How to find the answer from a table

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ISEE Upper Level Mathematics Achievement › How to find the answer from a table

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The following is a portion of the menu at a coffee shop:

A boss treats her employees to coffee at this coffee shop. She orders three lattes, three Americanos, two espressos, a cappucino, and a Turkish coffee. The tax is . The boss hands the cashier a bill. How much change will she get back?

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Classroom table

Jefferson Elementary School has seven eighth-grade teachers; each teacher has the number of boys and girls listed above.

How many teachers have classes in which at least 40% of the students are boys?

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Classroom table

Washington Elementary School has seven eighth-grade teachers; each teacher has the number of boys and girls listed above.

An eighth-grade girl has transferred from another school. It is desired that no teacher have more than thirty students overall or eighteen girls in his or her class. Of the seven teachers, how many could accept the girl into his or her class?

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Pie_graph

Refer to the above circle graph. There are voters registered as independents in Smith County; to the nearest hundred, how many voters in all are registered?

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Scrabble

A popular word game uses one hundred tiles, each of which is marked with a letter or a blank. The distribution of the tiles is shown above, with each letter paired with the number of tiles marked with that letter. Notice that there are two blank tiles.

All of the consonant tiles are placed in a box. It is desired to place just enough of the vowel tiles so that the probability of drawing a vowel is . How many vowels must be placed in the box?

Note: for purposes of this question, "Y" is a consonant.

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High and low

Refer to the above graph, which shows the high and low temperatures for Kingdom City over a one-week period. The temperatures at left are given in degrees Fahrenheit.

Temperatures given in degrees Fahrenheit can be converted to the Celsius scale using the formula

Express the highest temperature of the week in degrees Celsius (nearest whole degree).

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Nine students are running for student council; each member of the student body will vote for four. Freida's boyfriend Greg is running and she wants to vote for him. How many ways can she cast a ballot so that she can include Greg among her choices?

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Temperature

Refer to the above graph, which shows the high temperatures in the town of Smithville over seven days.

On how many days that week did Smithville see a peak temperature 75 degrees or greater?

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The beverage menu from a restaurant reads as follows:

Ten friends go out for drinks. They order four sodas, two coffees, two iced teas, a milk, and a hot tea. One of the ten agrees to leave the entire amount of the tip, which is to be 20% of the check. What is the amount of the tip (round to the nearest dime)?

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Temperature

Refer to the above graph, which shows the high temperatures in the town of Smithville over seven days.

Which day of this week saw the highest peak temperature?

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