Winter Extra Credit Assignment

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1. In an 8 oz serving of tomato soup, there are 100 calories. Fill in the table with 4 equivalent ratios. Then, create a graph from the table.
# of ounces # of calories
2. The dot plot below shows the birth months of a group of 30 sixth grade students. Which ratio
relationship expressed in words describes a ratio of 2:5 as shown in the diagram?
A. For every two students born in January there were five students born in October.
B. For every five students born in October there were two students born in January.
C. For every two students born in January there were five students born in July.
D. For every five students born in July there were two students born in January.
3. Lucy purchased 2.7 lbs. of apples that were on sale for $2.50/lb. If she paid with a ten dollar bill,
how much change did she receive?
A. $6.75
B. $3.25
C. $5.20
D. $4.80
4. Farmer Nelson lets people pick their own strawberries from his strawberry patch, and he sells them by
the ounce. He sells 20 ounces of strawberries for $4.00 and 12 ounces for $2.40. Find the price of 5
ounces of strawberries and the price of 27 ounces.
Create two different models to represent your answers. Explain how each representation helped you
arrive at the answers. (You may use a table, tape diagram, double number line, graph, or equation as
your models.)
5. Pablo wants to order 30 hamburgers for his birthday party. He found two advertisements for
competing hamburger restaurants that gave him some prices of hamburgers. The cost of a burger
remains the same no matter how many you buy.
From which restaurant should Pablo buy his burgers? Explain your reasoning.
6. Tyler ran out of gas while driving his scooter. He walked his scooter to the nearest gas station. He
was only able to put gallon into the tank because he was not carrying much money with him. When
he started the scooter after putting the gas in the tank, he noticed that his scooter’s gas tank was only full. How many gallons of gas can Tyler’s scooter hold when it is full?
A. 1 gallon
B. gallon
C. 3 gallons
D. gallon
7. Steve Woodmore broke the world record as the world’s fastest speaker, when he said 638 words
per minute. Approximately how many words per second did Steve Woodmore speak when he broke
the record? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
A. 11 words per second
B. 10 words per second
C. 9 words per second
D. 8 words per second
8. Seven cups of yogurt cost $3.50. How much does one cup of yogurt cost?
A. $1.50
B. $2.00
C. $.50
D. $.35
9. Ms. Jankowski’s art class has a total of 35 students enrolled. Seven of the thirty-five students are
girls. What percentage of the class is made up of boys?
A. 80%
B. 20%
C. 35%
D. 5%
10. Jackson had 250 total goals in his professional soccer career. 115 of them were made at home
games. What percent of his total goals were made during away games?
A. 46%
B. 54%
C. 13.5%
D. 135%
11. 15 is what percent of 300?
A. 50%
B. 15%
C. 5%
D. 10%
12. Express the ratio:
13 : 52
as a fraction in lowest terms:
13. Solve the proportion:
3
27
= 36
14. Express the percentage as a decimal.
5% = 15. 65% of 44 is: