Operations with Rational Numbers Form A (Master Copy)

Directions: Please choose the best answer choice for each of the following questions.
1.

Four students simplified the expression

. Listed below are the first steps
each student took.

2.

Adam:
Becky:
Carol:
Duane:

Jane made graphs of her gas usage and costs for five
years. Her gas usage was measured in therms. The
graphs below show the number of therms used each
year and the unit price for a therm in a given year.

Which student solved the first step correctly?

A.

Adam

B.

Becky

C. Carol
D. Duane

What was the difference between Janets gas bills in

year 3 and year 5?
A.

She spent $0.40 more in year 3.

B.

She spent $2.20 more in year 5.

C. She spent $4.40 more in year 3.

D. She spent $11.20 more in year 5.
3.

On Monday, Darius jogged

on Saturday. Darius jogged

the distance he jogged

miles on Monday. How

many miles in all did he jog both days?

A.

miles

B.

miles

C.

miles

D.

miles
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4.

Ricki is having a basketball party at a local gym. There

is a $10.00 per hour rental fee for the gym, plus a
charge of $12.00 per adult and $7.50 per child. There
will be 3 adults and 18 children at the party, and the
party will last 4 hours. Ricki's dad uses a coupon for
$30.00 off the cost of a party at the gym. What is the
final cost of Ricki's party?
A.

$151.00

B.

$181.00

7.

Tom was given the following expression in class.

Tom used the associative property of addition to

simplify the expression. Which step would Tom use
FIRST to simplify the expression?
A.

C. $261.00

5.

D. $419.50

B.

Mrs. Sanford asked her class to rewrite this expression

using the associative property of multiplication.

C.
D.
8.

Which of these expressions is correct?

Two points are plotted on the number line shown.

A.
B.
C.
What is the distance between points

D.
6.

and

A.

The results of an election for student body president

are shown in this circle graph.

B.
C.
D.
9.

Nicolas has

quarts of a saltwater solution. He

divides the solution into containers holding

cup

each. Which of these shows the number of containers

Nicolas fills?
A.

less than 5

B.

between 5 and 10

C. between 10 and 20
D. more than 20

There were 350 votes in all. How many votes were for
Nguyen?
A.

42

B.

77

C. 147
D. 292
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10.

What is the product of

and

14.

Mr. Gill is draining his pool. The sump pump he is

using changes the water level by

inches per hour.

A stronger pump would drain the pool 2 times as fast.

What would the change in water level be per hour
with the stronger pump?

A.
B.

A.

inches

B.

inches

C.
D.
11.

Tracy and Angela competed in a trivia game in

which each player gains or loses points in each round.
In the last round, Tracy had 985 points and lost
387 points. Angela had 502 points and received an
additional 183 points. What was the winners score?
A.

570

B.

598

15.

C.

inches

D.

inches

What is

A.

C. 685

12.

D. 889

B.

Kim went scuba diving and made 5 stops to adjust

the pressure of her breathing apparatus before finally
reaching the depth of her destination. The data show
the depth in feet she descended prior to each stop.

C.
D.
16.

Which of these is true?

A.
B.
C.
D.

What was her final depth after all of her stops?

A.

17.

B.
C.
D.
13.

On Monday, the low temperature was

degrees.
The low temperature dropped by 3 degrees each of
the next three days. What was the low temperature on
Thursday?
A.

Look at the number line.

degrees

B.

degrees

C.

degrees

D.

degrees

Which equation is shown on the number line?

A.
B.
C.
D.
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18.

Pablo has a piece of wood for a model boat that is

inches long. He cuts off

22.

inch to make it the correct

The temperature decreased by a total of

over an
eight-hour period. Which statement explains the sign
of the average hourly temperature change?

length. What is the length of the new piece of wood

expressed as a decimal?

A.

The sign is positive, because

A.

0.8 inch

B.

The sign is positive, because

B.

1.2 inch

C. 1.25 inch

.
.

C. The sign is negative, because

D. The sign is negative, because

D. 1.50 inch
19.

Amber has a 100-gallon water tank for her animals

to drink from. At the beginning of the week, the tank
is exactly half full. The animals drink 10 gallons of
water each day. If no water is added to the tank, which
fraction represents the amount of water left in the tank
after 3 days?

23.

A.

A.

0.03

B.

0.035

C. 0.3
D. 0.35

B.
24.
C.
D.
20.

What is the decimal equivalent of

Kayla finds the quotient of two integers. The answer is

a negative rational number. Which integers did Kayla
use?
A.

25.

Which two numbers have a combined distance of 22.6

from 0 on the number line?
A.

and

B.

and

C.

and

D.

and

The point on the number line represents the fraction of

a cup of flour that Mark took out of the canister.

B.
C.
D.
21.

In Ms. Adams fifth grade class of 22 students, there

are 10 boys. What decimal shows the fraction of the
class that is boys?
A.
B.

He refills the canister with twice as much flour as he

took out. Starting from

, which number on the

number line would represent the amount of flour Mark

added back to the canister?
A.

C.

B.

D.

C.
D.

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