Name:____________________________

Date:_______________

Unit One
A large crowd has gathered to watch a free Lil Wayne concert at Piedmont Park.
Barricades have been put up around the stage around to mark off a seating space that is
250ft wide and 375ft long. You know from class that 15 people can fit into a 35ft2 space.

1. What is the area of the seating space (labeled seating area)?

2. Based on the information above, set up a proportion that that can be used to identify
how many people are at the concert.

3. Using your proportion from problem 2, identify how many people can sit in the
seating space at the Lil Wayne concert. SHOW YOUR WORK!!

4. What is the height, width, and area of a 42 inch television with an aspect ratio of 4:3?

Height:___________

Width:___________

Area:___________

5. Fill in the chart with the information you know about tire sizes, then answer questions
6 and 7 based off of your chart.
Tire

P235/75R16

P245/75R20

Width (mm)

Aspect Ratio (%)

Height (inches)

Diameter (inches)
Player
Mikey
Branson
Brad
Winger
Randy
Sellars
Paul
Horst

Games

At

Hits

Circumference
Bats
(inches)
27
135
97

Singles

Doubles

Triples

45

10

30

Home
Runs
12

32

150

70

13

27

10

20

29

138

105

65

30

20

100

47

43

Batting
Average

Slugging
Average

6. Set up a ratio of the circumference of the biggest tire to the circumference of the
smallest tire.

7. Which tire will travel the most distance when rotated one time? How do you know?

8. Use what you know about batting averages and slugging averages to fill in the blanks
on the chart. Then use your chart to answer the questions below.

9. If Jordan has 33 singles, 11 doubles, and 40 triples in 310 at bats, how many
homeruns would he need to have in order to have a slugging average of 0.880?

10. Using the table below, identify the formative grade average, summative grade average, and
then the final nine-week average for each student. Remember that summative grades are 45%
and formative grades are 55% of your final grade average.
Grade Type/Student

Mikey

Jamie

Formative #1

78

95

Formative #2

73

94

Formative #3

84

100

Formative #4

95

93

Summative #1

78

87

Summative #2

97

98

Mikey
Formative Grade Average:________

Jamie
Formative Grade Average:________

Summative Grade Average:________

Summative Grade Average:________

Final Nine Week Average:________

Final Nine Week Average:________

11. If each person received a 90 on the next test (summative), whose grade would it help the
most?

12. Brad scored a 77, 65, and 80 on the first three tests in his College Algebra class. If each test
were worth 15% of his grade, what grade would he need to make on his final exam worth
55% of his grade in order to get a B in the class (80%)?