BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
MAT 012 Midterm Examination Review
The actual exam will be MULTIPLE CHOICE.
1. You’re attending a college at which your expenses consist of $2,988 in tuition,
$524 in student fees, and $297 in textbooks. What are your total expenses?
2. Find the sum of
and .
3. There are 16 women and 4 men in this class. What fraction of the class is men?
4. Compute:
5. Multiply and simplify:
6. Your scores on the last four exams are 80, 72, 80, and 88. Find the average
(mean).
7. Five-sixths of the students passed the test. If there are 36 students in the class,
how many did NOT pass?
8. Find the smallest number:
9. Round to the nearest tenth: 70 divided by 29
10. Write in increasing order: 2.222, 2.099, 2.1, 3.01
11. If gas costs $2.20 per gallon, and you drive 130 miles (at 10 miles per gallon),
how much will your trip cost?
12. (
)
(
)
13. Write as a decimal:
14. Maria makes $10.25 an hour. How many hours must she work to make $2050?
15. Write as a fraction in lowest terms: 0.05
16. Bill needs to buy 24 bottles of soda. Each bottle is $1.75 including tax. If he has
a hundred dollar bill, how much change will he get?
17. Perform the indicated operations and simplify:
a.
 3  16  (8)  5 =
b. (3) 2  2  (5) 
18. Evaluate:
2 p  3q 2 , when p  4, q  2.
19. Express each of the following in terms of x:
a. 5 less than the number x
b. 5 more than the product of 9 and x
c. Five times the difference of twice x and 3
20. Find the sum of –
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and
1
21. Find the difference of –
and
(
22. Simplify completely:
)
23. New York City tax increased from 5% to 6%. What is the percent increase?
24. What is 10% of 30% of 300?
25. Write 6,250,000 in scientific notation.
26. Write 0.0035 in scientific notation.
27. Simplify completely: (
28. Simplify completely:
)
(
)
29. Simplify completely:
30. A truck has to move
tons of salt. Each truckload holds ton of salt. How
many trips must the truck make to distribute all the salt?
31. If 21 people voted “yes” on the ballot and 9 people voted “no,” what fraction of
the people voted “yes?”
32. Benny has 30 feet of ribbon. She needs three ribbons that are each
feet long
and thirteen ribbons that are each feet long. How many feet of ribbon will she
have left over?
33. Simplify completely:
34. Convert to a decimal and round to the nearest hundredth:
35. Multiply:
36. Divide:
37. 14 is what percentage of 280?
38. 150 is what percentage of 75?
39. A pair of pants originally cost $50. Then they were marked down 20%. What is
the sale price of the pants?
40. 1.5% of what number is 30?
41. Evaluate
when
.
42. Evaluate –
when
.
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MAT 012 Practice Midterm ANSWER KEY
1.
$3809
22.
23. 20%
2.
24. 9
3.
25.
4. 4
26.
5. 45
27.
6. 80
7. 6
28.
8.
29.
9. 2.4
30.
10. 2.099, 2.1, 2.222, 3.01
31.
11. $28.60
32.
12.
9
feet
33.
13. 0.12
34. 0.82
14. 200 hours
35. 0.0177
15.
36. 1.05
16. $58
37. 5%
17. a) 0 b) -1
38. 200%
18. 4
39. $40
19. a)
b)
c) (
)
40. 2000
20.
41. -17
21.
42. -15
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