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A painter will paint n walls with the same size and 2
shape in a building using a specific brand of paint. Which of the following is equal to a 3 , for all values
The painter’s fee can be calculated by the expression
of a ?
nKAh, where n is the number of walls, K is a
constant with units of dollars per square foot, A is 1
the length of each wall in feet, and h is the height of A) a3
each wall in feet. If the customer asks the painter to
use a more expensive brand of paint, which of the
B) a3
factors in the expression would change?
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A) h 3
C) a2
B) A
C) K
D) 3
a2
D) n
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The number of states that joined the United States
If 3r = 18, what is the value of 6r + 3 ? between 1776 and 1849 is twice the number of states
that joined between 1850 and 1900. If 30 states
A) 6 joined the United States between 1776 and 1849 and
B) 27 x states joined between 1850 and 1900, which of the
C) 36 following equations is true?
D) 39
A) 30x = 2
B) 2x = 30
x
C) = 30
2
D) x + 30 = 2
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5 15 x x f (x)
If = , what is the value of ?
x x + 20 5
0 3
A) 10 2 1
4 0
B) 5 5 –2
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2x − 3y = −14
3x − 2y = −6
If (x, y ) is a solution to the system of equations
above, what is the value of x − y ? 8
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kx − 3y = 4 k
4x − 5y = 7
In the system of equations above, k is a constant y°
and x and y are variables. For what value of k will x° z°
m
the system of equations have no solution? w° t°
u°
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A)
5
16 Note: Figure not drawn to scale.
B)
7
16 In the figure above, lines k, A , and m intersect at a
C) −
7 point. If x + y = u + w , which of the following must
be true?
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D) − I. x = z
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II. y = w
III. z = t
A) I and II only
B) I and III only
C) II and III only
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24x 2 + 25x − 47 53 C=
5
(F − 32)
The equation = −8x − 3 − is 9
ax − 2 ax − 2
2 The equation above shows how a temperature F,
true for all values of x ≠ , where a is a constant. measured in degrees Fahrenheit, relates to a
a
temperature C, measured in degrees Celsius. Based
What is the value of a ? on the equation, which of the following must be true?
I. A temperature increase of 1 degree
A) −16 Fahrenheit is equivalent to a temperature
B) −3 5
increase of degree Celsius.
C) 3 9
D) 16 II. A temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius
is equivalent to a temperature increase of
1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
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III. A temperature increase of degree
9
Fahrenheit is equivalent to a temperature
increase of 1 degree Celsius.
A) I only
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B) II only
What are the solutions to 3x 2 + 12x + 6 = 0 ? C) III only
D) I and II only
A) x = −2 ± 2
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B) x = −2 ±
3
C) x = −6 ± 2
D) x = −6 ± 6 2
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x 3(x 2 − 5) = − 4x
If x > 0 , what is one possible solution to the equation
above?
x°
y° z°
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7 4 1 5
If x − x = + , what is the value of x ?
9 9 4 12
Note: Figure not drawn to scale.
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At a lunch stand, each hamburger has 50 more
calories than each order of fries. If 2 hamburgers and In triangle ABC, the measure of ∠ B is 90° ,
3 orders of fries have a total of 1700 calories, how
many calories does a hamburger have? BC = 16 , and AC = 20 . Triangle DEF is similar to
value of sin F ?
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Marilyn’s Hike Age
2.0 Total
campsite (miles)
1.5
1.0 Male 12 2 14
0.5 Female 8 3 11
0 Total 20 5 25
12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
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The graph below shows the total number of music At Lincoln High School, approximately 7 percent of
album sales, in millions, each year from 1997 enrolled juniors and 5 percent of enrolled seniors
through 2009. were inducted into the National Honor Society last
year. If there were 562 juniors and 602 seniors
(millions of music albums)
Annual Music Album Sales enrolled at Lincoln High School last year, which of
1,000 the following is closest to the total number of juniors
800 and seniors at Lincoln High School last year who
600 were inducted into the National Honor Society?
Sales
400 A) 140
200 B) 69
0 C) 39
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
D) 30
Years since 1997
Based on the graph, which of the following best
describes the general trend in music album sales
from 1997 through 2009 ?
A) Sales generally increased each year since 1997.
B) Sales generally decreased each year since 1997.
C) Sales increased until 2000 and then generally 6
decreased.
D) Sales generally remained steady from 1997 3x 2 − 5x + 2
through 2009. 5x 2 − 2x − 6
Which of the following is the sum of the two
polynomials shown above?
A) 8x 2 − 7x − 4
B) 8x 2 + 7x − 4
C) 8x 4 − 7x 2 − 4
4
D) 8x 4 + 7x 2 − 4
n 1 2 3 4
f (n) –2 1 4 7
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3 4 Nate walks 25 meters in 13.7 seconds. If he walks at
If w = , what is the value of w ? this same rate, which of the following is closest to the
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distance he will walk in 4 minutes?
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A) A) 150 meters
20
B) 450 meters
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B) C) 700 meters
5
D) 1,400 meters
5
C)
4
20
D)
9
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The average number of students per classroom at
Central High School from 2000 to 2010 can be
modeled by the equation y = 0.56x + 27.2, where
x represents the number of years since 2000, and
y represents the average number of students per
classroom. Which of the following best describes the
meaning of the number 0.56 in the equation?
A) The total number of students at the school
in 2000
B) The average number of students per classroom
in 2000
C) The estimated increase in the average number of
students per classroom each year
D) The estimated difference between the average
number of students per classroom in 2010
and in 2000
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Questions 10 and 11 refer to the following
information. What is the weight, in newtons, of an object on
Mercury with a mass of 90 kilograms?
m A) 25
Planet Acceleration due to gravity
sec2 B) 86
C) 101
Mercury 3.6
D) 324
Venus 8.9
Earth 9.8
Mars 3.8
Jupiter 26.0
Saturn 11.1
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Uranus 10.7
An object on Earth has a weight of 150 newtons. On
Neptune 14.1 which planet would the same object have an
approximate weight of 170 newtons?
A) Venus
The chart above shows approximations of the B) Saturn
C) Uranus
acceleration due to gravity in meters per D) Neptune
⎛ m ⎞
second squared ⎜⎜ 2 ⎟⎟ for the eight planets in our solar
⎜⎝ sec ⎟⎠
▲
system. The weight of an object on a given planet can be
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If the function f has five distinct zeros, which of the The cost of using a telephone in a hotel meeting
following could represent the complete graph of f in room is $0.20 per minute. Which of the following
the xy‑plane? equations represents the total cost c, in dollars, for
h hours of phone use?
A) B)
y y
A) c = 0.20(60h)
x
x B) c = 0.20h + 60
60h
C) c =
0.20
C) D)
0.20h
y y D) c =
60
x x
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h = −16t 2 + vt + k
The equation above gives the height h, in feet, of a
ball t seconds after it is thrown straight up with an
initial speed of v feet per second from a height of
k feet. Which of the following gives v in terms of
h, t, and k ?
A) v = h + k − 16t
h − k + 16
B) v =
t
h+k
C) v = − 16t
t
h−k
D) v = + 16t
t
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In order to determine if treatment X is successful in y
improving eyesight, a research study was conducted.
From a large population of people with poor
eyesight, 300 participants were selected at random.
Half of the participants were randomly assigned to
receive treatment X, and the other half did not
receive treatment X. The resulting data showed that
participants who received treatment X had y = f (x)
significantly improved eyesight as compared to those 2
who did not receive treatment X. Based on the
design and results of the study, which of the x
1
following is an appropriate conclusion?
A) Treatment X is likely to improve the eyesight of
people who have poor eyesight. y = g(x)
B) Treatment X improves eyesight better than all
other available treatments.
C) Treatment X will improve the eyesight of anyone
who takes it.
D) Treatment X will cause a substantial
improvement in eyesight.
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Questions 17 and 18 refer to the following
information. At what price will the quantity of the product
supplied to the market equal the quantity of the
1 product demanded by the market?
S(P ) = P + 40
2 A) $90
D(P ) = 220 − P
B) $120
The quantity of a product supplied and the quantity of C) $133
the product demanded in an economic market are
D) $155
functions of the price of the product. The functions
above are the estimated supply and demand functions for
a certain product. The function S(P ) gives the quantity ▲
of the product supplied to the market when the price is
P dollars, and the function D(P ) gives the quantity of
the product demanded by the market when the price is
P dollars.
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How will the quantity of the product supplied to the
market change if the price of the product is increased 19
by $10 ?
A) The quantity supplied will decrease by 5 units. Graphene, which is used in the manufacture of
B) The quantity supplied will increase by 5 units. integrated circuits, is so thin that a sheet weighing
C) The quantity supplied will increase by 10 units.
D) The quantity supplied will increase by 50 units. one ounce can cover up to 7 football fields. If a
1
football field has an area of approximately 1 acres,
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about how many acres could 48 ounces of graphene
cover?
A) 250
B) 350
C) 450
D) 1,350
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Swimming Time versus Heart Rate Of the following four types of savings account plans,
160 which option would yield exponential growth of the
Heart rate (beats per minute)
C) 3 B) 513
D) 4 C) 214
D) 155
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5 ft
5 ft
a° b°
Note: Figures not drawn to scale. 10 ft
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In the xy-plane, the line determined by the In planning maintenance for a city’s infrastructure, a
points (2, k ) and (k, 32) passes through the origin. civil engineer estimates that, starting from the
present, the population of the city will decrease by
Which of the following could be the value of k ?
10 percent every 20 years. If the present population
A) 0 of the city is 50,000, which of the following
B) 4 expressions represents the engineer’s estimate of the
population of the city t years from now?
C) 8
D) 16
A) 50,000(0.1)20t
t
B) 50,000(0.1) 20
C) 50,000(0.9)20t
t
27 D) 50,000(0.9) 20
A rectangle was altered by increasing its length by
10 percent and decreasing its width by p percent. If
these alterations decreased the area of the rectangle
by 12 percent, what is the value of p ?
A) 12
B) 15
C) 20
D) 22
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Handedness 3x + b = 5x − 7
3y + c = 5y − 7
Gender Left Right
Female In the equations above, b and c are constants.
Male 1
If b is c minus , which of the following is true?
Total 18 122 2
1
A) x is y minus .
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The incomplete table above summarizes the number
of left-handed students and right-handed students by 1
gender for the eighth-grade students at B) x is y minus .
2
Keisel Middle School. There are 5 times as many
right-handed female students as there are left-handed C) x is y minus 1.
female students, and there are 9 times as many
right-handed male students as there are left-handed
male students. If there is a total of 18 left-handed 1
D) x is y plus .
students and 122 right-handed students in the 2
school, which of the following is closest to the
probability that a right-handed student selected at
random is female? (Note: Assume that none of the
eighth-grade students are both right-handed and
left-handed.)
A) 0.410
B) 0.357
C) 0.333
D) 0.250
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Tickets for a school talent show cost $2 for students (−3x 2 + 5x − 2) − 2(x 2 − 2x − 1)
and $3 for adults. If Chris spends at least $11 but no
more than $14 on x student tickets and 1 adult If the expression above is rewritten in the form
ticket, what is one possible value of x ?
ax 2 + bx + c , where a, b, and c are constants, what is
the value of b ?
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Ages of the First 12 United States Presidents 34
at the Beginning of Their Terms in Office
Age Age In a circle with center O, central angle AOB has a
President President
(years) (years) 5π
measure of radians. The area of the sector
Washington 57 Jackson 62 4
Adams 62 Van Buren 55 formed by central angle AOB is what fraction of the
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An online store receives customer satisfaction ratings y ≤ −15x + 3000
between 0 and 100, inclusive. In the first 10 ratings y ≤ 5x
the store received, the average (arithmetic mean) of
the ratings was 75. What is the least value the store In the xy‑plane, if a point with coordinates (a, b) lies
can receive for the 11th rating and still be able to in the solution set of the system of inequalities above,
have an average of at least 85 for the first 20 ratings? what is the maximum possible value of b ?
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Questions 37 and 38 refer to the following The owner of the Good Deals Store opens a new
information. store across town. For the new store, the owner
estimates that, during business hours, an average of
If shoppers enter a store at an average rate of r shoppers 90 shoppers per hour enter the store and each of
per minute and each stays in the store for an average time them stays an average of 12 minutes. The average
of T minutes, the average number of shoppers in the number of shoppers in the new store at any time is
store, N, at any one time is given by the formula N = rT . what percent less than the average number of
This relationship is known as Little’s law. shoppers in the original store at any time? (Note:
Ignore the percent symbol when entering your
The owner of the Good Deals Store estimates that during answer. For example, if the answer is 42.1%, enter
business hours, an average of 3 shoppers per minute 42.1)
enter the store and that each of them stays an average of
15 minutes. The store owner uses Little’s law to estimate
that there are 45 shoppers in the store at any time.
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Little’s law can be applied to any part of the store,
such as a particular department or the checkout lines.
The store owner determines that, during business
hours, approximately 84 shoppers per hour make a
purchase and each of these shoppers spends an
average of 5 minutes in the checkout line. At
any time during business hours, about how many
shoppers, on average, are waiting in the checkout
line to make a purchase at the Good Deals Store?
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