math quiz

6. Research funding at WSU increased 40 percent this year to $218 million. What was the funding last year?
130,800,000

7. Joe Smith wants to build a 2,500-square-foot house for him. The builder tells him it will cost $112 a square foot to build. How much will the house cost?
280,000

8. Desperate for revenue, the government decides to increase the tax on beer. The tax was 5 percent. But now it's jumped to 6 percent.

     a. What’s the percent increase?
          20%
b. What’s the percentage increase?
         1
9. Parents are always worried about the safety of their college student. But is Pullman safer than other areas? Let's say Pullman had 183 assaults last year. Spokane had 502. Spokane has 200,000 people. Pullman has 25,000. How do we compare those two numbers? Is the average person more likely to be assaulted in Spokane or Pullman? (Again, not real figures.) How much more likely?
 More likely to be safe in Spokane

10. Five houses sold in your neighborhood for the following prices: $225,000; $207,000; $3.2 million; $129,000; $192,000.
a. What’s the mean price?
790,600
     b. What’s the median?
225,000
     c. Which is a more accurate measure of the typical home price?
Mean