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Name:______________________________ Pd____
Day 1 - Evaluating Functions and Rounding
1. Round the decimals to the nearest tenth.
a) 37.435 b) 21.187 c) -11.855 d) 24.178
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2. Round the decimals to the nearest hundredth.
a) 103.494 b) 108.496 c) 48.952 d) 13.842
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3. Round the decimals to the nearest thousandth.
a) 5.8905 b) -19.6872 c) 25.9836 d) 4.5795
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Evaluate the following expressions. Round correctly to the nearest hundredth.
2
4. 3𝑥 + 4𝑦 + 22 when x= 2 and y= -6 5. 3𝑥 − 2𝑥 + 5 when x= -4
2
6. − 3𝑥 + 5𝑦 − 8𝑧 when x=2, y= -1, and z=0 7. 8𝑦 − 2 + 11 when y= 5
3𝑥−5 3
8. 4𝑦+8
when x= 2 and y= 4 9. (𝑥 + 5) + 𝑦 when x= 2, y= -24
10. Given the functions below, evaluate the following expressions.
2
3 2 𝑥 +9
𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 − 5𝑥 + 1 𝑔(𝑥) = 4𝑥 + 2 ℎ(𝑥) = 4
𝑗(𝑥) = 𝑥
a) 𝑓(− 1) b) 𝑔(5) c) ℎ(− 2)
d) 𝑗(5) e) 𝑓(1) + 𝑔(4)
f) 𝑗(12) + 𝑗(54) g) 𝑔(1) − 𝑔(4)
Day 2 - Linear Applications
𝑦 = 𝑚𝑥 + 𝑏
1. Find the slope between the two points.
a) (-5, 5) and (1, -7) b) (-3, 8) and (0, -4)
2. Write a linear equation given the two points.
c) (8, -20) and (18, 10) d) (-7, 0) and (-5, -8)
3. Write the equation of each diagonal line by using the function 𝑦 = 𝑚𝑥 + 𝑏
Slope: _____________
y-intercept: ________________
Equation: _______________________________
4. Cows are great for milk and steak. The weight w of cows as they grow each month x can be modeled by the
equation 𝑤 = 60𝑥 + 75. What does the model predict for the weight of a cow after 24 months?
Exponentials Growth: Decay:
𝑥
𝑦 = 𝑎(𝑏)
Applications
1. Inflation is at a rate of 7% per year. At the moment, a 9.9 oz bag of Takis cost $4.29. What will they cost in 8
years?
2. HD tvs lose about 15% each year. If your family purchases a new tv for $1050. How much will it be worth in
5 years?
3. In 2012, Omar’s motorcycle was worth $9,500. It is decreasing in value 2.5% each year. What is the
motorcycle worth today?
Use the following to write an exponential equation.
4. 5.
Equation: ________________________________ Equation: ________________________________
Day 3 - Solving Equations
You always want to get the variable by . To do this
you need to each side first, then .
Solve for x. Round to the nearest hundredth.
1. 2𝑥 − 5(𝑥 − 2) = 4(3 − 2𝑥) 2. 7𝑥 + 2(𝑥 + 6) > 39
𝑥
3. 6
+ 7 = 15 4. 2𝑥 − 3(4 + 4𝑥) = − 18
2 2𝑥
5. 𝑥 = 36 6. 3
−5=2
−4(𝑥−10) 2
7. 9
=− 4 8. 𝑥 − 49 = 0
2 𝑥
9. 9𝑥 = 36 10. 8+ 2
= −4
2
11. 24𝑥 − 22 = − 4(1 − 6𝑥) 12. 𝑥 + 2𝑥 − 48 = 0
Day 4 - Solving Equations
Solve. Round to the nearest hundredth.
2 5𝑥
1. 𝑥 − 79 = 2 2. 4
− 7 = 5
2
3. 𝑥 − 2 = 15 4. (𝑥 + 5) = 9
2 3𝑥−1
5. 6𝑥 − 10 = 50 6. 8
=1
𝑥 𝑥
7. |2𝑥 + 8| = 21 8. 2
+ 5
=6
2
9. (𝑥 + 1) − 21 = 4 10. 𝑥 + 4 − 2 = 18
𝑥 𝑥
11. 3𝑥 + 4 − 2 = 2 12. 4
+ 3
= 6
2
13. |5𝑥 − 3| = 13 14. 9𝑥 − 25 = 0
Challenge:
15. (𝑥 + 2)(𝑥 − 2) = 32
Day 5: Simplifying Radicals
1. Simplify.
a) 25 = _________ b) 64 = __________ c) 70 = __________
Perfect Squares:
Simplify the radicals. No decimals.
1. 32 = ___________ 2. 72 = ___________ 3. 180 = ___________
4. 12 = ___________ 5. 3 48 = ___________ 6. 5 20 = ___________
7. 4 18 = ___________ 8. 76 = ___________ 9. 216 = ___________
10. − 2 28 = ___________ 11. − 243 = ___________ 12. 175 = ___________
13. 4 200 = ___________ 14. 768 = ___________ 15. 432 = ___________
16. Solve for x. No decimals!
2 2 2
a) 𝑥 = 54 b) 𝑥 − 98 = 0 c) 4𝑥 = 180
Day 6 - Probability
Theoretical Probability: Experimental Probability:
Examples:
1. P(black) 2. P(striped) 3. P(not white)
4. P(red) 5. P(white or black) 6. P(black or white or striped)
You Try:
7. A bag of marbles has 3 blue, 7 red, 5 yellow, and 1 green marble. Find each of the following probabilities.
P(yellow) = P(green) = P(purple) =
P(red or blue) = P(green or yellow) =
8. Favorite Subjects A survey asked students in the senior class about their favorite class subjects.
Social Foreign
Subject English Science Math Gym No preference
studies language
Number of
26 33 42 15 9 15 25
students
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected student who participated in this survey chose Math as
his or her favorite subject?
b. What is the probability that a randomly selected student who participated in this survey did not
choose Science as his or her favorite subject?
c. What is the probability that a randomly selected student had no preference?
9) There is a 70% chance of snow. What is the probability that it will not snow? Which is more likely to
happen?
10. Favorite Spectator Sport A survey asked students at your school about their favorite spectator sports. The
table shows the results of the survey.
a. What is the probability that a student chose Soccer as his or her favorite spectator sport?
b. What is the probability that a student chose Football or Hockey as his or her favorite spectator sport?
11. Order of Siblings: Two Algebra classes completed a survey about the order of their siblings. The results of
the survey are shown below.
a. What percentage of students in Period 5 are the
Youngest Child?
b. What percentage of the oldest child group are in
Period 8?
c. What percentage of students are the Middle Child?
12. Preferred Pet: Freshmen and Sophomores at North Star High School were asked to choose their preferred
pet, dogs or cats. Their results are shown in the table below.
a. What percentage of students chose Cats?
b. What percentage of the students who chose Dogs are
Sophomores?
c. What percentage of Freshmen chose Dogs?
13. Movie Experience: Adults and Children who attended a recent Pixar movie were asked if they would watch
it again when it came out on Disney+. Their results are shown in the table below.
a. What percentage of Adults chose No?
b. What percentage of all movie-goers were Children?
c. What percentage of those chose Maybe were Adults?
Day 7 - Probability and simplifying radicals practice
Simplify the radicals. No decimals.
1. − 549 = ___________ 2. 963 = ___________ 3. 1, 152 = ___________
4. − 2 180 = ___________ 5. 3 300 = ___________ 6. 8 392 = ___________
7. Solve for x. No decimals!
2
2 2 𝑥
a) 2𝑥 + 20 = 88 b) 3𝑥 − 432 = 0 c) 5
= 60
𝑥 𝑥
d) |𝑥 − 14| − 6 = 12 e) 5𝑥 + 4 − 2 = 10 d) 7
+ 2
= 18
8. Coffee and tea: A survey of adult males and females were asked if they liked coffee and tea. Their results are
shown in the table below.
a. What percentage of females liked tea?
b. What percentage of Males liked Coffee?
c. What percentage of Coffee drinkers were Female?
9. Skateboards vs snowmobiles: A survey of teens asked if they liked skateboards or snowmobiles. Their
results are shown in the table below.
a. How many total teens were surveyed?
b. What percentage of teens like snowmobiles?
c. What percentage of the teens who like
snowmobiles also like skateboards?
d. What percentage of the teens who did not like skateboards also did not like snowmobiles?
10 . Favorite sports: A survey asked people which sport they liked watching the most. Results are shown in the
table below.
a. What percentage of all people surveyed preferred
watching Baseball?
b. What percentage of Football watchers were male?
c. What percentage of Females watch Basketball?
d. What percentage of Basketball watchers were Male?