MCAS 1999, 10th Grade Math, Questions 21-24

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Question #21 (Open-Response Question)

CD Club #1: You will receive four free CDs for joining the club. You must purchase at least four CDs within the next year at the club price. The club price for each CD is $11.99.

CD Club #2: You will receive five free CDs for joining the club. You must purchase at least four CDs within the next year at the club price. The club price for each CD is $13.99.

a. Suppose you plan to get a total of nine CDs from one of the clubs by the end of the year.

b. Copy and complete the table below in your Student Answer Booklet [editor's note: on any piece of paper].

c. Represent the data from your completed table for the two CD clubs by plotting a graph on the grid in your Student Answer Booklet [editor's note: on any piece of graph paper].

d. Compare the two offers and explain which is the most economical.


Question #22 (Open-Response Question)

A company is hired to clean up an oil spill in a harbor. Each day 10% of the remaining oil can be cleaned from the surface of the water.

a. What percent of the oil spill will remain after one clean-up day?

b. What percent of the oil spill will remain after 3 clean-up days? Explain or show how you got your answer.

c. How many clean-up days will it take to remove at least 50% of the oil spill? Explain or show how you found your answer.


Question #23

Use the diagram below to answer question 23.

If the figure EFGH is translated 10 units down, what are the new coordinates of the image of point F?

A. (6, -2)

B. (-4, 8)

C. (8, 6)

D. (-4, -2)


Question #24

A bag contains 80 marbles that are either white, orange, or green. If 25% are green and there are four times as many white marbles as orange marbles, what percent are white?

A. 12%

B. 15%

C. 48%

D. 60%


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