Name: ________________________________
Date: _____________
Lesson 1 Assessment 1. Evaluate using the correct order of operations. Show all of your work. Use your graphing
calculator to check your answer.
1 2 3
8 − (1 − 5) 2
a. ÷ ×
b.
2 3 4
5× 2
2. Sara buys a bag of candy. In the bag, 1/2 of the candies are red, 1/5 are green, and the
remainder are white. What fraction of the candies are white? Show all of your work. Write
your answer in a complete sentence.
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3. Fred and Wilma purchase a new home. They make a down payment of $20,000 and take out
a mortgage on the balance. To pay off the loan, they agree to make monthly payments of
$1,022 for the next thirty years. Calculate their total payment (including the down payment)
over this thirty-year time period. Show all of your work. Write your answer in a complete
sentence.
4. Below the tick marks on the graph, place the numbers -5 to 5, in order from left to right.
Place a dot on the graph for each of the numbers in the list and label above the dot with the
number (exactly as it appears on the list).
7
,
2
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