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Unit 1 Assessment Study Guide

When Julia buys an item from a catalog, the total amount she pays is made up of the following three amounts of

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money:

the price of the item

sales tax of 7% of the price of the item

a fixed shipping fee that is always the same regardless of the cost or size of the order

Julia bought a pair of shoes with a price of $120 from the catalog.

What was the sales tax, in dollars, that Julia paid on the shoes?

The total amount, including the sales tax and the shipping fee, that Julia paid for the shoes was

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$140. What was the shipping fee, in dollars?

Suppose the shipping fee is $15. If Julia bought an item with a price of $300 from the catalog,

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with a sales tax of 5%, what is the total amount she paid, in dollars, including the sales tax and

the shipping fee?

The Joker family has half as many pepper plants as tomato

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plants. Using the graph below, if there are 21 plants in their

garden, how many plants are tomato plants? How do you know?

A biology teacher asked four of his students to measure the

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distance that a caterpillar crawled over a period of three nights.

Each student rounded the measurement

to a different decimal place and reported the findings shown below.

The teacher calculated a sum that represented the

precision of the students’ measurements. What sum

should the teacher have calculated?

Four students in art class measured the length of a

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piece of paper needed for a project. They used a

measuring tape with scale increments like those

shown.

The result of the student measurements are shown in the table.

Student Measurements

Student

Measurement

Which student’s measurement is the m ost accurate to use, based

14 cm

on the tape used?

14.2 cm

14.33 cm

14.45 cm

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