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Algebra Basics: Place-Out Exam

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1.

What is the simplified value of

0.625×3.5×2.6×1.2?0.625 \times 3.5 \times 2.\overline{6} \times 1.2?

2.

Moe R. can finish cutting a lawn in 33 hours. Fynn Isher can cut the same lawn in 22 hours. How many minutes will it take them to mow the lawn if they work together?

3.

Two runners are running clockwise around a circular track. If they start at the same time and at the same position, after 4.54.5 minutes, the faster runner will have covered 11 more lap than the slower runner, with each having covered an integer number of laps in that time. The slower runner doesn't get passed until after he finishes a lap. The time it takes each of them to finish one lap is an integer number of seconds.

How many more seconds does it take the slower runner to finish one lap compared with the faster runner?

4.

Sam's little sister is playing a game called Counting Apples. Her rating for the game changes like this:

• Rises by 10%10\% from the beginning of Day 11 to the end of Day 11

• Falls by 10%10\% from the beginning of Day 22 to the end of Day 22

• Rises by 10%10\% from the beginning of Day 33 to the end of Day 33

• Falls by 10%10\% from the beginning of Day 44 to the end of Day 44

• Rises by 10%10\% from the beginning of Day 55 to the end of Day 5.5.

Overall, what is the percent change in her rating from the beginning of Day 11 to the end of Day 5,5, rounded to the nearest whole number?

5.

Find the value of a positive number xx that makes the following true:

x% of x equals 1.x\% \text{ of } x \text{ equals } 1.

6.

Jeremy has a pile of identical socks, each of which is either completely clean or completely dirty, and 20%20\% of the socks in the pile are completely clean. If he adds 7070 more identical dirty socks to the pile, then 10%10\% of the socks in the pile will be clean.

How many dirty socks were in the pile in the beginning?

7.

If 1616 horses eat 55 stacks of hay in 3535 days, how many horses can eat 44 stacks of hay in 88 days?

8.

The number 0.5503×0.5503×0.55030.5503 \times 0.5503 \times 0.5503 is close to 1n,\frac{1}{n}, where nn is an integer. What is the value of nn that is closest to this number?

9.

At the soccer team pizza party, the kids who came early evenly split the cost of the pizza, which altogether cost $80.\$80. Four late kids came, and they pitched in to share the cost of the pizza, with each of them paying $0.25\$0.25 to each of the kids who were originally there, so that in the end everyone paid the same amount. How many kids were there in the beginning?

10.

What is the largest fraction which is less than (and not equal to) 12\frac{1}{2} but whose numerator and denominator are positive integers less than or equal to 100?100?

Your answer should be a fraction in simplest terms, e.g. 2/3