Los Angeles High School Math Exam
> 1. Johnny has an AK47 with a 40 round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10
> shots and shoots 15 times each drive by, how many drive by shootings
> must he conduct before he shoots 50 people?
> 2. Paul has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells 10 grams to Jackson for
> $820, and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value
> of the
balance of the cocaine if he doesn?t cut it?
> 3. Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy and $100 for a
> 4x4. If he has stolen two BMWs and three 4x4s, how many Chevys will
> he have to steal to make $800?
> 4. If the contents of an average can of spray paint covers 22 square
> feet and the average letter is eight square feet, how many letters can
> a teenager spray with eight cans of paint?
> 5. Hector got six girls in his gang pregnant. There are 27 girls in
> the gang. What percentage of girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?
> 6. Kathy gets $125 for sneaking an illegal alien across the border
> from Mexico. She sneaked three illegals over the border every night
> for six days but then one of them ripped her off for $500. How much
> money does she have left?
> 7. Byron can trade $150 worth of food stamps for two tickets to a
> Lakers
> regular season game. If a play-off game costs 20 percent more, how
> many
> play-off tickets can he get for $500 in food stamps?
>
> Answers to City of Los Angeles High
> School Math Proficiency Exam
>
> 1. Johnny has an AK47 with a 40 round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10
> shots and shoots 15 times each drive by, how many drive by shootings
> must he conduct before he shoots 50 people?
> Johnny hits 15*(4/10) people per drive by, which means that he will
> have to participate in 9 drive bys to shoot 50 people. However, he
> will have completed two drive-by shootings and be just starting the
> third when he has to reload. Since he only stole a single clip, he?ll
> only have shot 16 people when the homeboys with the UZIs? make Swiss
> cheese out of him.
> 2. Pony has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8 ball to Jackson for
> $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value
> of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn?t cut it?
> At 454 grams per pound, 2oz of the rock = 56.75 grams. An ?8 ball? is
> 8 grams, so pony has sold 10 grams total and has 46.75 grams left. If
> he keeps selling 8-balls, he can sell 5 more (for a total of
> 5*$320=$1,600) and have 6.75 grams for his own nose. If he sells 2
> gram packs, he can sell (46/2-23) packs at $85 apiece =
> (23*$85)=$1,955. However, he could divide it into small parts, bake it
> up into crack and sell the rocks for an even larger profit. This
> problem is really more suited for the Gang Multi-Variable Economics
> Test.
> 3. Ron is pimping for 3 girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how
> many tricks will each have to turn so Ron can pay for his $800 per day
> crack habit.
> 800/$64=12 tricks plus a dance. Also, Ron should consider making a
> deal with Pony from Question #2.
> 4. Susan wants to cut her « pound of heroin to make 20% more profit.
> How many ounces of cut will she need?
> If she sells the cut heroin at the same price per unit volume, she
> will need 20% more volume. 20% of « pound (=8oz) is 1.6oz. So, Susan
> will need 1.6oz of cut to add to the 8 oz of heroin to get 20% more
> volume. She will want a cut which looks similar to raw heroin and has
> approximately the same melting point. Plain sugar or laundry detergent
> are suggested. Laundry detergent has the added benefit of removing the
> possibility of customer complaints, but will sharply limit repeat
> business.
> 5. Blade gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a
> 4x4. If he has already stolen 2BMW?s and 3 4x4?s, how many Chevy?s
> will he have to steal to make $800?
> Blade has made 2*$200 + 3*$100=$700 dollars from his theft so far. He
> needs $100 more, so he needs to steal $100/$50=2 more Chevy?s.
> However, he will probably want to steal 4 Chevy?s so he can take the
> extra two and make a really def low-rider.
> 6. Little Willy is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $25,000
> for the hit. If his common law wife is spending $250 per month, how
> much money will be left when he gets out of prison and how many years
> will he get for killing the bitch that spent his money?
> 6 years*12 months/year*$250/month=$18,000. Little Willy will have
> $25,000 - $18,000 = $7,000 left when he gets out of prison. If Little
> Willy kills her in the USA, he should expect to get 6 years. However,
> if he takes her down to Mexico and buries her scrawny, track-marked
> butt in the desert, he can get off scott free.
> 7. If the average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet, and the
> average letter is 4 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray
> with 3 cans of paint?
> 3 cans of paint will cover 3*22=66 square feet. 66/4=16 letters with a
> little paint left over to spray in the eyes of the cop who?s comin?
> after you. Or the tagger could do 15 letters and a bitchin? skull.
> 8. Hector knocked up 6 girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the
> gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?
> 6/27=22% of the girls. However, 2 of them are lying because they?ve
> been sleeping with Pedro, Hector?s lieutenant. So, in actuality,
> Hector only knocked up 4/27 or 14.8%.
> 9. Rosie?s sole source of income is shoplifting. If she gets 10 cents
> on the dollar from her fence, how much merchandise must she shoplift
> each week to make $250.
> Solve X/10=250 for X, X=$2,500.
> 10. Mike carjacked a Chevy Camaro for his date Saturday night with his
> young 14 year old girlfriend. He was arrested that night while making
> his girlfriend in the backseat. How much prison time is he looking for
> for the carjacking and for statutory rape, even though the girl looked
> legal? Assume no prior convictions in arriving at your answer.
> Mike is only 12 so he will serve no time and will be making his
> girlfriend in the lot in someone else?s car next Saturday. |
