STAAR YEAR REVIEW

Michael is solving the numerical expression below.

5[2 + (9 X 5)] - 45

Which is the first step that Michael would take to solve this expression?

• 5 X 2

• 2 + 9

• 9 X 5

• 45 - 5

The first baseman for the Texas Rangers makes $625,000 every year. He has to pay to the government on the total amount of money he makes every year. This type of tax is called -

• income tax

• payroll tax

• sales tax

• property tax

Jane takes home $3,500 every month from her job. She uses $1,800 of that money to pay for her rent and her car payment, $300 for her credit card payment and $100 for her savings account. In order to make sure that she keeps her budget balanced for her month, what is the most amount of money that she can spend for the rest of the month?

• $1,100

• $1,300

• $800

• $1,200

Joanne's dad makes $54,000 every year. This is the amount of money he makes before taxes, insurance and other deductions are taken out of his paychecks. The amount of money he makes before these items are taken out is called his-

• gross income

• net income

• sales tax

• property tax

Terry made the dot plot above to chart the amount of time, in minutes, that it took students to eat breakfast in the morning. How many students took 5 or more minutes to eat their breakfast?

• 11

• 12

• 14

• 16

Ava, Maya, and Nora are playing a math game. Ava challenges her friends with this puzzle:
What is the value of this expression?
[ 36 + (3×2) ] ÷ 6

• 7

• 37

• 13

Imagine Ava and Abigail joined Samuel on a snack adventure! Each day for 11 days, they decided to spend $3.45 on delicious snacks to fuel their fun. Can you figure out how much money they spent together on these snacks?

• $379.50

• $14.45

• $37.95

• $6.90

Luna and Maya are on a treasure hunt and discover four mystical rocks. The table they create shows the masses of these rocks. Which number sentence correctly compares the masses of two of the rocks?

• 0.429>0.438

• 0.438<0.483

• 0.429>0.43

• 0.438=0.43

Imagine Avery and Olivia are building a magical box to store their adventure gear. The base of their rectangular prism-shaped box has a length of 15 inches and a width of 13 inches.
Can you help them figure out the area of this base in square inches so they can start their adventure?

• 195 square inches

• 56 square inches

• 28 square inches

• 185 square inches

Which of the following is not a parallelogram

• Trapezoid

• Rectangle

• Square

• Rhombus