Module 1

4.
1.
Kenzie burns 3 calories per minute lifting
(x – 7)4 = 0
weights and 15 calories per minute
What value of x makes the equation above swimming. Which of the following equations
true? represents the total number of calories, T,
Kenzie has burned after lifting weights for 30
minutes and swimming for m minutes?
A) 7
A) T = 45m + 30
B) 10
C) 0 B) T = 15m + 90
D) 4
C) T = 3m + 450
D) T = 18m + 30
2.

√9𝑥 = x – 4 5.
What are all values of x that satisfy the Cupcake and Topping Selection
equation above?
Flavor
I. 1 Vanilla Chocolate
II. 16 Sprinkles 5 7
Topping
Cookie 8 12
A) I only Crumbs
B) II only
C) I and II The table above shows the flavors of cupcake
D) Neither I nor II and the toppings chosen by the people at a
party. Each person chose one flavor of
cupcake and one topping. Of the people who
3. chose a vanilla cupcake, what fraction chose
sprinkles as a topping?
What is 0.4% of 1000?
5
A)
32
A) 400 5
B) 4 B)
13
C) 4000 13
D) 1000 C) 32
8
D)
13
6. 9.
A geologist estimates that a certain river is B
widening at a rate of 3.5 inches per year.
E
According to the geologist’s estimate, how
long will it take, in years, for the river to 15 17
widen by 42 inches?

C 8 A F 1 D
Note: Figure not drawn to scale
Triangles ABC and DEF above are similar.
How much longer than segment EF is
segment DE?
1
7. A)
8
f(x) = x + 2x – 2x + 1
3 2
1
B)
4
For the function f defined above, what is the
value of f (-2)? C) 1

A) -11 D) 2

B) -5
C) -3
D) 5 10.
x + 5y = 16
y = 3x

8. If the ordered pair (x, y) satisfies the system

of equations above, what is the value of x ?
The score on a history test is obtained by
subtracting the number of incorrect answers
from 4 times the number of correct answers.
If a student answered all 25 questions and
obtained a score of 65, how many questions
did the student answer correctly?
A) 18
B) 20
C) 5
D) 13
 11. 13.
What are the slope and y-intercept of the In the system of equations below, a and c are
graph in the xy-plane of the equation constants.
2x – 5y – 7 = 0 ?
2
A) The slope is − 5 , and the y-intercept is
7 If the system of equations has an infinite
(0, − 5 ).
number of solutions (x,y). What is the value
2 of a ?
B) The slope is − 5 , and the y-intercept is
7 5
(0, ). A) -
3
5
2 1
C) The slope is 5 , and the y-intercept is B) -
3
7 1
(0, − 5 ). C)
3
2 5
D) The slope is 5
, and the y-intercept is D)
3
7
(0, ).
5

12.

14.
x2 + 2x – 15 = 0
If a is a solution of the equation above and
The graph of the function f is shown in the xy
plane above, where y=f(x). Which of the a > 0 , what is the value of a ?
following functions could define f ?
A) f(x) = (x+3)(x+1)(x-1)2
B) f(x) = (x+3)2(x+1)2(x-1)
C) f(x) = (x-3)(x-1)(x+1)2
D) f(x) = (x-3)2(x-1)2(x+1)
 15. 18.
In planning budgets for a town’s council, an
accountant estimates that, starting from the
present, the population of the town will
decrease by 5 percent every 10 years. If the
present population of the town is 11,319,
which of the following expressions
represents the accountant’s estimate of the
population of the city t years from now?
A) 11,310(0.05)10t
B) 11,310(0.05)t/10
C) 11,310(0.95)10t A line is shown in the xy-plane above. A
D) 11,310(0.95) t/10 second line (not shown) is parallel to the line
shown and passes through the points (0, 3)
and (4, c), where c is a constant. What is the
value of c ?

16. A) 4
15
In the xy-plane, what is the y-coordinate of B)
3
the y-intercept of the graph pf the equation
17
5𝑥+20 C)
y= ? 3
𝑥−4
D) 1
A) -5
19.
B) -4
A right circular cone has a volume of 54π
C) -1
cubic inches. If the height of the cones is 2
D) 4 inches, what is the radius, in inches, of the
base of the cone?
A) 27
17.
B) 9
ax – 5(4 – 3x) = -20
C) 81
In the equation above, a is a constant. For
what value of a does the equation have D) 54
infinitely many solutions?
 20. 22.
Last year, Gus’s bees produced 88 gallons of
honey. This year, Gus increased the number
x2 + 40x + y2 + 18y = -40
of bees by 50%. If his bees produce honey
this year at the same rate per bee as last year, The equation above defines a circle in the xy-
how many gallons of honey can Gus expect plane. What are the coordinates of the center
to produce this year? of the circle?
A) (-40, -18)
B) (-20, -9)
C) (20, 9)
D) (40, 18)
21.

Based on the graph above, in how many of

the matches played did the volleyball team
get service aces equal to the median number
of service aces for the 17 matches?
 Module 2
4.
1.
(3x + a)(2bx2 – 2x – 1) = -24x3 – 22x2 – 7x-2
The equation above is true for all x, where a
and b are constants. What is the value of 2ab
?
A) -44
B) -24
The angles shown above are acute and C) -22
cos(a) = sin(b). If a = 5k + 15 and
b = 4k – 24, what is the value of k? D) -16
A) 5 5.

B) 5.5 Of the following four types of account

withdrawal plans, which option would yield
C) 9 exponential decay of the money in the
D) 11 account?

2. A) Each successive year, 5% of the previous

account balance is withdrawn from the
If 4x + 9 = 59, what is the value of 8x + 9? account.
B) Each successive year, $500 is withdrawn
from the account.

3. C) Each successive year, 3% of the original

value is withdrawn from the account.
z4 – 18z2 + 81
D) Each successive year, $300 is withdrawn
Which of the following is equivalent to the from the account.
expression above?
A) (z – 9)4
B) (z – 3)4
C) (z2 + 9)(z + 3)(z – 3)
D) (z – 3)2(z + 3)2
6. 8.
f(t) = (t + 11)(t – 11)
The function f is defined as shown. For what
value of x does the function f reach its
maximum value ?
A) -11
B) 0
C) 11 In the figure above, three lines intersect at
D) 121 point P. If x = 35 and y = 45, what is the value
of z ?
A) 100
B) 80
7.
C) 70
D) 10

9.
Ameile is planning a rave in a 1,950 square-
meter room. If there should be no more than
3 square meters per person, what is the
minimum number of people that could attend
this event?
The graph above models the daily profit y in
dollars, that a website expects to make from A) 300
selling socks for a price of x dollars. Based B) 650
on the model, what is the maximum daily
profit, in dollars? C) 2,700
D) 5,850
 10. 12.
Which of the following expression is The circumference of Mars is estimated to be
equivalent to (27x8 y4)1/3 , where x ≥ 0 and 21,345 km at the equator. Which of the
y≥0? following best approximates the diameter, in
miles, of Mars’ equator?
A) 3x2 y4/3
(1 kilometer = 0.62137 miles)
B) 3x8/3 y4/3
A) 2,034 miles
C) 9x2 y4
B) 4,222 miles
D) 9x8/3 y4
C) 5,132 miles
D) 6,794 miles

13.
11.
An ecologist selected a random sample of 50
beavers from a river and found that the mean
weight of the beavers in the sample was 42
pounds(lbs), with an associated margin of
error of 3.1 lbs. Which of the following is the
best interpretation of the ecologist’s
The table above lists the heights, to the
findings?
nearest meter, of a random sample of saguaro
cacti. The outlier measurement of 15 meters A) All beavers in the sample have a weight
is an error. Of the mean, median and range of between 38.9lbs and 45.1 lbs.
the values listed, which will change the most
if the 15-meter measurement is removed B) Most beavers in the river have a weight
from the data? between 38.9lbs and 45.1 lbs

A) Median C) Any weight between 38.9lbs and 45.1 lbs

is a plausible value for the mean weight of the
B) Mean beavers in the sample
C) Range D) Any weight between 38.9lbs and 45.1lbs
is a plausible value for the mean weight of
D) They will all change by the same amount
beavers in the river.
 14. 16.
A function fsatisfies f(1) = 4 and f(4) = 8. A In 2010, the population of Island X and Island
function g satisfies g(1) = 3 and g(8) = 4. Y were equal. From 2005 to 2010, the
What is the value of f(g(8)) ? population of Island X increased by 20% and
population of Island Y decreased by 20%. If
the population of Island X was 10,000 in
2005, what is the population of Island Y in
2005 ?
A) 15,000
B) 12,500
C) 10,000
15.
D) 9,600

17.

Between which two consecutive months

shown did the average price of one ton of
beans decrease the most?
A) May to June The complete graph of the function f is shown
in the xy-plane above. For what value of x is
B) June to July the value of f(x) at its minimum?
C) July to August A) -6
D) August to September B) -4
C) -1
D) 5
 18. 21.
When 6 times then number x is added to 5, A tank initially contains 4,786 cubic inches
the result is 11. What number results when 3 of orange juice. A pump begins emptying the
times x is added to 8 ? orange juice at a constant rate of 36 cubic
inches per minute. Which of the following
A) 5
functions best approximates the volume h(t),
B) 11 in cubic inches, orange juice in the tank t
minutes after pumping begins, for 0 ≤ t ≤ 86
C) 8 ?
D) 9 A) h(t) = 4,786 – 36t
B) h(t) = 4,786 – 86t
C) h(t) = 4,786 + 36t
D) h(t) = 4,786 + 86t
19.
x2 – ax + 20 = 0
In the equation above, a is a constant and
a > 0. If the equation has two integer
solutions, what is a least positive value of a?
22.
The graph of y = f(x) is a line in the xy-plane
that passes through the point (0, 7) and has a
slope of 3. Which of the following equations
could define the function f ?
1
A) f(x) = − x + 3
7
20. 1
B) f(x) = − x + 7
There are four atoms of hydrogen and one 3
atom of carbon in one molecule of methane C) f(x) = 3x + 3
gas. How many atoms of hydrogen are there
in 33 molecules of methane gas ? D) f(x) = 7x + 3