05-Algebra Final Exam Spring 2013 Name

1. (4 pts) 28% of what number is 40? Express your 4. (12 pts) One day Amy bought a T-shirt that was on
answer as a fraction. sale. She paid a total of $12.96, including the sales
tax of 8%.

(1) What was the sales price?

(2) If the sales price was 80% of the original price,

what was the original price?
2. (4 pts) What percent of 150 is 39?

(3) Next day, the store owner gave additional 20%

o the sales price. What was the new sales
price?

3. (5 pts) The bacteria population starts with 1000

and grows to 35000 by the end of the day. What is
the percent of increase on the population size?

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5. (8 pts) Gina gave 32% of her cards to Amy and 46% 7. (8 pts) The length and the width of a rectangle are
of her cards to Mary. Assume that Gina still had 66 in the ratio of 5 to 2. If the length of the rectangle
cards left. is ve inches more than twice the width,

(1) How many cards did Gina have originally? (1) how long is the length?

(2) How many cards did Gina give to Mary? (2) what is the area of the rectangle?

6. (6 pts) Jason has 210 coins in a jar. He then puts 8. (6 pts) Simplify each of the following square roots.
the coins into three dierent jars. If the ratio of the Show your work in detail.
numbers of coins in the jars is 2 : 5 : 7, how many
coins are there in each jar? (1) 360

(2) 124

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 9. (5 pts) Let A = (2, 3). Suppose that point B is 12. (10 pts) Let A = (1, 4) and B = (3, 2).
obtained by moving point A three units to the left
and then ve units up. (1) Draw the line segment joining two points A and
B. Label A and B.
(1) Find the x and y-coordinates of point B.

(2) Draw the line segment joining A and B.

(2) Find the distance between A and B.

10. (4 pts) Let A = (x1 , y1 ) and B = (x2 , y2 ) be two

points.
(1) Write down the formula for nding the midpoint
of the line segment joining A and B.

(3) Find the midpoint M of the line segment join-

ing A and B. Label the midpoint on the line
segment joining A and B

(2) Write down the formula for nding the distance

between A and B.

(4) If C = (4, 3) is another point, what is the dis-

tance between C and M ?
11. (4 pts) Given two points P = (5, 3) and Q = (a, 5),
let M = (3, 4) be the midpoint of the line segment
joining P and Q. Find the value of a.

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13. (8 pts) Given three points A = (2, 0), B = (1, 4), 14. (4 pts) Given a triangle with three sides of 4 inches,
and C = (5, 1), 6 inches, and 7 inches, is the triagle a right triangle?
Give reasons to support your answer.
(1) draw triangle ABC. Label the vertices.

15. (12 pts ) Solve each of the following equations.

Verify your answers as indicated. Box your an-
swers.
x 3
(1) =
2x 1 2
(2) nd the area of ABC.

2 4
(2) =
x3 x2
(VERIFY YOUR ANSWER.)

(Show your work on the back of the sheet.)