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1. What is the relationship between  ABC and  XYZ ?

Z A

X C

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Y D B E

A Both are about 90°.

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B Both are about 45°.

C Both are straight angles.

D Both are obtuse angles.

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2. The dimensions of Joe’s rectangular garden are 18 feet by 12 feet. Joe wants to conduct an
experiment to determine whether using fertilizer in the garden makes a difference. The
fertilizer costs $0.45 per square foot of ground covered. How much will it cost to cover half
of the garden with fertilizer?

A $216.00

B $97.20
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C $48.60

D $24.30
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3. A baker has a circular cake pan that 5. The clock in Mr. Neal’s classroom has
has a radius of 10 cm. What is the a circumference of 34.5 inches. What
approximate area of the bottom of is the approximate diameter of the
the cake pan? clock?

A 1,257 cm 2 A 2 inches

B 314 cm 2 B 6 inches

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C 63 cm 2 C 11 inches

D 31 cm 2 D 22 inches

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4. What is the distance from the center
of a circle to any point on the circle?

A radius

B circumference
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C diameter

D chord
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6. Which picture shows only a translation of polygon ABCDE?

A y B y

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x x
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7. PQR has the coordinates 9. There are 2 yellow marbles, 4 red

 3, 1  ,  5, 2  , and  4, 3  . marbles, 6 blue marbles, and 3 green

PQ R has coordinates  1, 2 , marbles in a bag. Miguel will choose a

marble at random from the bag. What
1, 3 , and  0, 4  . Which choice is the probability that the marble will
describes the translation of PQR to be yellow?

 P Q R ? 2

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A
15
A left 4 units and down 1 unit
2
B right 4 units and up 1 unit B
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C left 4 units and up 1 unit
1
C
5
D right 4 units and down 1 unit

1
D
9

8. Two parallel lines are located 4 inches

apart. A circle with a diameter of
5 inches is drawn in the same plane.
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What is the maximum number of 10. A restaurant is serving a platter of
intersections possible between the vegetable strips with 10 pieces of
two parallel lines and the circle? broccoli, 15 carrots, and 5 pieces of
cauliflower. What is the probability of
A 6 choosing a carrot without looking?
B 4 1
A
6
C 3
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B
3

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C
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D 1
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11. Hector has 3 shirts, 3 pairs of shorts, 12. Derek’s math teacher put some candy
and 2 pairs of shoes in his locker for in a brown paper bag. The bag
gym class. How many different outfits contains 4 lemon, 6 lime, 8 cherry,
consisting of 1 shirt, 1 pair of shorts, 2 pineapple, 5 orange, and 5 grape
and 1 pair of shoes can he make? candies. All 14 students ahead of
Derek selected a candy to eat, but
A 3 no one got pineapple. What is the
probability that Derek will draw out

D
B 8 a pineapple candy?
C 12 7
A 8
D 18

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B 2

7
C 15

1
D 8
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13. The 10 students who sell the most magazines in a contest get to draw a card from a box
containing 10 cards. The students keep the card they draw. Three cards are red, and the
rest are blue. Students who draw a red card win a T-shirt. Students who draw a blue
card win a notebook. The table below shows the first three draws. Devon will make the
fourth draw.

Results of the Card Draw

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Order of Draw Student Color of Card Drawn
1 Sarah blue
2 Evan red
3 Tara blue

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4 Devon ?

What is the probability that Devon will win a T-shirt?

2
A
7

2
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B
10

3
C
7

3
D
10
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14. The fair spinner below is spun 15. Brad used the formula d  n to find
three times. 5
the distance in miles, d, he was from
a stroke of lightning. In the formula,
Red n is the number of seconds that have
elapsed between seeing the lightning

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Blue and hearing the thunder. How far
away was Brad from the lightning if
30 seconds elapsed between Brad
What is the probability that the
seeing the lightning and hearing the

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spinner will land on red the first time,
blue the second time, and red the third thunder?
time?

1 A 3 miles
A 8
B 6 miles
1 C 9 miles
B
2
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D 12 miles
2
C 3

3 16. In designing a gasoline storage tank,

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2 an engineer had to use the equation
2.5t = 1.625, where t is the minimum
thickness of the walls. What is the
required minimum thickness of the
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walls?

A 0.25 units

B 0.56 units

C 0.65 units
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17. What is the ratio of the amount of rainfall on Wednesday to the amount of rainfall on
Friday?

Daily Rainfall
4

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2

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Day

A 1:8

B 1:5
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C 1:3

D 3: 5

18. Which expression has the same value as 4  k  4  3 ?

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A k   4 +3 

B 3  k  4

C 4   k  3

4   k +3 
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19. In parallelogram QRST below, what is the approximate measure of QRS ?

Q T

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A 30°

B 70°

C 110°

D 150°
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20. What is the perimeter of the rectangle drawn in the coordinate plane?

y
+6

+5

+4

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+3

+2

+1

—6 —5 —4 —3 —2 —1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 x
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—2

—3

—4

—5

—6

A 12 units
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B 8 units

C 6 units

D 4 units
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21. The dimensions of a swimming pool 23. The diameter of circle F is 5. Circle G
are given below in the drawing. has a diameter that is double that of
circle F. Which statement is correct
25 m about circle G?

A The circumference of circle G is

15 m half the circumference of circle F.

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B The circumference of circle G is
30 m double the circumference of
10 m
circle F.

C The radius of circle G is the same

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as the radius of circle F.

D The radius of circle G is half the

What is the area of the swimming radius of circle F.
pool?

A 150 m 2

B 225 m 2
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C 375 m 2

D 600 m 2

22. The area of a rectangle is

352 square inches. The measure of
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each of the shorter sides equals the

perimeter of a square with 4-inch
sides. What is the measure of each of
the longer sides of the rectangle?

A 16 inches

B 22 inches
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C 44 inches

D 88 inches

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24. MNO is translated so that N has coordinates (14, 4).

y
+
12
+
11
+
10

D
+
9
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8
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7
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6
+
5
+
4
+
M
3
+
2
+
1
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— — — — — — + + + + + + + +
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6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15
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—
1
—
2
—
3
—
4
—
5
—
6
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What are the coordinates of M ?

A (6, 4)

B (6, 7)

C (11, 4)
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D (11, 7)

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25. ( )
On rectangle JKLM, J is located at the point 7, —3 . If JKLM is translated 9 units to the
left and 4 units down, where will J be located?

A (16, — 7)

B (16, 1)

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C (— 2, 1)

D (— 2, — 7)

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26. Circle M is centered at  0, 0  and has 27. Nathan drew a circle on a grid with a
radius of 4 units and the point  2, —1 
a radius of 4. Circle N is centered at
as its center. Which of the following
 2, 2 and has a radius of 3. At how
pairs of coordinates represent points
many points do these two circles
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on the circle?
intersect?
A  2, —5 and  6, —1
A 0

B 1 B  2, 3 and  —1, —1

C 2
C  4, 0  and  0, 4 
D 3
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D  8, —4  and  6, —3
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28. A board game has 64 colored cards: 30. Gordon tossed a fair coin 20 times and
15 red, 9 blue, 10 yellow, 15 green, recorded his results in the table below.
10 orange, and 5 purple. What is the
probability of choosing a blue or
Heads Tails
purple card on the first draw?

45
A
64

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Based on the rules of probability,
14 which statement is true?
B
64
A Gordon will most likely toss tails
on the next toss of the coin.

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9
C 64
B The number of heads Gordon
actually tossed was greater than
5 the number of heads Gordon was
D 64
expected to toss.

C The number of heads Gordon

actually tossed was the same as
the number of heads Gordon was
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29. Marsha wants to find out how other
students at her school get to school expected to toss.
each day. Which of the following
D The number of heads Gordon
groups, if surveyed, would give her the
actually tossed was less than the
most accurate sample of the student
number of heads Gordon was
body?
expected to toss.
A her homeroom class

B the students on her bus

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C students waiting in the carpool

area

D members of the cycling club

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31. There are 10 blue candies, 6 brown 33. What is the value of x if 3x  4 = 103?
candies, 5 red candies, and 3 yellow
candies in a bag. Patrice is pulling A 25
candies out of the bag without looking.
She eats each candy she pulls out. If B 26 1
2
the first candy Patrice pulls out is red,
what is the probability that the second
one is brown? C 33

D
A 6 D 35 32
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B 24
34. Nine children and six adults bought
5 tickets to the circus. Which
C 23 expression represents the total cost if
c represents the cost of a child’s ticket
5 and a represents the cost of an adult’s
D 24 ticket?

9c  6a
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A

B 6c  9a
32. Gwen has a drink and a bowl of cereal
topped with fruit for breakfast every C 15 ac
morning. She has a choice of three
cereals that she can top with either D 15  a  c 
bananas, raisins, strawberries, or
blueberries. Her drink choices are
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orange juice, apple juice, or milk. How

many different breakfast combination
choices does Gwen have? 35. If H represents Harry’s age, and S
represents Steve’s age, what does the
A 10 algebraic sentence H = S + 3 mean?

B 12 A Harry is 3 years older than Steve.

C 24 B Harry is 3 years younger than

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Steve.
D 36
C Harry is 3 times as old as Steve.

D Harry and Steve are the same

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36. The graph below shows the percentage of people who work in managerial, clerical,
support, and manufacturing jobs at a company.

Company Departments

10% Managerial
Clerical

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Support
48% 25% Manufacturing

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17%

What is the approximate ratio of manufacturing workers to managerial workers at this

company?

A 1:4

B 1:5
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C 4:1

D 5:1
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1. How is negative five-tenths written 3. What is the greatest common factor of

numerically? 45 and 60?

A — A 3
0.510

B —
0 .5 B 5

C — C 15

D
5
— D 30
D 50

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2. A piece of rope 6.3 meters long is cut
into 9 equal pieces. How long is each
piece of rope?

A 0.7 meter

B 7 meters

C 15.3 meters
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D 56.7 meters
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4. Which number line shows the graph of 3 ?
2

A
2 1 0 1 2

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B
2 1 0 1 2

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2 1 0 1 2

D
2 1 0 1 2

A person can walk at a rate of 2 1 miles per hour. How long would it take the person to
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5. 2
walk 10 miles?

A 15 minutes

B 4 hours

C 10 hours
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8. Nikki made 2 gallons of punch with

6. Tom finished 1 of the 30 problems
3
fruit juice and ginger ale. The
assigned in class. Steven did 3 of recipe requires 1 12 gallons of
10

the problems. Juan finished 20% of ginger ale. What percent of the
total recipe is fruit juice?
the problems. Marcus completed 8

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A 50%
out of 30 problems. Who completed

the most problems? B 33 13%

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A Tom C 25%

B Steven D 10%
C Juan

D Marcus
9. David and three friends had lunch
together. They all ordered the same
meal except David who had an extra
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7. A salesman at a jewelry store gets soft drink at a cost of $1.07 (including
paid 30% of the selling price of each tax). The total bill (including tax) was
piece of jewelry he sells. About how $10.27. What was David’s share of the
much will he get paid for selling a ring total bill?
that costs $495?
A $1.07
A $30
B $2.30
B $80
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C $2.57
C $120
D $3.37
D $150
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10. Which of the following is equivalent 12. What is the value of n in the equation
2 4
to 2 ∑ 33 ∑ 52 ?
n
 3  12 ?
4∑3 ∑5 6

25 A 90
A 6
B 54

D
5
B 6
5
C
2
2
C 3
3

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D
2
1
D 2

13. Evaluate this expression when x = 2

and y = 3.
11. The vestibule is a small round
chamber in the central part of the 4 x2  3xy2  y2
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inner ear. If the vestibule is
0.005 meter long, how is this A 97
expressed in scientific notation?
B 80
A 0.5  10 3 m
C 79
B 5  10 3 m
D 61
3
C 0.5  10 m
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14. Simplify: 6b + 4 a + 3a - 2b

A 4 b + 7a

B 11ab

C 9 a - 2b

D
D 10 a + b

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1 B 2 – Measurement

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2 C 2 – Measurement
3 B 2 – Measurement
4 A 3 – Geometry
5 C 3 – Geometry
6 D 3 – Geometry

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7 C 3 – Geometry
8 B 3 – Geometry
9 A 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
10 C 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
11 D 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
12 D 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
13 A 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
14 A 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
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15 B 5 – Algebra
16 C 5 – Algebra
17 B 5 – Algebra
18 D 5 – Algebra
19 C 2 – Measurement
20 A 2 – Measurement
21 D 2 – Measurement
22 B 2 – Measurement
23 B 3 – Geometry
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24 D 3 – Geometry
25 D 3 – Geometry
26 C 3 – Geometry
27 A 3 – Geometry
28 B 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
29 A 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
30 D 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
31 A 4 – Data Analysis and Probability
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32 D 4 – Data Analysis and Probability

33 C 5 – Algebra
34 A 5 – Algebra
35 A 5 – Algebra
36 D 5 – Algebra

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3 C 1 – Number and Operations
4 B 1 – Number and Operations
5 B 1 – Number and Operations
6 A 1 – Number and Operations

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7 D 1 – Number and Operations
8 C 1 – Number and Operations
9 D 1 – Number and Operations
10 A 1 – Number and Operations
11 D 1 – Number and Operations
12 B 5 – Algebra
13 C 5 – Algebra
14 A 5 – Algebra
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Raw Score Scale Score

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2 330
3 330

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43 368
44 369
45 370
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