Which of the following is the correct decimal placement for the product of 1.9 * 0.75?
A. 1.425
B. 14.25
C. 0.01425
D. 0.001425
In the given problem, we use the calculator to evaluate the product 1.9 * 0.75 = 1.425
Therefore, the Correct Answer is A.
More Questions on TEAS 7 Math
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Q #1: A large pizza has a diameter of 12 inches. Which of the following is the area of the pizza in terms of pi ()?
A. 24 πi n2
B. 48 π in2
C. 18π in2
D. 36 π in2
Answer Explanation
Before finding the area of the pizza, we need to find the radius of the pizza.
Find radius of the pizza in terms of diameter
Next, find area of the pizza using the radius of 6 inches
Substituting r=6 in the equation of the area of a circle
Thus, the pizza has an area of 36 π in2.
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Q #2: When the marks of a science test are graphed, the distribution of markss is symmetric with the majority of weights centered around a single peak. Which of the following describes the shape of this distribution?
A. Uniform
B. Skewed right
C. Bell-shaped
D. Bimodal
Answer Explanation
In a bell-shaped curve, the data distribution is symmetric around a single peak. The centering of data around a single peak means the mean, mode and median of the test are all equal to each other.
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Q #3: Five friends are sharing a pizza. Two friend eats a quarter of the pizza. The other three friends equally divide the rest among themselves. What portion of the pizza did each of the other three friends receive?
A. 1/6
B. 1/3
C. ¼
D. 1/5
Answer Explanation
A whole pizza represents 1, and two friends eat ¼ of the pizza. The remaining fraction of pizza is:
Remaining amount =
Thus, 3/4 of pizza is left for three friends to share equally.
Now, the other three friends will each get
So, the other three friends will each get 1/4 of the pizza.
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Q #4: A farmer is planning for a growing season and want to know the trend in amount of rainfall in his area. He obtains rainfall falling in the first 5 months of the year as shown in the above table. Which of the following would best display the data? Month January February March April May Rainfall (mm) 20 6 14 28 34
A. Scatter plot
B. Pie chart
C. Line graph
D. Bar graph
Answer Explanation
Based rainfall falling for the first 5 months, a bar graph will give a great display for the farmer to decide when start planting. The horizontal scale will represent months of the year and vertical scale will present the amount of rainfall falling.
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Q #5: Twelve less than thrice a number Which of the following translates the phrase above into a mathematical expression?
A. 3x - 12
B. 12 - 3x
C. 12x - 2
D. 3x + 12
Answer Explanation
We need to form a mathematical expression from the given word problem.
Let the unknown number be x.
Thrice a number is three times = 3x
Twelve less than thrice a number = 3x-12
Thus, the mathematical expression from the word problem is 3x-12
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Q #6: The scatter plot below shows the relationship between the number of hours a student plays golf and the student’s class attendance. Which of the following types of correlation is shown on the scatter plot?
A. Positive
B. Positive and negative
C. No correlation
D. Negative
Answer Explanation
Scatter plots can depict three correlations: positive, negative and no correlation. A positive correlation scatter plot reveals that as one variable increases, the other variable also increases as shown below
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Q #7: A bucket can hold 5000 mL. How many L can the bucket hold?
A. 500L
B. 5L
C. 50L
D. 0.05L
Answer Explanation
To change between L and mL, the following two options are used.
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Q #8: 3.60*0.75 Simplify the expression above. Which of the following is correct?
A. 0.027
B. 27
C. 0.27
D. 2.7
Answer Explanation
To solve the equation this equation, we compute the multiplication of the two numbers using the calculator
3.60 * 0.75 = 2.7
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Q #9: Which of the following is the correct decimal placement for the product of 1.9 * 0.75?
A. 1.425
B. 14.25
C. 0.01425
D. 0.001425
Answer Explanation
In the given problem, we use the calculator to evaluate the product 1.9 * 0.75 = 1.425
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Q #10: As a person climbing a mountain increases walking speed, the rate of calories burned, height traveled, and energy expended also increase. Which of the following is the independent variable?
A. Walking speed
B. Energy
C. Calories
D. Height
Answer Explanation
An independent variable is a change that when modified brings a change in other variables. In this case, the person increases his climbing rate, calories burned, distance traveled and energy used increases. Therefore, the walking speed is the independent variable while other variables are dependent.
