82 Chapter 1 Whole Numbers 98. At one point in his baseball career, Alex Rodriquez signed a contract for $252,000,000 for a 9-year period. Suppose federal taxes amount to $75,600,000 for the contract. After taxes, how much did Alex receive per year? 99. Aletha wants to buy plants for a rectangular garden in her backyard that measures 12 ft by 8 ft. She wants to divide the garden into 2-square-foot 12 ft22 areas, one for each plant. a. How many plants should Aletha buy? b. If the plants cost $3 each, how much will it cost Aletha for the plants? c. If she puts a fence around the perimeter of the garden that costs $2 per foot, how much will it cost for the fence? d. What will be Aletha’s total cost for this garden? 100. Find the mean (average) for the set of numbers 7, 6, 12, 5, 7, 6, 13. 101. Carolyn’s electric bills for the past 5 months have been $80, $78, $101, $92, and $94. Find her average monthly charge. 102. The table shows the number of homes sold by a realty company in the last 6 months. Determine the average number of houses sold per month for these 6 months. Number of Month Houses May 6 June 9 July 11 August 13 September 5 October 4 Chapter 1 Test 1. Determine the place value for the underlined digit. a. b. c. d. 492 23,441 2,340,711 340,592 2. Fill in the table with either the word name for the number or the number in standard form. 3. Translate the phrase by writing the numbers in standard form and inserting the appropriate inequality. Choose from or . a. Fourteen is greater than six. b. Seventy-two is less than eighty-one. For Exercises 4–17, perform the indicated operation. 4. 5. 154 4908 41 6. 7. 8. 9. 58 49 149 298 10. 11. 324 15 3002 2456 12. 13. 840 42 10,984 2881 82 4 51 78 Population Standard State / Province Form Word Name a. Kentucky Four million, three hundred sixty-five thousand b. Texas 25,675,000 c. Pennsylvania 12,750,000 d. New Brunswick, Seven hundred Canada fifty-three thousand e. Ontario, Canada 13,520,000
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