Session 3. Working with Decimal Numbers.

1. A cyclist has cycled 145.8 km in the first stage; 136.65 in the second one
and 162.62 in the third one. How many kilometers does he still have to
cycle to complete 1,000 km?
2. 184.5 liters are taken from a water deposit on Monday night; 128.75 are
taken on Tuesday and finally 84.5 liters are taken on Wednesday,
remaining in the deposit 160 liters. How much water was there in the
deposit on Monday morning? Use FIX 1.
3. You have 240 boxes with 25 coffee bags each. If each bag weighs 0.62
grams, what is the total weight of the 240 coffee boxes?
4. If one kilo of avocados is $1,890, how much do you have to pay for 0.75
kilos? USE FIX 0
5. According to the chemical analysis, we know that some of the
components of the blood plasma are:
Mineral salts=
Urea
=
Uric acid
=

9.25 grams for every liter of blood

0.3 grams for every liter of blood
0.03 grams for every liter of blood

A laboratory received 10 liters of blood plasma. Calculate the quantity of:

mineral salts, urea and urea acid that is contained there.
6. Eva is on a diet and she cant eat more than 600 calories in each meal.
Yesterday she ate 125 grams of bread, 140 grams of asparagus, 45
grams of cheese and an apple of 130 grams.
1 gram
Bread
Cheese
Asparagus
apple

calories
3.3
1.2
0.32
0.52

Did Eva keep her diet regime properly?

7. A man goes cycling in the morning and at night. In the morning he cycles
7.9 km in 0.5 hours (30 minutes) and in the afternoon cycles 2.48 km in
0.2 hours (12 minutes). If he dedicates 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.2
hours in the afternoon doing this activity, how many kilometers does he
cover altogether? Use FIX 1

8. Some copper plates are stacked in a garage. One is 0.7 mm, three are
2.4 mm and five are 1,75 mm. How high is this copper plate stack? Use
FIX 1
9. Race car (PISA 2003 question)

a. What is the approximate distance from the starting line to the

beginning of the straight longest line of the lane?
b. During the second lap, where was the lowest speed registered? What
speed is the registered?
c. What can be said about the speed of the car between km 2.6 and
2.8?
10.The GNP (gross national product) represents the sum of all the goods
and services produced in a country during one year, either by national
producers or foreign residents.

a. What is the percentage of variation of the GNP accumulated from

1997 until 2009?
b. What is the average of the percentage of variation of the last ten
years? (average: division among the sum of the numbers and the
total amount of numbers)
c. Which are the three years with the biggest GNP growth?

11.A building has 14 floors. Each floor is 2.3 meter high. How tall is the
building?

Multiple Choice:
12.Don Jorge sells cement to construction companies. The sales registered
during four months are the following: first month 18.2 tons, second
month 21.4 tons, third month 16.6 tons and fourth month 14.6 tons.
What is the monthly average of tons sold?
a. 8.9
c. 18.7
e. 70.8
b. 17.7
d. 35.4
13.A Chilean company dedicated to salmon processing grows two varieties
of this fish: Atlantic salmon and Coho salmon. In average the Atlantic
salmon weighs 2.4 kilos and the Coho salmon weighs 2.8. The company
gets a request of 82 units of Atlantic salmon and 76 units of salmon
Coho. In order to dispatch the request, the salmon has to be packed in
special boxes to keep be cold which have a capacity of 15 kilos each.
How many boxes have to be dispatched to fulfill with the request?
a. 3
b.
14
c.
15
d.
27
e.
28
14.A pet food company has a total of 7,200 kilos of dog food, which are kept
in 4.5-kilo bags. It also has 5,400 kilos of cat food, which are kept in 2.5kilo bags. How many bags do they need to keep all the food?
a. 1,600
c.
2,160
e.
5,360
b. 1,880
d.
3,760
15.A person covers 5.12 meters every five minutes. How many meters does
he cover in 1.5 hours. Use FIX 1
a. 7.7
c. 66.6
e.
115.2
b. 46.1
d. 92.2
16.The Ortiz family uses in average approximately 878.4 liters of water
each day in the month of May 2012. How many liters of water do they
use in the entire month of May? (May =31 days)
a. 13,615.2
c.
26,352.0
e.
27,540,4
b. 26,340.0
d.
27,230.4
17.The temperature at 20:00 is 10.4 C. We know that the temperature
decreases 0.26C every 16 minutes. What will the temperature be at
23:00? Use FIX 1
a. -0.8
b.
2.9
c.
7.5
d.
8.5
e.
9.6
18.A company makes phone cable, which is sold in rolls of 75.4 meters. The
company was requested 16 rolls of phone cable. How many meters were
delivered in total?
a. 1,192.0
c.
1,206.4
e.
1,222.4
b. 1,200.0
d.
1,216.0

19.The owner of a store buys 100 kilos of lentils and decides to store them
in 0.5-kilo bags. If she sells each bag for $1,050, how much will she earn
selling all the lentil bags?
a. $52,500
c.
$240,000
e.
$420,000
b. $210,000
d.
$400,000
20.The average performance of a certain racing car on the highway is 14.5
km per every liter of gasoline. If at a certain moment the tank contains
9.8 liters of gas, how many kilometers will the car run with the gas in the
tank?
a. 1.5
c.
71.1
e.
284.2
b. 24.3
d.
142.1
21.Laura has $6,000 every week to buy gasoline. If the price of gas is $789
per liter, how many liters can she buy with that money in a month (4
weeks)? Use FIX 1
a. 7.6
b.
22.8
c. 30.0
d. 30.4
e.
32.0
22.Andres has a van to freight in the region where he lives. He charges
$415 per kilometer and does not freight cargo for more than 112.6
kilometers. During a week he made two trips of 86.5 kilometers each
and three trips of 108.52 kilometers each. Besides he accepted cargo
freight for 128.2 km but he charges an additional $615 per every extra
kilometer. How much money does Andres get for this weeks work? Use
FIX 0
a. $206,819
c. 263,225
e. 285,662
b. $253,963
d. 272,736
23.Rita is a chemist and she is bottling a new perfume. To do so she gives
away 2.5 liters in small bottles as free samples of 0.2 ml each. How
many bottles can she fill up with all the available perfume? (1 liter =
1,000 ml)
a. 400
c.
10,000
e.
25,000
b. 5,000
d.
12,500
24.An object is thrown from the roof of a 15-floor building. Each floor has an
average height of 2.63 meters, except for the hall of the building, which
is 3.42 meters tall. How many meters does the object fall? USE FIX 1
a. 39.5
b.
40.2
c.
42.9
d.43.7
e.84.7
25.Based on this survey on delinquency, answer the following questions:

a. What do the percentages that appear in the graph add to?

b. How do you explain that the total of the percentages is over 100%?
c. What percentage has been victim of an offense?
26.Sergio bought vegetables in the market for his restaurant. 8 boxes of
tomatoes, 6 boxes of avocado and 5 boxes of potatoes. Each box of
tomatoes weighs 8.6 kilos, each box of avocados weighs 7.4 kilos and
each box of potatoes weighs 6.2 kilos. The van where Sergio travels can
carry a maximum of 250 kilos. If Sergio weighs 85.3 kilos, can he carry
all the vegetables that he bought in the van? Why?
27.Maria wants to paint her bedroom. She established that two of the walls
that she wants to paint are 5.2 x 2.4 meters each and the other two are
4.1 x2.4 meters each. The painter that she hired told her that with one
gallon of paint she can paint 4.3 m 2 .How many gallons of paint will
Maria have to buy to paint her bedroom?
28.Luis and Carlos decide to participate in a running in the city of Santiago
for their company. To support them, their boss decides to hire a coach
that visits them three times a week and trains them for 2.12 hours every
day.
a. If the coach is hired for four weeks and is paid $8,540 per each hour
that he worked, what is the total amount paid by the company to the
coach during this month of training? Use FIX 0
b. The day of the event Luis completed the circuit in 4.72 hours and
Carlos in 4.54 hours. To award them, the company decides to give
them a bonus of $9,220 and 11,540, accordingly, per every hour of
their circuit. What is the bonus that each one gets?
c. Carlos got third place and the winner of the race completed the
circuit in 4.14 hours. How many minutes did Carlos miss to win the
race?
29.Area and perimeter

Considering that the angles of the figures are straight and of the same
size

a. Which figure has the most area?

b. Which figure has the largest perimeter?
30.A turtle moves 1.17 meters per minute. How many meters it will have
moved in 12.5 minutes? Use FIX 1

ANSWERS:
1) 554.93 km
2) 557.8 L
3) 3,720 kg
4) 1,418
5) M = 92.5 g, U = 3 g, UAcid = 0.3 g
6) 580 cal, she did.
7) 38.6 km
8) 16.7 mm
9) a) 1.3 km, b) 1.3 km and was 60km/H, c) it increased
10)
a) 45.6% b) 3.6% c)1997, 2004, 2005
11)
32.2 m
12)
b) 17.7
13)
e) 28
14)
d) 3760
15)
d) 92.2
16)
d) 27,330.4
17)
c) 7.5
18)
c) 1206.4
19)
b) 210,000
20)
d) 142.1
21)
d) 30.4 L
22)
c) 263,225
23)
d) 12,500
24)
b) 40.2
25)
a) 154.2%, b) more than one crime per person, c) 100-44.9 =
55.1%
26)
Yes, because the weight doesnt exceed the maximum capacity

27)
28)
29)
30)

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a) 217,258 b) 43,518 and 52,392 c) 24 min
a) Figure I, b) they all have the same perimeter
14.6 m