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TEST 2 QUESTIONS
SECTION 3

1. At a wallpaper store 30 square feet of wallpaper costs ↔

6. In the figure below BE bisects ∠FOD. What is the
$18. At this price, how much does 90 square feet of
measure of ∠ FOA?
wallpaper cost?
A. $24
B. $36
A B C
C. $48
D. $54
E. $72

x x2
2. = 5, 2 i 2 =
y y O
A. 10
B. 25 35°
C. 50
D. 100 F E D
E. 125

3. If x + y > 8, which of the following statements is

true?
A. x 2 + 2xy + y 2 = 64. A. 35°
B. x 2 + 2xy + y 2 > 64. B. 55°
C. x 2 + 2xy + y 2 < 64. C. 70°
D. x 2 + 2xy + y 2 > 16. D. 110°
E. x 2 + 2xy + y 2 < 16. E. 145°

4. What is the perimeter of a triangle in the xy-coordinate 7. The sum of two numbers is 10, and the difference of
plane whose vertices are the points (5,8), (5,2), and the two numbers is 4. Which is the smaller of the two
(9,8)? numbers?
A. 6 A. 3
B. 10 B. 4
C. 6
C. 2 13 D. 7
D. 2 + 2 13 E. 8
E. 10 + 2 13

5. 4, 12, 36, 108, and 324 are the first five terms of a
sequence. Each term in the sequence is formed by
multiplying the preceding term by 3. 4(3)10 is what
term in this sequence?
A. 12
B. 11
C. 10
D. 9
E. 8

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8. Below are the strikeout totals for two pitchers, Tom 12. The rectangle below in the xy-coordinate plane has
and Frank, during three games. How many strikeouts two points on the x-axis and two points on the graph
must Frank have on his next game so that Frank’s of the function f (x) = −x 2 + 11. What is the area of
strikeout average for 4 games is equal to Tom’s the rectangle?
strikeout average for 3 games?

Tom’s Frank’s
Strikeout Strikeout
Game # Total Total
1 7 8
2 12 13
3 8 5
–3 3
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. 12

13. 2 xy + z = x 2 . If x = −3 and y = 2 then z =

x−3 x
9. = 3, =
4 5
10. When half a number is increased by 13, the result is 14. In the figure below line a and line b are not parallel.
74. What is the number? If line t bisects the acute angle PQR, this means y
cannot equal what number?

s
11. A survey of college freshmen asked them if they
have decided on a major. Part of the information
t
that was gathered is shown in the table below. What a
percent of the women surveyed said that they have 110°
chosen a major?

Men Women Total R Q

b
Yes 1,000 y°

No 500 P

Total 3,000 5,000

15. At Jim’s Italian Restaurant, the early bird special in-

cludes one main course and two side items, no two
of which are the same. There are four main courses
to choose from and four side items to choose from.
How many different specials can be ordered?

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16. The radius of the outer circle is twice the radius of 17. Let n = c ! p, where p is a prime number, and c is a
the inner circle. What is the probability that a point composite number less than p. The number c has
chosen at random inside the outer circle will be in- three unique prime factors. How many unique prime
side the inner shaded region? factors does n 2 have?

18. A parabola whose equation is in the form y = 2x 2 +

bx + c passes through the points (3,16) and (1,−12).
What is the value of y when x = 4?

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SECTION 4
a 3. A salesperson earns $1,000 per month plus 8% of
1. = b where b is a positive integer. What is the
3 sales. Which of the following represents the sales-
smallest possible value of a? person’s monthly salary if his total sales for the month
A. 1 is (s)?
B. 3 A. 1,000 + 8s
C. 5 B. 1,000 + 0.8s
D. 7 C. 1,000 + 0.08s
E. 9 D. 800 + 0.8s
E. 80 + 0.08s
2. Which of the following graphs is symmetric with
respect to the y-axis? 4. Two movie theaters, Theater A and Theater B, sell
tickets at two different prices. Theater A sells tickets
A. at $6 per ticket, and Theater B sells tickets at $8 per
ticket. Theater A sold 15,000 tickets. How many
tickets does Theater B need to sell to earn the same
amount of money?
A. 90,000
B. 45,000
C. 15,000
D. 11,250
B.
E. 7,500

5. Snow accumulation for five cities in 2000 and 2001

are shown below. Which city had the greatest de-
crease in snowfall accumulation from 2000 to 2001?

C. Snow Accumulation in Inches

70
60
50
40
30

D. 20
10
0
City A City B City C City D City E

2000 2001

E. A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E

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6. The average (arithmetic mean) of five numbers is 10. 10. x2 + 9x + 20 = 0, which of the following lists all pos-
The sum of three of the numbers is 30. What is the sible values of x?
sum of the other two numbers? A. −4
A. 5 B. 5
B. 10 C. −4 and −5
C. 20 D. −4 and 5
D. 30 E. 4 and −5
E. 40 x4
____ ____ 11. = y 8 z12 , therefore, x =
16
7. In the figure seen below, AB ⊥ BC , x =
A. 8y 2z3
A
B. 2y 4z3
C. 8y 4z3
x° D. 16y 2z3
E. 2y 2z3

12. The function of f (x) is graphed below. At which of

1
25° the following points would a line with a slope −
C 2
B
be perpendicular to f(x)?
A. 25
B. 65
C. 90 7
D. 115
6
E. 155
5 D
8. During a basketball game, Marla scored all of her C
4
points either from a two-point basket or a three-point E
basket. If she scored 15 points, which of the follow- 3
B
ing could be the number of three-point baskets that 2 A
Marla scored?
A. 8 1
B. 6
C. 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
D. 3
E. 2 A. A
B. B
9. An experiment requires that all heights are listed in C. C
feet. When gathering the data, heights were mea- D. D
sured in both feet (F) and inches (I ). Which of the E. E
following equation will convert all measurements to
feet?
I
A. F +
12
B. F + 12I
C. 12F + I
D. 12(F + I)
(F + I )
E.
12

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13. A four-digit (0–9) password must meet the following 17. The perimeter of a rectangle is 72. The length of the
restrictions: rectangle is three times the width. What is the area of
• The first digit must be prime. the rectangle?
• The second digit must be odd. A. 3
• The third digit must be divisible by 5. B. 9
• The fourth digit must be a nonprime odd number. C. 27
How many possible passwords of this type exist? D. 81
E. 243
A. 40
B. 45
18. The average (arithmetic mean) of five positive integers
C. 80
is 56. The difference between the largest and smallest
D. 90
integer is 4. What is the median of the numbers?
E. 120
A. 55
14. x 2 + 14x + 49 = 49 − x 2, x = B. 55.5
C. 56
A. 0
D. 56.5
B. 7
E. 57
C. −7 and 7
D. 0 and 7 1 3 5 5
E. 0 and −7 19. x 2 = k 2 and k 2 = y 6 , what is the value of x in
terms of y?
15. Which of the following could be the lengths of the y
sides of a right triangle? A.
2
A. 3,4,6 B. y
B. 4,7,10 C. 2y
C. 6,8,10 y
D.
D. 5 , 5 2 , 10 4
E. 5,12,15 E. 4y

16. An airplane traveled from City A to City B and then

from City B to City C. From City A, the airplane
traveled east 700 miles and then north 800 miles to
get to City B. From City B, the airplane traveled
west 1,200 miles and then north 400 miles to get to
City C. How many miles is City C from City A?
A. 500
B. 1,200
C. 1,300
D. 2,400
E. 2,600

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20. The graphs of f(x) and g(x) are given below. If g(x) =
f(x + h) + k, what is the value of h?
y

–6 –4 –2 0 2 4 6
x
–2

–4

–6

f(x)

–6 –4 –2 0 2 4 6
x
–2

–4

–6

g(x)

A. −5
B. 5
C. −3
D. 3
E. −2

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SECTION 9

1. A jar contains 4 blue marbles, 2 red marbles, and 6 4. If n is an odd number, which of the following is not
green marbles. What is the probability that a marble odd?
chosen at random is red? I. n + 2.
1 II. 2n.
A. III. n + 1.
2
1 A. I only
B. B. II only
3
1 C. I and III
C. D. II and III
4
E. I, II, and III
1
D.
5 5. The ratio of Dan’s height to Phil’s height is propor-
1 tional to the ratio of Jim’s height to Mike’s height. If
E.
6 Dan is 76 inches tall, Phil is 80 inches tall, and Mike
____ ____ ____ ____ is 74 inches tall, how tall is Jim?
2. In the triangle seen below, BD ⊥ AC , AB ≅ CB , A. 70.3 in.
and the measure of angle ABC is 60°, which of the B. 77.9 in.
following statements are true? C. 79.3 in.
I. Triangle ABC _is___an equilateral triangle. ____ D. 82.2 in.
II. The length of AB
____ is twice the length of AD_.___ E. 84.5 in.
III. The length of AD is equal to the length of CD.
6. The legend in a certain pictograph uses to
B represent a certain number of computers. The picto-
graph below represents 1,750 computers. Therefore,

represents how many computers?

A. 250
B. 500
C. 750
D. 1,000
A C
D E. 1,250

A. I only 7. a 2 + b 2 + 72 = 74 − 2 a b, a + b =
B. II only
A. 7
C. I and III
B. 5
D. II and III
C. 3
E. I, II, and III
D. 1
E. 0
3. 20 is 40% of x. x is 25% of what number?
A. 200
B. 50
C. 20
D. 8
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8. The distance between adjacent marks on the num- 12. x + 2y = 1 and 5x − 4y = −23. x − y =
ber line is one unit. Use the number line below to A. 2
determine which of the following points is not equal B. −3
to x − y . C. −5
D. 5
a y b x 0 c d e E. 3

A. a − b 13. What is the value of x + y?

B. e − d
C. c
D. x
E.  x 130°

9. When x is increased by 5, the result is 60% of in-

creasing x by 15. What is the value of x?
A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12 x° y°
E. 14

1
10. On a map of an inch represents 15 miles. If John A. 30
4
B. 50
is taking a 700-mile trip, which of the following
C. 80
equations represents the distance left on the trip if he
D. 110
has traveled x inches on the map?
E. 130
A. 700 − 15x
B. 700 − 30x 14. The graph of f(x) below −f(a) = 2; which of the fol-
C. 700 − 45x lowing is the value of a?
D. 700 − 60x
E. 700 − 75x
2

11. In the xy-coordinate plane, line k is a reflection of the

3 1
line l about the line y = x. If the slope of line l is − ,
5
which of the following is the slope of line k? 0
–4 –3 –2 –1 1 2 3 4

3
A. − –1
5
5
B. − –2
3
3
C. A. −2
5
B. −1
5
D. C. 0
3 D. 1
8 E. 2
E. −
3

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15. The cube shown below has edges of length 4. Points

A, B, and C are midpoints of three different edges.
What is the area of triangle ABC?

A B

A. 2 3
B. 4 3
C. 8 3
D. 16 3
E. 32 3

16. X = x 2 + 7 x + 5. If 2a = 3a , then what is a

possible value of a?
A. 1.4
B. 1.2
C. 0.7
D. 0.6
E. 0