picture is copied onto a sheet of paper 8.5 inches by 10 inches. A blank 1.5 inch margin is left on all sides.
What area in square inches does the picture cover? Hint: Make a drawing. Show all work!

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11. If the product of 6 integers is negative, at most how many of the integers can be negative? Show your work!

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Use this information for Questions # 12 13.
Basil saw a strange old bicycle at the museum. It had one very large wheel and one very small wheel. It was
called an Ordinary or a Penny Farthing. At home, Basil looked it up on the Internet and found that the big
wheel could have a 52 inch diameter and the small wheel could have an 18 inch diameter.

12. What is the circumference of the big wheel? Use 3.14 for pi. Show all work!

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13. If the circumference of the small wheel is 18, what is the area of the small wheel? Use 3.14 for pi. Show all
work!

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14. Cheez-Its cost $3.00 for 15 oz. Vons Cheese Crackers cost $3.50 for 18 oz. Find the unit rate of each. Show all
your work and explain how you know which is a better deal.

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15. Draw a circle around the expression which is greatest when n is a negative number. Explain how you found your
answer!

n2

2n

Use this information to answer Questions 16 18. Will is w years old. Ben is 3 years older than Will. Jan is twice
as old as Ben.

16. Write an expression, in terms of w, for Bens age.

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17. Write an expression, in terms of w, for Jans age.

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18. If you add together the age of Will, Ben, and Jan, the total comes to 41 years. How old are Will, Ben, and Jan.
Show all work!

Will is ___________________
Ben is ___________________
Jan is

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Use this information for Questions 19 21. On a map of the United States, 24 centimeters represents 18 miles.

19. How many centimeters represents 1 mile?

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20. How long is the line segment between A and B in centimeters?

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21. If A and B represent two cities, what is the actual distance between the two cities? Show all work!

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22. Write and simplify the expression that represents the sum of (2x 5y) and (x + y).

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Middle School Math Acceleration Test - Part 2

First and Last Name: __________________________________________________
Math Teacher: ________________ School: ___________________
23. Melinda and her sister Akira are walking around the track at school. Melinda and Akira walk at a steady rate and
Melinda walks 5 feet in the same time that Akira walks 2 feet. Set up the table to represent this situation.

24. When Melinda walks 45 feet, how far will Akira walk? Show all your work and explain how you found your
answer!

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25. Suzanne thinks the two expressions 2(3a 2) + 4a and 10a 2 are equivalent. Is she correct? Explain why or
why not.

26. A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. One way to write an expression to find the perimeter would be
w + w + 2w + 2w. Write the expression in two different ways.

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27. Two angles are complementary. One angle is 34 degrees and the other is 8x degrees. Find the value of x. Show
all work!

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28. Two angles are supplementary. One angle is 40 degrees and the other is 7x degrees. What is the measure of the
larger angle? Show all work!

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Use the data below to answer questions # 29 37.

Mariners RBIs
15

51

25

33

64

43

14

13

11

29

Orioles RBIs
55

12

60

31

14

69

20

76

29. Find the median of the Mariners RBIs.

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30. Find the lower quartile of the Mariners RBIs.

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31. Find the upper quartile of the Mariners RBIs.

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32. Make a box-and-whiskers plot of the Mariners RBIs.

33. Find the median of the Orioles RBIs.

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34. Find the lower quartile of the Orioles RBIs.

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35. Find the upper quartile of the Orioles RBIs.

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36. Make a box-and-whiskers plot of the Orioles RBIs.

37. Using the information from above, make a statement that compares the RBIs for the two teams.

38. Ivan has created a game with number cubes. He has created two different number cubes, a blue one and a pink
one.

Below are the six faces of each of the two number cubes.

How many pairs of numbers can Ivan roll with the two number cubes?

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39. When the 2 number cubes are rolled, the one with the larger number is the winner. What is the probability that
the blue cube would win on any given roll? Show how you figured it out.

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40. Ivan rolls the blue and pink cubes again. What is the probability that the sum of the two numbers would be
greater than 13? Explain how you found your answer.

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