This document contains an open-ended math quiz with 4 problems. The quiz directs students to show their work and explanations for calculating answers using a calculator. The problems include: 1) calculating the value of penalties in a computer game; 2) determining how many times 3 bus tours leave at the same time during a day; 3) figuring out how many t-shirts and calendars were sold based on funds raised; and 4) finding the dimensions of an original rectangle that was cut into 3 squares.

1. Name: ___________________ Date:_________
Open Ended Quiz
Directions: Complete each problem with a calculator. Be sure to
answer/show work and explain for all questions.
1) Ben is playing a computer game called “On Target.” Ben
starts Round Two of the game with 100 points. During
Round Two, Ben hits 5 targets worth 75 points each. Ben
also gets 4 penalties, all of which are worth an equal number
of points. Ben ends Round Two with –25 points.
a. What is the value of each penalty?

2. 2. A wildlife park has three different kinds of bus tours. Tour
A leaves every 25 minutes. Tour B leaves every 45 minutes.
Tour C leaves every 75 minutes. The first tour of the day for
all three tours leaves at 10:00 am. The last tour of the day
ends at 6:45 pm.
a. How many times during the day do all three tours leave
at the same time?
b. At what times does this happen?

3. 3. At Smoke Hill High School, students are raising money for a
local charity. Last year the students raised $696. This year
the students are selling T-shirts for $12 each and calendars
for $8 each. So far, the students have sold 40 items and
raised $384.
a. How many T-shirts and calendars have the students
sold?

4. 4. A rectangle with a perimeter of 64 inches was cut into three
squares.
a. What were the dimensions for the original rectangle?
b. What is the perimeter of one of the squares?
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c. What is the area of one of the squares? (A=s )