Lesson 11: Practice Problems

Problem 1 From Unit 5 Lesson 9

Find the value of each variable.

$a \cdot 3 = - 30$
$- 9 \cdot b = 45$
$- 89 \cdot 12 = c$
$d \cdot 88 = - 88, 000$

Problem 2

Match each equation to its solution and to the story it describes.

Equations:

$5 x - 7 = 3$
$7 = 3 (5 + x)$
$3 x + 5 = - 7$
$\frac{1}{3} (x + 7) = 5$

Solutions:

-4
$\frac{- 8}{3}$
2
8

Stories:

The temperature is $- 7$ . Since midnight the temperature tripled and then rose 5 degrees. What was temperature at midnight?
Jada has 7 pink roses and some white roses. She gives all of them away: 5 roses to each of her 3 favorite teachers. How many white roses did she give away?
A musical instrument company reduced the time it takes for a worker to build a guitar. Before the reduction it took 5 hours. Now in 7 hours they can build 3 guitars. By how much did they reduce the time it takes to build each guitar?
A club puts its members into 5 groups for an activity. After 7 students have to leave early, there are only 3 students left to finish the activity. How many students were in each group?

Problem 3

The baby giraffe weighed 132 pounds at birth. He gained weight at a steady rate for the first 7 months until his weight reached 538 pounds. How much did he gain each month?

Problem 4

Six teams are out on the field playing soccer. The teams all have the same number of players. The head coach asks for 2 players from each team to come help him move some equipment. Now there are 78 players on the field. Write and solve an equation whose solution is the number of players on each team.

Problem 5 From Unit 4 Lesson 7

A small town had a population of 960 people last year. The population grew to 1200 people this year. By what percentage did the population grow?

A double number line for “number of people” with 11 evenly spaced tick marks. The top number line, starting with the first tick mark, has the numbers zero, 120, 240, 360, 480, 600, 720, 840, 960, 1080 and 1200 labeled. On the bottom number line zero percent is on the first tick mark and the remaining tick marks are not labeled.

Problem 6 From Unit 4 Lesson 7

The gas tank of a truck holds 30 gallons. The gas tank of a passenger car holds 50% less. How many gallons does it hold?

A double number line for “gas in gallons” with 4 evenly spaced tick marks. The top number line, starting with the first tick mark, has the numbers zero; the remaining tick marks are not labeled. The bottom number line, starting with the first tick mark, has zero percent, 50 percent, 100 percent, and 150 percent labeled.