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TEST 1 QUESTIONS
SECTION 2

1. If 2x + 6 = 4x − 1, what is the value of x? 5. The amount of pancake mix required to make pan-
A. 2.5 cakes is proportional to the number of pancakes that
B. 3 are being made. The table below shows the required
C. 3.5 amount of pancake mix and water to make 6 pan-
D. 4 cakes. How many cups of water are needed to make
E. 4.5 15 pancakes?

2. What is the next term in the sequence: 4,9,6,11,8, Pancakes Amount of Amount of
13, . . . ? Mix Water
A. 18
B. 16 3
6 1 cup cup
C. 10 4
D. 9
E. 8
1
A. 1
3. A bicycle company makes five styles of bikes in 4
seven different colors. How many different bicycles 3
B. 1
can the company make when considering both style 8
and color? 5
C. 1
A. 35 8
B. 12 1
D. 1
C. 7 2
D. 5 7
E. 2 E. 1
8
____ ____
4. Which of the following statements is NOT true for 6. In the diagram below AB ≅ BC . Which of the follow-
the function f(x) = 2(x − 3) 2? ing statements must be true?
A. The domain is all real numbers.
B. The range is all real numbers greater than or
equal to zero. A B C
C. The graph of the function touches the x-axis 1
when x = −3. III. AB = AC.
2 ____
D. The graph of the function never goes below the
x-axis. III. B is the midpoint of AC.
E. f(2) = f(4). 1
III. AB = BC.
2
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. II and III
E. I and II

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7. A company has two manufacturing plants, Plant A 10. For which points on the number line below is the
and Plant B. Three times Plant A’s production is equal statement x 3 > x 2 true?
to one half of the total produced by the company. If T
represents the total produced by the company, which
–1 0 1
of the following is equal to the amount produced by
Plant B? I. x < −1
5 II. −1 < x < 1
A. T
6 III. x > 1
2 A. I
B. T
3 B. II
1 C. III
C. T
2 D. I and III
1 E. I, II, and III
D. T
3
1 11. The area of the base of Cylinder A is 4 times the area
E. T of the base of Cylinder B. What is the radius of Cylin-
6
der A (rA ) in terms of the radius of Cylinder B (rB)?
8. There are a total of s seats in a movie theater. During A. rA = rB.
a certain week there were a total of v viewings at the B. rA = 4rB.
theater with an average of t unsold tickets for each C. rA = 2rB.
r
viewing. Which of the following equations repre- D. rA = B .
sents the total number of tickets that were not sold 4
rB
during that week? E. rA = .
2
A. t
B. v
12. A jar contains blue, red, and green marbles. The ratio
t
C. of blue:red:green = 3:5:4. What is the probability that
v a marble chosen at random is NOT red?
D. tv
v 1
E. A.
t 4
5
B.
9. In the figure below, a 储 b. What is the value of z? 12
3
C.
4
7
a D.
120° 12
2
E.
x° 4
b
z°
13. Jim is a car salesman who gets a base monthly salary
and a commission for each car he sells. Jim’s monthly
earnings are given by the function f (x) = c(4 + x),
A. 120 where x represents the number of cars he sold for the
B. 60 month. If Jim sells 6 cars in a month he earns $2,000.
C. 40 How much is Jim’s base salary?
D. 30 A. $500
E. 20 B. $600
C. $700
D. $800
E. $900

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14. Which of the following statements must be true 18. If c is equal to the sum of a and twice b, which of
about the x and y coordinates that satisfy the equation the following is the average (arithmetic mean) of a
ay + ax = 0, a ≠ 0, x ≠ 0, y ≠ 0? and c?
A. x > y A. c
B. x = y B. a + b
C. x = −y C. a
D. x < y D. b
1 E. a + c
E. x =
y
19. The rectangle in the figure below is inscribed in a
15. What is the area of the triangle below? circle with a radius 5 5 . If the height of the rectan-
gle is twice its base, what is the area of the rectangle?

10

60°
10

A. 25 3
B. 50 3
C. 100 3
D. 25
E. 50
A. 500
16. If x2 + 2xy + y2 = 81, x + y = B. 400
C. 300
A. 7
D. 200
B. 8
E. 100
C. 9
D. 10
20. When 17 is divided by k, where k is a positive inte-
E. 11
ger less than 17, the remainder is 3. What is the re-
mainder when the sum of the possible values of k is
17. In the xy-plane, line q and line r are parallel. Line q
divided by 17?
passes through the point (3,7), and line r passes
through the point (3,2). If the y-intercept for line r is A. 2
−2, what is the equation of a line perpendicular to B. 3
line q, which intersects line q on the y-axis? C. 4
D. 5
4
A. y = x + 3. E. 6
3
3
B. y = − x + 3.
4
4
C. y = − x + 11.
3
4
D. y = x + 11.
3
3
E. y = − x + 11.
4

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SECTION 5

1. If x + y = 4, then 2(x + y) =
A. 2
Freshmen
B. 4
C. 6 Sophomores
D. 8 Juniors
E. 10 Seniors

2. In the rectangular prism below EF = 8 and FG = 6. B.

What is the value of EG?

B C Freshmen
Sophomores
A Juniors
D
Seniors

C.
H G
Freshmen
E F Sophomores
Juniors
A. 10 Seniors
B. 12
C. 14 D.
D. 16
E. 18
Freshmen
3. The table below shows the number of students in a Sophomores
high school who play varsity sports. Which of the Juniors
following circle graphs displays the information Seniors
shown in the table?
E.
Grade Frequency
4. In a hardware store the ratio of shovels to rakes is 3:5.
Freshmen 10 If there are 10 more rakes than shovels, how many
Sophomores 20 rakes are there in the hardware store?
Juniors 40 A. 10
Seniors 80 B. 15
C. 20
D. 25
E. 30

Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors

A.

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5. In
____the rectangle ABCD below, M is the midpoint of 8. The function graphed below is a cubic function.
CD . If the length of rectangle ABDC is 3 times the f (a) = −f (2). Which of the following could be the
width, and__the
__ area of triangle AMB is 18, what is the value of a?
length of CM ?
y
A B

–6 –4 –2 0 2 4 6
x

D C
M
–5

A. 2 3
B. 3 3
C. 4 3 A. −2
D. 6 3 1
B. −
2
E. 12 3
C. 0
1
4 a2 D.
6. = 36b 4 , a −1 = 2
b2 E. 2
A. 3b3
B. 9b3 9. Three couples host a dinner party. Each couple invites
1 4 guests, none of whom are the same. The tables for
C. the party seat 5 people. If everyone attends the party,
3b 3
1 what is the minimum number of tables needed to seat
D. everyone?
9b 3
1
E.
b3 10. ⎟ 2x − 3⎟ ≤ 7 and⎟ x − 2⎟ ≤ 4. If x is an integer, what
value of x is a solution for one inequality but not the
7. Two airplanes at 25,000 feet above the ground are fly- other?
ing toward the same airport. Airplane A is flying due
south toward the airport at 200 miles per hour, and
Airplane B is flying due west toward the airport at 250
miles per hour. At 10:00 AM Airplane A is 700 miles
from the airport, and Airplane B is 925 miles from the
airport. How far are the two airplanes from each other
at 10:30 AM?
A. 1,000 miles
B. 1,160 miles
C. 1,400 miles
D. 1,625 miles
E. 1,800 miles

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11. x = 15. A jar contains green, red, and blue marbles. The
1
probability of choosing a blue marble is , the proba-
3
1
bility of choosing a red marble is , the probability
2
1
30° of choosing a green marble is . If there are 12 mar-
6
x° bles in the jar, and then three green marbles are
added, what is the new probability of choosing a red
marble from the jar?

16. Increasing x by 19% is equal to decreasing y by 15%.

y
=
x
12. The sum of 10 consecutive integers is 105. What is 17. The volume of a cylinder is 32π. The height of the
the median of these 10 integers? cylinder is equal to the square root of the radius.
What is the radius of the cylinder?

13. f(x) = 2x + 3, f(c + 2) = 15, f(c) = 18. The distance between two points (3,x) and (13,−12)
is 26. What is the value of x?
____ ____
14. In triangle ABC, shown below, AB ≅ BC . What is the
value of x?

x°

130° 145°
A
B

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SECTION 8

1. Which of the following is the element of the set con- 5. The bar graph below shows the price of houses in
taining all the even numbers and the set containing two different years. Which house price increases by
all the prime numbers? the greatest percent?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3 House Price
D. 4 500
E. 5 450
400
2. x − 5 + 6 = 11, x = 350
300

Price
A. 5
250
B. 10 200
C. 20 150
D. 25 100
E. 30 50
0
A B C D E
3. The table below shows the number of men and women
polled and the percent who were in favor of a certain House
law. How many were not in favor of the law? 1995 Appraisal Price
2000 Appraisal Price
Number Percent in
Polled Favor

Men 250 24% A. A

Women 350 22% B. B
C. C
D. D
A. 83 E. E
B. 137
C. 190
D. 273
E. 463

4. x + y =

80°

40°

x°
y°

A. 20
B. 40
C. 80
D. 120
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6. Part of the graph of the function f(x) is below. If f(x) = 10. Cylinder A has a volume of 256π and a height of 4.
f(−x), f(1.5) = Cylinder B has the same volume as Cylinder A and
a height equal to the radius of Cylinder A. What is
the radius of Cylinder B?
A. 8
B. 8 2
C. 4
D. 4 2
E. 2

⎛ k⎞
11. k = ⎜ − k , ⎟ where k is an integer. What is the
⎝ 2⎠

equation of the line passing through k ?

A. y = 2x + 2.
B. y = 2x.
A. 1 C. y = −2x.
B. 1.5 1
D. y = x − 2.
C. 2 2
D. 2.5 1
E. 3 E. y = − x.
2

7. 9a
3c = 177,147, 2a + c = 12. Population of Town A is 75% of the population of

A. 11 Town B. Population of Town C is 20% of the popu-
B. 10 lation of Town B. The population of Town A is what
C. 9 percent of the population of Town C?
D. 8 A. 375%
E. 7 B. 300%
C. 175%
8. The center of a circle is (2,1) and the point (−3,13) is D. 100%
on the circle. What is the area of the circle? E. 75%
A. 25π
B. 144π 13. x, y, and z are positive integers. Which of the fol-
C. 169π lowing lists all the possible ways for x + y + z to be
D. 196π an odd number?
E. 225π I. One of the numbers is odd.
II. Two of the numbers are odd.
9. Which of the following inequalities create the graph III. Three of the numbers are odd.
below? A. I
A.⎟ x − 8⎟ < 4. B. I and II
B. ⎟ −x − 3⎟ < 8. C. I and III
C. ⎟ x − 4⎟ < 8. D. II and III
D.⎟ −x − 4⎟ > 8. E. I, II, and III
E. ⎟ x − 8⎟ > 4.

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14. −1 < x < 0. Which of the following choices includes 16. What is the area of the figure shown below if the
all the true statements from the list below? length of each side of the four congruent regular
I. x3 > x. hexagons is 10?
II. x > x2.
III. x3 > x2.
A. I only
B. III only
C. II and III
D. I and III
E. I, II, and III

15. The scatterplot below shows the number of hours

students spent studying for a history test and the
grade the students received. Which of the following
is the equation of the best fitting line to the scatter
plot below?

A. 25 3
Scatterplot of Grade on
Test vs Study Hours B. 150 3
100 C. 175 3
95
D. 700 3
90 90
90 88 E. 900 3
Grade on Test

85 86
88
80 80 85
80
75
77
70
70

60
60
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Study Hours

A. y = 68x + 24
B. y = −24x + 68
C. y = 24x + 68
D. y = 24x + 24
E. y = −24x + 24