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Select the best answer for questions 4. Use the order of operations to
1–60. Fill in the correct bubble on your simplify the expression
answer sheet. (9
2 2)  (36  9)  8.
1. Which rule will generate the values of F 25
y from the values of x ? G 26
H 27
x 1 2 3 4
I 28
y
4
1 4 11
5. A technician scoops out 25 gallons of
A Subtract 5 from the cube of x. a chemical from a container containing
B Subtract 8 from the square of 300 gallons of the chemical. Which
x + 1. equation can be used to find how
much of the chemical, p, remains?
C Add 7 to x.
A 25p  300
D Subtract 5 from the square of x.
B 300  25  p
2. The numbers represented below are C p
25  300
called square numbers. What is the D 300
25  p
next number in the pattern?
6. What is the value of 3x 2  2 when
x 
4?
F
142
G
46
H 50
I 146
F 17 H 24
G 20 I 25

3. The average cat consumes about

1.27
105 calories per year. Which
shows that number in standard
notation?
A 1,270
B 12,700
C 127,000
D 1,270.000

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7. Bill had 322 stamps. He can put 23 10. One bowling alley gives awards for
stamps on each page of an album. the highest average scores. The table
He estimated he would need shows the four top averages. Who
300  25 or 12 pages in all. Is it won the third-place trophy?
reasonable that Bill buys 12
album pages? Bowler Average Score

A No, he rounded 23 up and 322 Don 218.178

down, so he will need more than Pete 218.036
12 pages.
Susan 218.158
B No, he only needs 11 pages.
Earlene 218.060
C No, he rounded, so he will need
less than 12 pages.
F Don H Susan
D Yes.
G Pete I Earlene
8. The AquaZoo aquarium will put a
2
maximum of 15 fish in each display 11. Rachel bought 3 pounds of grapes.
3
tank. How many tanks will they need 1
to display 565 fish? Her brother ate  of the grapes.
3 1
F at least 36 tanks Then her father ate  of the grapes
8
G at least 37 tanks that were left over. How many pounds
H exactly 37.67 tanks of grapes are left?
I at least 38 tanks 5
A 2 pounds
36
9. There are 1,860 steps from the street 5
B 2 pounds
level of the Empire State Building to 16
5
the observation deck on the 102nd C 2 pounds
floor. What is the prime factorization 8
5
of 1,860? D 3 pounds
24
A 2  32  7  9
B 2 2  3  5  31 12. What is the effect of multiplying a
C 2 2  3  5  7  11 whole number by a number less than
1 and greater than 0?
D 2  3 2  5  29
F The product will be less than 0.
G The product will be greater than 0
and less than 1.
H The product will be greater than 1.
I The product will be less than the
whole number.

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3
13. Warren bought a piece of pipe 8 16. When the point (5, 1) is translated 4
4 units to the right and 3 units down,
11
feet long. He cut off a piece 4 feet what are the new coordinates?
12
long to fix the shower. How much F (1,
2)
extra pipe did he have? H (5,
2)
7 G (9,
1)
A 3 feet
12 I (9,
2)
5
B 3 feet
6 17. There are 126 students in 4 seventh
1 grade classes. Three classes each
C 4 feet
12 have 31 students. How many
3 students are in the fourth class?
D 4 feet
4 A 31 C 33
B 32 D 34
14. What is the solution to the
following equation? 18. Which of the following graphs
t is linear?

()  24
6
F H
F t4 4
3
4
3

G t 
4 2
1
2
1
x
H t 
144
4
3
2
1 0 1

1
2 3 4
4
3
2
1 0 1

1
2 3 4

2
2
I t  144
3
3

4
4

15. Which ordered pair corresponds to a

point plotted on the coordinate grid? G 4
I 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
●
4
3
2
1 0 1
4
3
2
1 0 1
4 2 3 4 2 3 4
3
1
1
● ●
2
2
2

3
3
1

4
4

3
2
1 0 1 2 3 4

1

2

3
●

A (
4,–2)
B (
4, 2)
C (
2, 4)
D (4,
2)

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19. Which could be the ordered pair for 22. What is the y-intercept and the slope
the point where the line in the of the following linear equation?
following graph crosses the y-axis? 1
y  (x )  5
3 1
F slope  ; y -intercept 5  (0, 25)
4 3
G slope  3; y -intercept 5  (0, 5)
3
2
1

4
3
2
1 0 1 1
H slope  ; y -intercept 5  (5, 0)
2 3 4

1

2
3

3 1

4 I slope  ; y -intercept 5  (0, 5)
3
5
A ( , 0) C (
2, 0) 23. How many more shaded squares
2
5 would be needed so that the ratios of
B (0,
2) D (0, )
2 white squares to shaded squares on
both sides of the line would form
20. The table below shows the x- and a proportion?
y-coordinates of some ordered pairs.
Which equation describes the
relationship of the x values to the
y values?
A 5
x 2 3 4 5
B 6
y 8 18 32 50
C 7
D 8
F y  4x
G y  x2 4 24. Roberto found the length of his
H y  2x 2 bedroom in feet, inches, centimeters,
I y  3x  2 and meters. The number of units he
found are 4.6; 15; 180; and 457. How
21. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington many inches long is Roberto’s
D.C. is 99 feet tall, 118 feet wide, and bedroom?
188 feet long. Which fraction F 4.6
describes the ratio of length to width? G 15
94 H 180
A 
59 I 457
99
B 
188
118
C 
99
118
D 
188
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25. A flagpole casts a shadow 36 feet 28. Triangles DNS and KYS are similar.
long. A 5.5-foot tall boy standing next Which angle has the same measure
to the flagpole casts a shadow 8 feet as
D?
long. What is the height of the
D Y
flagpole?
A 13.75 feet
S
B 24.75 feet N
C 52.36 feet K
D 162 feet
F
K H
DSN
26. The capacity of the gas tank in G
Y I
YSK
Ms. Adler’s car is 18 gallons. The
table shows the distance she can 29. Which is the most precise
drive with one tank of gas. What is measurement for the mass of
the fuel efficiency of Ms. Adler’s car an apple?
when she is driving on the highway? A 0.1 kilogram
B 0.14 kilogram
Location Distance (in miles)
C 140 grams
Highway 387 D 145 grams
In town 252
30. What scale factor was used to draw
F 14 miles per gallon the alligator?
G 21.5 miles per gallon
Alligator Length
H 135 miles per gallon
Actual Scale Drawing
I 6,966 miles per gallon
15 feet 30 inches
27. What is the area of this rectangle in 1
square inches? F 
24
1
4 ft G 
6
2 ft 1
H 
12
1
A 8 square inches I 
2
B 96 square inches
C 144 square inches
D 1,152 square inches

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31. If the two right triangles are similar, 34. What is the mean of the following
what is the measure of x? data set?
1, 99, 2, 98, 3, 97, 4, 96, 5, 95
F 47
x°
G 50
50° H 75
I 100

A 30 35. If data set A has a greater mean than

data set B, which of the following
B 40 must be true?
C 50 A Each item in set A has a greater
D 60 value than the corresponding item
in set B.
32. News of the World magazine devotes B Set A has a greater median than
40 of its 128 pages to advertising. set B.
What percent of the magazine
C Set A has a greater mode than
is advertising?
set B.
F 3.3%
D The values in set A have a greater
G 31% average than the values in set B.
H 31.2%
I 31.25% 36. Jesse found the mass of his pet
mouse in grams every Sunday. After
33. SmileMart has 285 televisions in six weeks his chart showed: 20, 22,
stock. If they hold a sale and sell 190 25, 29, 32, 34. How many times did
of these televisions, what percent of the mouse’s mass increase 2 grams
the original number of televisions from the previous week’s mass?
would be left? F once
A 3.33% G twice
H three times
B 23.8%
I five times
1
C 33%
3
2
D 66%
3

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37. Which of the following would NOT be 40. Six squares intersect as shown in the
a good way to show the approximate figure. How many points of
average income in 8 different intersection are there?
countries?
A bar graph
B circle graph
C histogram
D stem-and-leaf plot

38. Two of these lines are parallel. Which

are a pair of corresponding angles?
F 6
4 G 8
3 8 H 10
2 7
1 6 I 12
5
41. Which figure CANNOT have an
obtuse angle?
F
1 and
2 H
1 and
5
A equilateral triangle
G
1 and
3 I
1 and
6
B isosceles triangle
39. The corners of the square are on the C regular pentagon
circle. What is true of the diameter of D regular hexagon
the circle and one side of the square?
42. What do you always get if you draw
one diagonal of a rhombus?

A They are congruent.

B They are perpendicular. F acute triangles
C They are both chords of the circle. G obtuse triangles
D The diameter is shorter than H isosceles triangles
the side. I equilateral triangles

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43. Which three points are the vertices of 46. Which figure does NOT look the
an isosceles triangle? same after a reflection across a
horizontal line?
4

●
W 3
●Q F H
2
1

4
3
2
1 0 1 2 3 4
● ●

1
N T
●

2 X
●

3
E
4
G I
A Points W, Q, and N
B Points Q, X, and N
C Points Q, T, and N 47. Which point in the figure is a midoint?
D Points E, N, and X
Q
44. Which isosoceles triangle is NOT
divided into congruent parts? P
R
F H
S
T

A P
B R
G I
C S
D T

48. What is the value of x in the

parallelogram shown?
45. What types of symmetry does this
design have? x
120
15 cm

●
30 cm

F 15 centimeters
A rotational symmetry G 25 centimeters
B line symmetry H 30 centimeters
C line and rotational symmetry I 60 centimeters
D no symmetry

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49. How long is side QR in PQR? 52. A round garden has a diameter of 20
feet. How much fencing is needed to
Q go around the garden? Use 3.14 for .
F 62.8 feet
7 cm

90
G 314 feet
R H 628 feet
P 24 cm
I 1,256 feet
A 12.9 centimeters
53. What is the total of the probabilities of
B 25 centimeters all the events in the sample space?
C 31 centimeters A 0
D 35 centimeters B 0.5
C 1
50. Between which two whole numbers
would you find 1
83
? D It depends on the experiment.
F 9 and 10
54. A rectangular gift box is 1 foot long, 8
G 10 and 11 inches wide, and 3 inches deep.
H 12 and 13 What is the surface area of the box?
I 13 and 14 F 82 square inches
G 156 square inches
51. The bases of two cylindrical fountains
H 288 square inches
have diameters of 20 yards and 24
yards. What is the difference in their I 312 square inches
area of the bases? Use 3.14 for .
A 50.24 square yards
B 138.16 square yards
C 452.16 square yards
D 552.64 square yards

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55. Tanya has 3 red hats and 2 blue hats. 58. Two shoes are drawn together from a
If she picks one at random, what is the box containing 10 pairs. What is the
probability she will get a blue hat? probability of getting one left shoe
A 20% C 50% and one right shoe?
B 40% D 60% 1
F 
2
56. Which shows the top view of the 5
G 
model shown below? 19
9
H 
10

I 1

59. Which of the following is a true

statement about a spinner?
F
A All the outcomes are equally likely.
B If you spin a color, on the next spin
you are more likely to land on
G either side of that color than on
that color.
C If you spin a color, you have less
chance of spinning the same color
H the next time.
D The spins are independent events.

60. What is the solution to the

I following inequality?
(4y)
 
12
9
57. Which of the following is NOT the F y  
27
probability of getting a two on a 8
single roll of a number cube? G y 
4
9
1
A  H y  27
6
B 16.7% I y
27

C one out of six

D 0.15

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