1. Last year's town budget was $ 40,442,833. This year, you're told, the budget will be 1.9 % larger. What will this year's budget be, to the nearest dollar?
2. About 4 out of every 9 residents of your city speak Spanish. About what percent of the population speaks Spanish, rounded to the nearest whole percent?
3. Your city of 242,633 residents had a total of 12 murders last year. What was the murder rate per 100,000, rounded to the nearest whole number?
4. An oil tanker hit a rock offshore from your city and spilled about 422,972 gallons of crude oil. You want to make that volume relevant to your readers by saying how many backyard swimming pools (which hold about 12,000 gallons) it would take to hold that much oil. About how many swimming pools would the spilled oil fill?
5. You're given a poll with 1,737 respondents. What is the sampling error margin, to one decimal place, expressed as a percentage?
6. The salaries of your city's department heads are $70,393 ; $91,606; $149,099; $102,253; $101,043; and $ 136,830 . What is the average salary to the nearest dollar?
7. The salaries of your city's department heads are $68,302; $61,542; $108,102; $95,177; $53,300; $65,047 and $53,748. What is the median salary?
8. In a loose crowd, each person takes up about 10 square feet. What is the best estimate, rounded to the nearest thousand, of how many people gathered today in a loose crowd for a protest demonstration that filled a plaza that measures 93 yards by 140 yards? (Pay attention!) Round up your answer
9. Last year's Library budget in your town was $ 10,221,324. This year the budget will be $ 10,918,760. What was the percentage change, rounded to one decimal place?
10. Last year's Public Safety budget in your town was $ 8,623,803. This year the budget will be $ 8,006,376. How many dollars did the budget change?
11. In 2000 the CPI was 172.3; today it is 223.82. If a reporter's starting salary in 2000 was $31,508 then what starting salary today would be enough to have kept up with inflation? Round up your answer.
12. The star of your WNBA team this season made 743 of the 1,208 shots she put up. What was her field goal percentage, to one decimal place?