9th grade math test

1.If Sally places a rocket that is 3 feet 6 inches tall atop a launch pad that is 1 foot 8 inches tall, how tall will the entire unit, rocket and launch pad, be when she is done? · 5 feet 4 inches · 5 feet 2 inches · 1 foot 8 inches · 4 feet 2 inches 2.Glenn needs 1,500 boards to build a small rocket. Each board must be 3 feet long. If boards are sold in 12 foot lengths, how many boards must Glenn buy and cut into 3 foot pieces to get the 1,500 he needs?**NOTE : Please ignore the kerf (the width of the cut a saw makes, often about an eighth of an inch)   · 42 · 125 · 375 · 500 3.What is 1 1/2 divided by 1/2?  · 5 · 2 · 3 · 4 4. What is 12.8 divided by .04? · 32 · 320 · 3.2 · .32 5.On a number line, which of these numbers would be the farthest to the right? · 0.001 · 0.0015 · 0.00099 · 0.0005 6.These were the low temperatures recorded for January 15 in these cities: Minneapolis ...... - 6 degrees Cleveland ........ 5 degrees Fargo ............ -11 degrees Chicago .......... 2 degrees Milwaukee ........ - 3 degrees Detroit .......... - 1 degrees Which city had the low temperature closest to 0 degrees? · Cleveland · Chicago · Milwaukee · Detroit 7. Which statement is correct? · 27% < 1/4 (Twenty seven percent is less than one fourth) · 12% = 1/8 (Twelve percent is equal to one eighth) · 3 3/5 = 335% (Three and three fifths is equal to three hundred thirty five percent) · 2/3 > 66% (Two thirds is greater than sixty six percent) 8. Solve for n. 3/n = 7/12  · 1 3/4 · 5 1/7 · 7 · 28 9. If the scale on a road map is 1 inch = 250 miles, how many inches would represent 1250 miles? · 2 · 5 · 7.5 · 15 10.If the ratio of boys to girls is 5 to 8 and there are 40 girls, which proportion should you use to calculate the number of boys? 5/8 = 40/b 5/40 = 8/b 8/40 = b/5 5/8 = b/40 11. Round 12.5861 to the nearest hundredth. · 12.586 · 12.59 · 12.60 · 13.00 12. Erv ran the 110 meter high hurdles in 13.27 seconds. His teammate Willie ran the same race in 12.91 seconds. Rounded to the nearest tenth of a second, how much faster was Willie's time? · 0.3 seconds · 0.36 seconds · 0.4 seconds · 1.0 seconds 13. Roger had to pack videotapes 10 to a box. If he had 178 tapes of one kind and 121 of another kind, how many boxes would he need in order to pack them all and not mix the different types? · 13 boxes · 18 boxes · 30 boxes · 31 boxes 14. Which problem has an answer of 25%? 10 is what percent of 50? 25 is what percent of 75? 25 is what percent of 125? 20 is what percent of 80? 15. If a $900 computer is on sale for 20% off, what is the sale price? · $180.00 · $720.00 · $855.00 · $1,080.00 16. Mareta put $4,000.00 in a savings account at an annual interest rate of 5.5%. How much interest will the principal earn in 1 year? · $22.00 · $55.00 · $110.00 · $220.00 17. Which object is matched with its appropriate unit of measurement? Milligrams for the weight of a textbook Kilometers for the length of a sailboat Grams for the mass of a nickel Liters for the capacity of a reservoir 18. Which statement is NOT correct? · 96 cups = 6 gallons · 9 days = 216 hours · 84 ounces = 7 pounds · 2 miles = 10,560 feet 19.A loaded moving van weighs 5 tons. How many pounds would 10 loaded moving vans weigh? · 50 pounds · 10,000 pounds · 50,000 pounds · 100,000 pounds 20. Roberta left for her dancing class at 3:45 p.m. Her dancing school is a 15 minute walk from her house, and her class lasted one and one half hours. What time did she get home if she went straight home? · 5:15 p.m. · 5:30 p.m. · 5:45 p.m. · 6:15 p.m. 21. About how many more degrees must the temperature rise to reach 50 degrees? · 3 degrees · 8 degrees · 10 degrees · 13 degrees 22. What is the measure of this angle? · 0 degrees · 100 degrees · 135 degrees · 160 degrees 23. If a pencil were 7.5 centimeters long, where would its point end on this centimeter ruler? · A · B · C · D 24. Which of these line segments are parallel? · Two adjacent sides of a triangle · Two adjacent sides of a pentagon · Two opposite sides of a rectangle · Two radii of a circle 25. A triangle with one 90 degree angle is always · an equilateral triangle · an acute triangle · an obtuse triangle · a right triangle 26. Mr. Jordan wants to put up a fence all the way across the middle of his round vegetable garden. If the radius of the garden is 3 feet, how many feet of fencing will Mr. Jordan need to buy? · 1.5 feet · 3 feet · 6 feet · 9.42 feet 27. Mrs. Bosley wants a big round piece of plastic to throw over her little boy's round sandbox to keep the sand clean. The sandbox has a diameter of 3 meters. Approximately how big will the round piece of plastic need to be? · 7 square meters · 10 square meters · 19 square meters · 27 square meters 28. A rectangle with a perimeter of 24 inches might have adjacent sides measuring 6 inches and 4 inches 11 inches and 13 inches 9 inches and 3 inches 2 inches and 12 inches 29. How much water will fit in an aquarium that is shaped like a box and is 10 inches high, 6 inches wide, and 14 inches long? 60 cubic inches 140 cubic inches 420 cubic inches 840 cubic inches 30. What is the surface area of a rectangular solid whose length is 6 centimeters, depth is is 5 centimeters, and height is 4 centimeters? · 120 square centimeters · 148 square centimeters · 160 square centimeters · 208 square centimeters