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Converting Equations - Mixed Practice

1 5

What is 10% of 470? 3 more than 8 times a number x is equal to 83. Which
equation represents this situation?
A) 37
A) (3)(8)x = 83
B) 47
B) 8x = 83 + 3
C) 423
C) 3x + 8 = 83
D) 460
D) 8x + 3 = 83

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There are 55 students in Spanish club. A sample of the From a population of 50,000 people, 1,000 were chosen at
Spanish club students was selected at random and asked random and surveyed about a proposed piece of legislation.
whether they intend to enroll in a new study program. Of Based on the survey, it is estimated that 35% of the people in
those surveyed, 20% responded that they intend to enroll in the population support the legislation, with an associated
the study program. Based on the survey, which of the margin of error of 3%. Based on these results, which of the
following is the best estimate of the total number of Spanish following is a plausible value for the total number of people
club students who intend to enroll in the study program? in the population who support the proposed legislation?

A) 11 A) 350

B) 20 B) 650

C) 44 C) 16,750

D) 55 D) 31,750

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3
A business owner plans to purchase the same model of chair
Isabel grows potatoes in her garden. This year, she harvested
for each of the 81 employees. The total budget to spend on
760 potatoes and saved 10% of them to plant next year. How
these chairs is $14,000, which includes a 7% sales tax.
many of the harvested potatoes did Isabel save to plant next
Which of the following is closest to the maximum possible
year?
price per chair, before sales tax, the business owner could
pay based on this budget?
A) 66
A) $148.15
B) 76
B) $161.53
C) 84
C) $172.84
D) 86
D) $184.94

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8
Of 900,000 beads, 828,000 are silver. What percentage of
Out of 300 seeds that were planted, 80% sprouted. How
the beads are silver?
many of these seeds sprouted?
A) 8%

B) 36%

C) 72%

D) 92%
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A proposal for a new library was included on an election 210 is p% greater than 30. What is the value of p?
ballot. A radio show stated that 3 times as many people
voted in favor of the proposal as people who voted against it.
A social media post reported that 15,000 more people voted
in favor of the proposal than voted against it. Based on these
data, how many people voted against the proposal?

A) 7,500

B) 15,000

C) 22,500

D) 45,000

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The population of City A increased by 7% from 2015 to

2016. If the 2016 population is k times the 2015 population,
what is the value of k?

A) 0.07

B) 0.7

C) 1.07

D) 1.7

11

The product of two positive integers is 546. If the first

integer is 11 greater than twice the second integer, what is the
smaller of the two integers?

A) 7

B) 14

C) 39

D) 78

12

The minimum value of x is 12 less than 6 times another

number n. Which inequality shows the possible values of x?

A) ! ≤ 6$ − 12

B) ! ≥ 6$ − 12

C) ! ≤ 12 − 6$

D) ! ≥ 12 − 6$
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Rates/Ratios/Conversions - Mixed Practice

1 5

Tilly earns p dollars for every w hours of work. Which A go-kart travels 23 miles per hour. Convert this speed into
expression represents the amount of money, in dollars, Tilly feet per second.
earns for 39w hours of work?
A) 0.06
A) 588
B) 24.5
B) 726
C) 33.7
C) 897
D) 2024
D) 1,107

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A fish swam a distance of 5,104 yards. How far did the fish An adult male contains 12 pints of blood. How many liters
swim, in miles? (1 mile = 1,760 yards) of blood are there in a typical adult male? (1 liter = 2.1 pints)

A) 0.3 A) 3.1

B) 2.9 B) 5.7

C) 3,344 C) 14.1

D) 6,864 D) 24.2

For a training program, Juan rides his bike at an average rate 7

of 5.7 minutes per mile. Which function m models the
number of minutes it will take Juan to ride x miles at this A machine at a horseradish plant produces 7 bottles of
rate? horseradish every 20 seconds. At this rate, how many bottles
of horseradish will the machine produce in 2 hours?
'
A) )(!) =
&.)
A) 14
B) )(!) = ! + 5.7
B) 140
C) )(!) = ! − 5.7
C) 2520
D) )(!) = 5.7!
D) 8400

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8
An object travels at a constant speed of 12 centimeters per
second. At this speed, what is the time, in seconds, that it
A candle is made of 17 ounces of wax. When the candle is
would take for the object to travel 108 centimeters.
burning, the amount of wax in the candle decreases by 1
ounce every 4 hours. If 6 ounces of wax remain in this
A) 9
candle, for how many hours has it been burning?
B) 96
A) 3
C) 120
B) 6
D) 972
C) 24

D) 44
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The density of a certain type of wood is 353 kilograms per One gallon of paint will cover 220 square feet of a surface.
cubic meter. A sample of this type of wood is in the shape of A room has a total wall area of w square feet. Which
a cube and has a mass of 345 kilograms. To the nearest equation represents the total amount of paint P, in gallons,
hundredth of a meter, what is the length of one edge of this needed to paint the walls of the room twice?
sample?
*
A) 1 =
!!+
A) 0.98
B) 2 = 4405
B) 0.99
*
C) 2 =
C) 1.01 ##+

D) 1.02 D) 2 = 2205

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A certain park as an area of 11,863,808 square yards. What

is the area, in square miles, of this park? (1 mile = 1,760
yards)

A) 1.96

B) 3.83

C) 3,444,39

D) 6,740.8
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Probability - Mixed Practice

1 3

For a particular machine that produces beads, 29 out of every The table summarizes the distribution of preferred fruits by
100 beads it produces have a defect. A bead produced by the grade level for 9th and 10th grade students.
machine will be selected at random. What is the probability
of selecting a bead that has a defect? Preferred Fruit
Grade Apple Orange Banana Total
!
A) 9th Grade 19 12 23 54
#,%++
10th Grade 22 9 15 46
! Total 41 21 38 100
B)
#%

#%
If one 9th grader was chosen at random, what is the
C) probability that they would prefer either apples or oranges?
!++
(Express your answer as a decimal or fraction, not a percent.)
#%
D)
!+

The table summarizes the distribution of color and shape for

100 tiles of equal area.
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Red Blue Yellow Total
Square 10 20 25 55 The table above shows the results from High School juniors
Pentagon 20 10 15 45 on their SAT exam.
Total 30 30 40 100
Decreased No Increased Total
If one of these tiles is selected at random, what is the Change
probability of selecting a red tile? (Express your answer as a Took 5 2 13 20
decimal or fraction, not a percent.) Class
Didn’t 8 15 3 26
Take
Class
Total 13 17 16 46

If one of the students whose score went up was chosen at

random, what is the probability that they took the SAT Prep
class?

A) .13

B) .28

C) .65

D) .81
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Mean, Median, Range, and Standard Deviation - Mixed Practice

1 5

Each value in the data set shown represents the height, in Value Data set A frequency Data set B frequency
centimeters, of a plant. 30 2 9
34 4 7
6, 10, 13, 2, 15, 22, 10, 4, 4, 4 38 5 5
42 7 4
What is the mean height, in centimeters, of these plants? 46 9 2

Data set A and data set B each consist of 27 values. The

table shows the frequencies of the values for each data set.
Which of the following statements best compares the means
of the two data sets?

A) The mean of data set A is greater than the mean of data

2 set B.
B) The mean of data set A is less than the mean of data set
73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 84, 85, 91 B.
C) The mean of data set A is equal to the mean of data set
What is the median of the data shown? B.
D) There is not enough information to compare the means of
the data sets.

3 A list of 10 data values is shown.

Data set X: 5, 9, 9, 13 6, 8, 16, 4, 17, 26, 8, 5, 5, 5
Data set Y: 5, 9, 9, 13, 27
What is the mean of this data?
The lists give the values on data sets X and Y. Which
statement correctly compares the mean of data set X and the
mean of data set Y?

A) The mean of data set X is greater than the mean of data

set Y.
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B) The mean of data set X is less than the mean of data set
Y.

C) The means of data set X and data set Y are equal.

D) There is not enough information to compare the means.

Each of the dot plots shown represents the number of glue

sticks brought in by each student for two classes, class A and
class B. Which statement best compares the standard
deviations of the numbers of glue sticks brought in by each
4 student for these two classes?

Data set A consists of the heights of 75 buildings and has a A) The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks
mean of 32 meters. Data set B consists of the heights of 50 brought in by each student for class A is less than the
buildings and has a mean of 62 meters. Data set C consists standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought
of the heights of the 125 buildings from data sets A and B. in by each student for class B.
What is the mean, in meters, of data set C? B) The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks
brought in by each student for class A is equal to the
standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought
in by each student for class B.
C) The standard deviation of the number of glue sticks
brought in by each student for class A is greater than the
standard deviation of the number of glue sticks brought
in by each student for class B.
D) There is not enough information to compare these
standard deviations.
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Data set A consists of 10 positive integers less than 60. The

list shown gives 9 of the integers from data set A.

43, 45, 44, 43, 38, 39, 40, 46, 40

The mean of these 9 integers is 42. If the mean of data set A

is an integer that is greater than 42, what is the value of the
largest integer from data set A?

Two data sets of 23 integers each are summarized in the

histograms shown. For each of the histograms, the first
interval represents the frequency of integers greater than or
equal to 10, but less than 20. The second interval represents
the frequency of integers greater than or equal to 20, but less
than 30, and so on. What is the smallest possible difference
between the mean of data set A and the mean of data set B?
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A) 0
The dot plots represent the distributions of values in data sets
A and B. B) 1

C) 10

D) 23

Which of the following statements must be true?

I. The median of data set A is equal to the median of
data set B.
II. The standard deviation of data set A is equal to the
standard deviation of data set B.

A) I only

B) II only

C) I and II

D) Neither I nor II
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Mixed Practice Answers – Arithmetic

Converting Equations
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. 240
9. A
10. C
11. B
12. B
13. 600

Rates/Ratios/Conversions
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. D
9. B
10. B
11. A

Probability
1. C
2. .3
%'
3. .57 or (+
4. d

Mean, Median, Range, & Standard Deviation

1. 9
2. 79
3. B
4. 44
5. A
6. 10
7. B
8. 52
9. A
10. B