Math 20-2 Review Outline

Objective 1: Solve problems that involve the application of rates.

1. 6 cobs of corn cost $2.05. What is the unit cost for a cob of corn?

2. What is the better buy, 5 lbs of chicken for $8.00 or chicken at $3.75 / kg?

3. Your internet company offers you 125 GB of data download for $42.99. What is the rate per GB of
download?

4. A nurse needs to give a certain medication that comes in a 220 ml bottle and contains 75 mg of the
medication. How many ml does the nurse need to give the patient in an hour so the patient gets 22 mg of
the medication per hour.

Objective 2: Solve problems that involve scale diagrams, using proportional reasoning.

1. A company has a poster that they want to make into a billboard. If the width of the poster is 24 inches
and the width of the billboard is 28 feet. By what factor does the company have to enlarge the poster for
the billboard?

2. A designer is drawing a blueprint for a new kitchen as shown below.

3 cm

4 cm

2 cm

5 cm

If the scale of the blueprint is 1:125, determine the area of the new kitchen.
 3. An architect is building a scale model of a new apartment building. If the height of the model is 40 cm
and the scale model was built using a scale of 1: 60, what will be the height of the actual apartment
building?

Objective 3: Demonstrate an understanding of the rela1. tionships among scale factors, areas, surface areas and
volumes of similar 2-D shapes and 3-D objects.

1. A bakery makes mini cakes and large cakes. The larger cake is similar to the mini cake. If the diameter
of the mini cake is 3 inches and the diameter of the large cake is 12 inches, how much larger is the
volume of the large cake compared to the mini cake?

2. A square pizza as an area of 100 cm2 and a larger square pizza has an area of 900 cm2. What is the linear
scale factor between the small pizza to the larger pizza?

3. A circle has its radius increased by a scale factor of 8, how much larger is the area of the new circle
compared to the area of the original circle?

Objective 4: Derive proofs that involve the properties of angles and triangles.

1. If AE and BD bisect each other and AB = ED, prove that triangle ABC is congruent to triangle EDC.
 2. Which congruency measure (ASA, SAS, SSS, HSR) would be used to prove that
a. triangle JKL is congruent to triangle NML?
b. triangle OLN is congruent to triangle MNL?
c. triangle QTR is congruent to triangle SRT?

Objective 5: Solve problems that involve properties of angles and triangles.

1. Determine all the missing angles in the following diagrams:

Objective 6: Solve problems that involve the cosine law and the sine law.

1. Determine the indicated side or angle in each triangle to the nearest tenth of a unit:
 2. In a parallelogram, the measure of the obtuse angle is 116°. The adjacent sides, containing the angle,
measure 40 cm and 22 cm, respectively. Determine the length of the longest diagonal.

Objective 7: Analyze and prove conjectures, using inductive and deductive reasoning, to solve problems.

1. The following numbers form a pattern: 37, 36, 34, 31, ____, 22, 16, 9
The missing term in the pattern is _______ .

2. Blake claimed that all odd numbers can be expressed as the sum of three prime numbers.

Find a counter-example to disprove the conjecture.

3. From the information provided, find the names and positions of the first eight to finish the marathon.
Sean finishes the marathon in fourth place; he finishes after John, but before Sandra. Sandra finishes
before Robert but after Liam. John finishes after Rick but before Alex. Anne finishes two places after
Alex. Liam is sixth to finish the race.
Answer:

1st –
2nd –
3rd –
4th –
5th –
6th –
7th –
8th –
 4. Find a counterexample to show that the following statement is false:
All prime numbers are odd.

Objective 8: Analyze puzzles and games that involve spatial reasoning, using problem-solving strategies.

1. How many total rectangles are shown in the following diagram?

2. Determine Sets. There are four categories to determine Sets:

a. Color: All have same color or all have different colors.
b. Shape: All have same shape or all have different shapes.
c. Fill: All have the same pattern fill or all have different pattern fills
d. Number of Shapes: All have the same number or all have different numbers.
 3. Fill in the following Sudoku:

Objective 9: Solve problems that involve operations on radicals and radical expressions with numerical and
variable radicands.

1. Simplify 18 + 32 .

2. Simplify (
18 2 6 − 3 )

15 10
3. Simplify
5 2

(
4. Simplify and state the restrictions on the variable: − 3 x 2 2 x − 3 x )
 5. Simplify 2 x ( x +4 x ) 5

Objective 10: Solve problems that involve radical equations (limited to square roots or cube roots).

1. Solve the following equation: x+3 = 2

2. Solving algebraically for the value of x in the radical equation 3 x + 1 + 1 = x and state the restrictions on
the variable x.

3. Solve the following equation and state the extraneous root: x −1 = x − 7

Objective 11: Demonstrate an understanding of normal distribution, including:
• standard deviation
• z-scores.

1. Everyday at basketball practice, the coach has the players practice shooting 25 free throws, here are the
results for Alex, Carter and David last week:

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Alex 15 17 14 18 14
Carter 21 24 11 15 19
David 6 14 8 17 10

a. Determine the mean and standard deviation for the number of free throws that each player
makes.

b. Which player is the most consistent free throw shooter?

2. A company is doing some tests on bags of candy. They find that the mean of the bags is 201 g with a
standard deviation of 1.2 g. Bag 1 has a mass of 201.6 g and Bag 2 has a z-score of 1.57. Which ball is
heavier?

3. An MP3 player has a two-year warranty and the lifespan follows a normal distribution. The mean
lifespan of the player is 3.4 years with a standard deviation of 0.48 years.
a. What percentage of MP3 players will be returned under warranty?

b. If the store sells 1000 MP3 players, how many will be returned under warranty?

4. A lawn mower manufacturer knows that their lawn mowers are normally distributed with a mean of 7.2
years and a standard deviation of 1.4 years. If the company does not want to replace more than 3% of its
lawn mowers under warranty, what warranty, to the nearest necessary year should the company offer?
Objective 12: Interpret statistical data, using:
• confidence intervals
• confidence levels
• margin of error.

1. A survey was conducted and the survey company found different margins of error for different sample
sizes. The following table is wrong, match up the correct samples sizes with their margins of error.

Sample Size Margin of Error (%)

900 1.96
1600 2.45
2500 3.27
2. In a recent poll, 81% of Canadians indicated that they support bilingualism in Canada and that they want
Canada to remain a bilingual country. This poll was reported accurate ± 2.2% , 19 times out of 20.
Based on the information in the poll, we can be 95% confident that the actual level of support of all
Canadians is between what two percentages?

Objective 13: Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of quadratic functions, including:

• vertex
• intercepts
• domain and range
• axis of symmetry.

1. Determine the coordinates of the vertex, to the nearest tenth, of the quadratic function:
y = −2 x 2 + 3 x − 1
a. Determine if the quadratic function has a maximum or a minimum.

2. Given that the x-intercepts of the graph of a quadratic function are –3 and 5, determine the axis of
symmetry.

3. Determine the domain and range of the quadratic function: y = −2( x + 1) 2 − 4 .

 4. Sketch the graph of the quadratic function: y = −2( x + 1) 2 − 4 on the grid below.
a. Determine the coordinates of the vertex.
b. Determine the axis of symmetry.

Objective 14: Solve problems that involve quadratic equations.

1. Solve the following quadratic equation by factoring: x 2 + 3 x + 2 = 0

2. Solve the following quadratic equation using the quadratic formula: x 2 + 10 x + 7 = 0 . Write your
answer in simplest form.

3. Solve the following quadratic equation, to the nearest tenth by graphing: x 2 + 10 x + 7 = 0 .