EST I - Math
EST I - Math
EST I - Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
Questions 1 and 2 refer to the following 4. In the xy-plane, the equation of the line (d)
information. passing through A (1;3) and perpendicular to
line 3x-2y = 6 is:
The magnitude of the electrostatic force F
between two point charges in vacuum is given by A. 𝑦 𝑥
𝐹 where: B. 𝑦 𝑥
C. 𝑦 𝑥 3
F is the magnitude of the force exerted
q1 is the charge on one body D. 𝑦 𝑥
q2 is the charge on the other body
r is the distance between the two bodies
ε0 is the permittivity of the vacuum.
1. Isolate r.
A. 𝑟
B. 𝑟
C. 𝑟
A.
B.
C.
D.
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6. Which value of x makes the equation Questions 9 and 10 refer to the following
3𝑥 2 14 true? information.
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
3
10. Which measure of center is the same in both
companies?
A. Range
B. Mean
8. A game consists of throwing a dart into a C. Median
target divided into 2 sections: The inner D. Mode
section rewards a player with 5 points, while
the outer section gets him 3 points only. Kurt 11. If f(x) = x2-5x-6 and g(x) = -3-x, what is the
throws 6 darts and hits the inner section x value of f(g(-1))?
times. What is Kurt’s total score in terms of
x? A. 13
B. 8
A. 8x+24 C. 0
B. 2x+18 D. 30
C. -2x+18
D. 6x+4
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𝑥 3𝑥 2𝑥 1
𝑦
𝑥 3
X 2 5 -3
12. Which of the following expressions is
Y -1 -7 ?
equivalent to y?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4 17. In the above graph, the shaded region is the
4𝑥 𝑦 2
solution of the system . For x=0,
14. If , which of the following 𝑦 2
proportions is equivalent? what is the highest integer value of y?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A. y 0.18x 32
19. What is the value of ?
B. y 1.18x 32
C. y 3.2 0.18
D. y 3.2 1.18 20. If the expression is written in the form
a+bi where a and b are real numbers and
𝑖 √ 1, what is the value of a?
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Section II
Calculator is required
(60 minutes)
1. The secret value, k, of a 4-digit pin code abcd
is obtained by subtracting the triple of b from
c, and dividing the resulting expression by
half of the sum of a and d. What is the secret
value, k, in terms of a,b,c and d?
A. 𝑘
B. 𝑘
C. 𝑘
D. 𝑘
4. The graph shown represents which of the
2. A library sells new and used books. If, out of following equations?
the total of 474, there are twice as many new
books as old ones. How many new books are A. 𝑦 𝑥 3
there in the library? B. 𝑦 𝑥 3
A. 316 C. 𝑦 𝑥 3
B. 158
D. 𝑦 𝑥 3
C. 352
D. 238
5. If 𝑓 𝑥 5 2𝑥 and 𝑔 𝑥 , Which
3. What is the area of the sector defined by a of the following is not in the range of f(g(x))?
central angle of 54° in the circle of equation
x2 + y2 - 8x + 12y -12 = 0? A. -3
B. 0
A. 15π C. 5
B. 9.6π D. 6
C. 5.4π
D. 2.4π 6. A line, having a slope of - passes through
the points A (2-k ; 5) and B (-2k ; -1).
What is the value of k?
A. 11
B. 4
C. -4
D. -11
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Questions 7 and 8 refer to the following 10. In a hospital, the medical staff is composed
information. of 34 doctors and 68 nurses. How many
additional doctors should join the hospital in
The table below summarizes the results of a
order for the ratio of doctors to total number
survey about travel destination preferences for a
of medical staff to become 3 to 7?
group of 750 university students of 4different
majors.
A. 21
History Math Audit IT Total B. 19
Rome 65 35 35 15 150 C. 17
Paris 75 65 10 25 175 D. 15
Tokyo 40 115 50 20 225
27x y 18x y
NYC 70 60 30 40 200
Total 250 275 125 100 750 11. Which of the following is equivalent to the
above expression? (x and y >0)
7. In which major can you find the highest
percentage of students who prefer NYC? A. 3𝑥𝑦 3xy √2
A. History B. 3𝑥𝑦 3xy 2
B. IT C. 9𝑥𝑦 3xy 2
C. Audit
D. Math D. 9𝑥𝑦 3xy √2
8. What fraction of people who prefer Rome or 12. If sin 𝐴 cos , what is one possible value
Paris come from an Audit or Math majors? of A in radians?
A. A.
B. B.
C. C.
D. D.
9. The selling price of an apartment is directly 13. Maria downloaded to her music library a total
proportional its area. If an apartment of of 350 pop and rock songs. If the ratio of pop
127 sqm is sold for $168,275, what would be to rock song is 3 to 11. How many rock songs
the price of a 156 sqm apartment? are there in Maria’s library?
A. 237,900$ A. 75
B. 208,500$ B. 125
C. 136,993$ C. 175
D. 206,700$ D. 275
A. 2.5
B. 3.5
C. 4.5
D. 5.5
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15. A craftsman is looking for two kinds of paint 18. The ministry of finance conducted a survey
from a wholesaler. The first kind a is to determine the average income rate in the
packaged in 10 kg jars, the second b in 25 kg industry of banking in a given country. So, a
jars. The 10 kg jar costs $45 and the 25 kg meeting was held in the presence of 150 bank
one costs 120$. The load must not exceed 250 managers to ask them about their annual
kg and the total sum must be at least 900$ in income. Which conclusion can be drawn
order to get a discount. Which system of about the survey’s reliability?
inequalities verifies the given information?
A. The survey is reliable because it involves
10𝑎 25𝑏 250 people from the banking industry.
A.
45𝑎 120𝑏 900 B. The survey is unreliable because the
10𝑎 25𝑏 250 sample is too small.
B. C. The survey is unreliable because the
45𝑎 120𝑏 900
sample does not cover employees of
10𝑎 25𝑏 250
C. different positions.
45𝑎 120𝑏 900 D. The survey is reliable since it was made
10𝑎 25𝑏 250 by the ministry of finance.
D.
45𝑎 120𝑏 900
Questions 19 and 20 refer to the following
16. Brad got an average of 76 on his last three information.
math tests. What grade should he get on the
fourth test to obtain an average of 80? The bar graph below shows the age distribution
of the employees in a multi-branched bank.
A. 88
B. 90
C. 92
D. 94
A. 11694$
B. 14010$
C. 11102$
D. 12775$
19. If 481 employees are aged between 30 and
40, what is the total number of employees in
this company?
A. 1150
B. I200
C. 1550
D. 1300
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20. In which interval does the median age lie? 23. A secretary types on her computer keyboard
at an average speed of 1.75 words per second.
A. [20;30[ Her manager asked her to type a document
B. [30;40[ containing 16 pages with an average of 525
C. [40;50[ words per page. How long will she be
D. [50;60[ actively typing this document?
A. 1 hour, 10 minutes
2 1
𝑥 𝑦 7 B. 1 hour, 20minutes
5 3 C. 2 hours, 5 minutes
𝑚 5 D. 4 hours, 5 minutes
𝑥 𝑦 3
10 6
A. -2
B. 10
C. 6
D. -10
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
A. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 1 𝑥 2
B. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 1 𝑥 2
C. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 1 𝑥 2
D. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 2 𝑥 1
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28. A gaming website charges its client by
number of games downloaded g. If the total
fees f of a gamer are given by the equation
f = 7g+88, what is the best interpretation of
the term 88?
3𝑥 2 𝑥 3 0
A.
B.
C.
D.
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3𝑦 2 4 2𝑦 11 3 2 3𝑦 35. The function g is defined by g(x) = ax2-2x-5
3 5 and g (-1) = 1. What is the value of g (2)?
32. A multiple choice test contains 50 questions. 36. What is the remainder of the division of
A correct answer is worth 3 points and an 𝑘 𝑥 3𝑥 8𝑥 2𝑥 7 by x+2?
incorrect answer is worth -2 points. If a
student receives 75 on the test, how many
questions did he answer correctly?
𝑥 2𝑚𝑥 9
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Reference Sheet
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EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculators are not required, II – Calculator are required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculators are allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- A formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Section I
Calculators are not
required
(30 minutes)
1. 4. If 𝑝 𝑥 𝑥 7𝑥 5 and
People who own a smartphone 𝑞 𝑥 3𝑥 7𝑥 2𝑥 5, which of
worldwide the following expressions is equal to the
difference 𝑝 𝑥 – 𝑞 𝑥 ?
Year Number of
People A. 4𝑥 9𝑥 10
(in billions) B. 3𝑥 6𝑥 5𝑥
2016 2.3 C. 3𝑥 8𝑥 9𝑥 10
2017 2.6 D. 3𝑥 8𝑥 9𝑥 10
2018 2.9
5.
2019 3.2
2020 3.5
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6. 8. 3𝑦 12 3𝑦
𝑦 𝑎 𝑥 1
𝑦 𝑎 𝑥 1
In the system of equations above, a is a
constant and (x, y) is a solution, where
x = 3. What is the value of a ?
A. -4
B. 0
C. 2
D. 4
9. If 𝑎 is a solution of the equation
|2𝑥 4| 5, what is the distance
between 𝑎 and the point of coordinate 2
The graph shown above is that of a linear on the number line?
function 𝑓whose expression is given by A. 0.5
𝑓 𝑥 𝑐𝑥 𝑑, where 𝑐 and 𝑑 are B. 2.5
constants. Which of the following must C. 4.5
be true about c and d? D. 5
A. c=d 10. 𝑎𝑥 𝑦 𝑐
B. c>d
C. c<d 2𝑥 4𝑦 5
D. c=0 The system of equations above has
7. Ryan wants to calculate the amount of infinitely many solutions. If a and c are
time he spends on social media which, constants, what is the value of c?
for him, includes only Instagram and A.
Facebook. To do this he uses a formula
T = aI + bF, where I is the number of B.
hours he spends on Instagram every day, C.
F is the number of hours he spends on
Facebook every day, and T is the total D.
number of hours he spends on social
11.
media every week. If he spends the same
amount of time on Instagram every day 𝑥 -3 -1 0 2 4 5 8
and the same amount of time on 𝑓 𝑥 2 1 4 7 -3 9 -5
Facebook every day, which of the 𝑔 𝑥 -7 8 -3 20 0 10 5
following could be the value of a + b?
The table above shows some values of the
A. 7 two functions 𝑓 and 𝑔. For what value of
B. 14 𝑥 is 𝑔 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥?
C.
A. -3
D. B. 0
C. 4
D. 8
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12. Black holes are massive objects in the 14.
universe. The Schwarzschild Radius of a
black hole is the maximum distance at
which an object can escape the
gravitational pull of the black hole. It is
given by 𝑅 , R is the
Schwarzschild Radius, G is called the
gravitational constant, M is the mass of
the black hole, and c is the speed of light
in vacuum. What is c in terms of G, M,
and R?
A. 𝑐
B. 𝑐 √2𝐺𝑀𝑅
C. 𝑐
D. 𝑐
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15. SPR (Student Produced Responses)
16. 13𝑥 7𝑦 12
7𝑥 13𝑦 6
Based on the system of equations above,
what is the value of 4𝑥 4𝑦?
17. If √2 8, what is the value of √3 ?
18. What is the solution of the equation
𝑥 2 𝑥 1 3 𝑥 1
3 𝑥 1 𝑥 24 ?
19. If 𝑎𝑥 𝑏 2𝑥 1 𝑐𝑥 1 for all
values of 𝑥, what is the value of ?
In the given figure, A is the center of the 20. If x and y are positive measures of acute
circle. C, D, E, and F are points on the angles, and sin 𝑥 20 cos 𝑦
circle. If segments AE and EF have the 12 , what is a possible value of x + y?
same length, what is the measure of (Disregard the degree sign when gridding
in your answer).
angle 𝐶𝐴𝐷 ?
A. 15o
B. 25o
C. 30o
D. 60o
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Section II
Calculators are required
(60 minutes)
1. If 4𝑡 10 11𝑎, and a = -2, what is the 4. In a certain board game, a player can
value of 10𝑡 10? make only horizontal and vertical moves
with his or her piece on condition that the
A. -40
total number of moves does not exceed 40
B. -8
moves out of which at least 10 are
C. -3
horizontal. Every horizontal move costs 5
D. 1
points and every vertical move costs 3
2. Vanessa’s company has a bonus policy. points, and a player Sarah has only 800
At the end of each month, based on his or points left. If h is the number of
her performance, every employee gets horizontal moves that Sarah can make,
effort points. At the end of each year, and v is the number of vertical moves
each employee gets paid a fixed bonus Sarah can make, which of the following
amount of 400$ and an additional bonus systems of inequalities best represents the
of 50$ for each effort point earned by the situation?
employee. At the end of the year 2019,
A. ℎ 𝑣 40
Vanessa got a bonus of 1000$. How
many effort points had she earned during ℎ 10
the year 2019? 5ℎ 3𝑣 800
A. 2
B. 2.375 B. ℎ 𝑣 40
C. 12 ℎ 10
D. 200 ℎ 𝑣
800
3. The straight line m has an equation 5 3
𝑦 3𝑥. The point A of coordinates (1,3)
C. ℎ 𝑣 40
is on m. The line p is perpendicular to
m at point A. Which of the following ℎ 10
points is on p? 5ℎ 3𝑣 800
A. (3, 9)
D. ℎ 𝑣 40
B. (5, ) ℎ 10
C. (3, 0)
D. (0, 0) ℎ 𝑣
800
5 3
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5. A company decides to let its employees 8. The graph d of a linear function f has a
work from home. The employer gathers negative slope. Which of the following
the workers and wants to distribute the may be true about the graph n of a linear
work documents among the workers so function g of slope 12?
they can take them home. When he gives I. n is perpendicular to d.
2 documents to each employee, 20 are left II. n is parallel to d.
over. Instead, he decides to take one III. n passes through the origin (0, 0)
himself and give 3 to each employee.
This time 9 are left over. What is the A. Only I
number of documents? B. Only II
C. I and III
A. 44 D. II and III
B. 11
C. 10 9.
D. 40
6. If 2𝑧 7 𝑧 1 1 and 𝑧 is an integer,
what is the least possible value of 𝑧?
A. -2
B. 0
C. 2
D. 4
7. Due to the large demand on hand
sanitizers, a small shop owner decided to
increase the price of hand sanitizer by a
fixed amount every day. If the price P (in
dollars) of the hand sanitizer can be
modeled by the equation: P = 3.5 D + 6,
where D is the number of days after the
shop owner took the decision, which of
the following is the best interpretation of
The given graph show the speeds v in
the number 6 in the expression?
meters per second (m/s) of Sam and
A. The increase in the price of the Daniel, as they do their morning jogs, as
sanitizer per day. a function of time t in seconds (s). The
B. The change in the price of sanitizer difference in the speeds of the two boys is
every day. how much less at t = 0.2s than it was
C. The price of the sanitizer after the initially?
shop owner stops increasing the
A. 0 seconds
price.
B. 0.3 seconds
D. The price of the sanitizer before the
C. 0.4 seconds
large demand.
D. 0.6 seconds
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10. If the average (arithmetic mean) of three 14. The graph of the function h in the
numbers a, b, and c is 10, what is the xy-plane contains the point 2, 5 and has
average of a and b in terms of c? a y-intercept of -7 . The function g is
A. 5 0.5𝑐 defined by 𝑔 𝑥 3 2ℎ 𝑥 . Which of
the following points lie on the graph of g?
B. 15 𝑐
C. 30 0.5𝑐 A. (0, -7
D. 15 0.5𝑐 B. 2, 17
11. The solution set of the equation C. 0, 17
D. -7, 3
√2𝑥 1 𝑥 1 is:
A. 0, 1, 4
B. 1, 4
C. 4
D. 0
12. In a certain village, the number of people
doubles every three months. If there were
120 people in the village in March, which
of the following equations should be
solved to find when the population
reaches 1500 assuming no deaths occur?
(m represents the number of months)
A. 120 2 1500
B. 120 2 1500
C. 2 120 1500
D. 1500 2 120
13. John owns a drone that has a radio range
of 55 meters, that is the owner can control
it only if the drone is within 55 meters
from him. As John launches the drone,
the drone flies off a distance D, measured
in meters, given by the expression
𝐷 4𝑡 20t, where t is the time in
seconds after the drone is launched.
Assuming John stays where he is, at least
how many seconds after being launched,
does the drone get out of range?
A. 0 seconds
B. 1 second
C. 2 seconds
D. 3 seconds
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Questions 15 to 17 refer to the 17. If 15% of the tests performed in each age
following information. group to identify the people who were
infected gave wrong results, which of the
Number of Covid-19 cases according
following gives the closest estimate to the
to age
number cases in the age range 20 to 30
The histogram shown summarizes the who are actually healthy (rounded to the
number of people who got infected by the nearest whole number)?
Covid-19 virus according to their age in A. 431
Lebanon. The survey was done over A. 1680
11,200 people. B. 2440
C. 9520
18.
46 55 60 65 71 71 76 80 86
88 89 90 92 95 98 100 100 100
The table above shows the scores of 18
students on an online history exam. Due
to technical issues, the score of the
15. Based on the information shown in the 19th student was not added to the list. The
graph, which of the following is the most professor adds the score and finds out that
likely median age of those infected by the doing so increases the median score.
virus? Which of the following is the most likely
score of the 19th student?
A. 23
B. 31 A. 74
C. 56 B. 86
D. 68 C. 87
D. 88
16. Which of the following is closest to the
ratio of the number of infected people
19. In a certain chip manufacturing company,
below the age of 10 to those above the age
there are three operating machines A, B,
of 80?
and C. Every day, Machine A produces
A. 30% more chips than machine B, and
machine B produces twice as many chips
B. as machine C. If on any particular day
C. machine A produces x chips, what is the
total number of chips produced by
D. machines A, B, and C combined on that
day in terms of x?
A. 𝑥 1.3𝑥 2.6𝑥
B. 𝑥 0.3𝑥 0.6𝑥
C. 𝑥
. .
D. 𝑥
. .
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Questions 20 to 22 refer to the following 23.
information
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24. 26. 15, 5,10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 40, 31, x
If the range of the list above is 29, which
of the following can be the value of x?
(34,2)
I. 2
II. 34
A. Only I
B. Only II
C. Both I and II
The graph above shows the number of D. Neither I nor II
action movies made each year from 2011
to 2020. The greatest increase in the 27.
number of action movies took place
between which two of the following
years?
A. 2011 and 2012
B. 2012 and 2013
C. 2017 and 2018
D. 2019 and 2020
25. A certain pharmaceutical company wants
to test the efficiency of a vaccine that it
recently developed against a certain
virus. For this purpose, they administer
the vaccine to 10 people from each
neighborhood where the virus had been The graph above shows the sales in
detected. They do this for 40 dollars of the local mall at different
neighborhoods where the virus was temperatures in degrees Celsius on a
detected, and discover that among the certain day. Which of the following is
400 subjects, only 15 got sick when closest to the equation of the line of best
exposed to the virus after receiving the fit?
vaccine. Which of the following
statements can be true? A. 𝑦 1.1𝑥 14
B. 𝑦 1.1𝑥
A. If the entire country is vaccinated, C. 𝑦 1.1𝑥 12
only 3.75% are expected to get sick. D. 𝑦 1.8𝑥 14
B. The vaccine is effective against the
virus.
C. The sample was not chosen randomly
and so it calls into question the results
obtained.
D. The sample size was too large.
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28. An athlete runs every morning for 2 hours 30.
straight. On each day, as he progresses,
he gets tired and starts slowing down little
by little. Which of the following graphs
best depicts the distance d covered by the
athlete starting from home during the
2 hours he runs every morning as a
function of time t?
A.
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33. If 𝑓 𝑥 2 𝑥 𝑥 4 and 37.
𝑔 𝑥 𝑓 𝑥 10 are functions whose
graphs are parabolas in an xy-plane, what
is the y-coordinate of the vertex of the
parabola represented by 𝑔?
34. 𝑥 2
What is the positive solution of the
In the given figure, ABC is a triangle
equation given above?
right at B, segment ED is parallel to AB,
35. Distance covered by data as it is BC = 24, and AC = 26. If ED = 8, what is
transferred between different parts of a the length of 𝐸𝐶 ?
large computer is measured in light-
nanoseconds (lns). 1 light-nanosecond is 38. In the year 1990, 12000 tourists visited
equivalent to 29.9cm. If a certain data is country X. Due to bad weather
transferred at the rate of 19 centimeters conditions, the number of tourists visiting
every second, what disance, in lns, does country X started decreasing by 10% per
the data cover in 3 seconds? (Round your year. How many more tourists visited
answer to the nearest tenths). country X in the year 1993 than the year
2000? (Give the answer to the nearest
36. whole number).
Smart Laptops Tablets Total
phones
Elementary 150 230 120 500
Intermediate 250 100 80 430
Secondary 300 220 100 620
Total 700 550 300 1550
A school asks each of its 1550 students
whether they use a smartphone, a laptop,
or a tablet during online learning. The
table above summarizes the results. If a
student is selected at random, what is the
probability that he or she doesn’t use a
tablet knowing that he or she is not in the
secondary section? (Round your answer
to the nearest tenth).
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EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
1. Ibrahim is 𝑥 years old and Jamil is seven 5. Which of the line segments in the figure
years younger. In five years, how old will below has the largest slope?
Jamil be?
𝑥 2
𝑥 2
2𝑥 2
𝑥 5
1,0
0, 1 f
1,2 j
0,1 h
i
3. If a salesperson receives a base pay of
800 EGP per month and a 5% 6. If 𝑥 𝑦 𝑎 𝑏 , 𝑎𝑥 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑏 ,
commission on sales, what is the equation then 𝑥
relating sales 𝑎 and the monthly
income 𝑏 for this person? 𝑎 𝑏
–𝑎 𝑏
𝑏 800𝑎 0.05 𝑏
𝑏 0.05𝑎 800 𝑎
𝑎 800𝑏 0.05
𝑎 0.05𝑏 800
4. If 𝑥 2 𝑦 3 0, then which of 𝑥
and 𝑦 could verify the inequality?
𝑥 3;𝑦 4
𝑥 1;𝑦 2
𝑥 1;𝑦 4
𝑥 2;𝑦 0
6
-2
2
8
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8. If 𝑦 , 𝑥 2 , then 𝑦 𝑥 11. If 𝑥 approaches positive infinity, then
𝑓 𝑥 will approach
𝑚 for 𝑚
0
-2 1
-1 5.5
1 ∞
2
12. In planning maintenance for a city’s
4𝑥 16𝑥 𝑦 16𝑥𝑦 infrastructure, a civil engineer estimates
that, starting from the present, the
9. Which of the following is equivalent to population of the city will decrease by
the expression shown above? 15% every 25 years. If the present
population of the city is 40,000, which of
𝑥 2𝑥 2𝑦 the following expressions represents the
𝑥 2𝑥 2𝑦 engineer’s estimate of the population of
𝑥 2𝑥 4𝑦 the city t years from now?
𝑥 4𝑥 4𝑦
40,000 0.15
Questions 10 and 11 refer to the following 40,000 0.85
information.
40,000 0.85
0.85 40,000
6,0
2,4
8,4
6,4
0
1.5
3
4.5
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14. In the right triangle below, what is the
length of BC?
𝑥 2𝑥 2𝑥 4 0
15. The angles shown above are acute and
18. For what real value of 𝑥 is the equation
sin 𝑎° cos 𝑏 ° . If 𝑎 2𝑚 11 and
above true?
𝑏 5𝑚 10, what is the value of 𝑚? (Grid in)
(the figure is not drawn to scale)
19. For what value of 𝑏 does the equation
𝑏𝑎 2𝑎 3 0 have a single real
13 solution for 𝑎?
7 (Grid in)
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Section II
Calculator is required
(60 minutes)
𝑦 10𝑥 2000
𝑦 5𝑥
-6
9
1
0
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6. The total revenue of a magic show is
16,360 EGP. If each adult ticket to attend
the show cost 12 EGP and each children
A
ticket cost 2 EGP, then what is the
number of tickets of each type sold if
3,480 tickets in all were sold?
section
930 adult tickets and 2,550 children
B
tickets
940 adult tickets and 2,540 children
tickets
955 adult tickets and 2,525 children
C
tickets
960 adult tickets and 2,520 children
tickets
0 2 4 6 8 10
scores
Questions 7 and 8 refer to the following
information.
9. The dot plots above show the scores on a
The expression 1.6 𝑦 10.8 models the common quiz for the three sections A, B,
number of eligible voters in millions in a and C. Knowing that the average score is
certain country from 1990 to 2015 where the same for the three sections, which of
𝑦 1 represents the number of years since the following correctly compares the
standard deviation (𝑥 of the scores in
1990.
each of the three sections?
7. Find the approximate number of eligible 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥
voters in millions in 1999. 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥
𝑥 𝑥 𝑥
27
𝑥 𝑥 𝑥
25
29 Questions 10, 11, and 12 refer to the
3209 following information.
8. Assume that the model continues to hold
10
for future years, what is the difference
Number of students
8
between the eligible voters in millions in
6
2020 and 2017? 4
2
5.2 0
4.8 50 60 70 80 90
6.4 Scores
2.4
The above bar chart shows the scores of a
philosophy test over 100.
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10. What is the median score?
8
60
70
80
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Questions 16, 17, and 18 refer to the 18. For how many weeks was the number of
following information. slices sold smaller than the amount
predicted by the line of best fit?
12
9
15
16
A kiosk sells slices of pizza and sets the price In a farm, there are 30 rabbits of two sizes
per slice each week. The scatterplot above “small and big” and three colors “white,
shows the price and the number of slices sold brown, and gray” as shown in the table
over 25 weeks, along with the line of best fit below.
and its equation.
Color White Brown Gray
16. How many slices does the kiosk expect to Size
sell in a week when the price of a slice is Small 4 4 6
4 EGP? Big 10 2 4
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21. In a bag, there are 12 identical tokens 24. Which of the following is a solution for
numbered from 1 to 12. A token is drawn the equation 2𝑥 7|𝑥| 5 0 ?
at random. What is the probability to
obtain an even multiple of 3? 0
-1
2
-3
I. √2𝑥 1 𝑥
22. A bank has opened a new branch and, as II. |𝑥 1| 3
part of a promotion, the bank branch is III. 𝑥 1 3 0
offering 2,000$ certificates of deposit at IV. √2𝑥 1 𝑥
an interest rate of 6% per year,
compounded semi-annually. The bank is I only
selling certificates with terms of 1, 2, 3 or IV only
4 years. Which of the following functions I, II, and III
gives the total amount, 𝐴, in dollars, a III and IV
customer will receive when a certificate
with a term of 𝑘 years is finally paid?
𝐴 2000 1 0.03𝑘
𝐴 2000 1 0.06𝑘
𝐴 2000 1.06
𝐴 2000 1.03
𝑎 𝑎
2 2 1
3 3
𝑎 𝑎 4
𝑎 𝑎 2
𝑎 4 26. The curve P above represents function
𝑓 defined by 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑎𝑥
𝑎 4
𝑏.What are the values of the real numbers
𝑎 and 𝑏?
𝑎 1 ;𝑏 3
𝑎 3 ;𝑏 1
𝑎 1.5 ; 𝑏 1
𝑎 2.5 ; 𝑏 0.5
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27. Consider the function 𝑓 defined by 31. Two numbers are in ratio 3:5. If 9 is
𝑓 𝑥 2 𝑥 3 𝑥 2 . What is the subtracted from each, the new numbers
ordinate of the vertex of function 𝑓? are in the ratio 12:23. What is the biggest
number?
2
-4.5
2.5
-12.5
𝑖
𝑖 34. A sum of 7,200 $ is to be divided equally
among many people. If five people were
𝑖 excluded, each part would increase by
𝑖 20$. What is the number of people?
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35. The original price of an article is 30,000
EGP and its discount price is 27,600
EGP. What is the discount percent?
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Reference Sheet
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EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
1. If 2𝑥 3𝑦 14 and 𝑥 2𝑦 5. If √3 , what is the value of
8, what is the value of 𝑥 𝑦?
6𝑥?
A. 2
A. 3√3
B. 0
C. 2 B. √3 3
D. 6 C. √3 3
2. Which of the following is equivalent D. √3 3
to 4𝑎 9 2𝑎 3 𝑎 1
3 2𝑎 3 ? Questions 6 and 7 refer to the graph below.
A. 3𝑎 5 2𝑎 3
B. 2 3𝑎 5 2𝑎 3
C. 2𝑎 3 𝑎 5
D. 2𝑎 3 3𝑎 7
3. For 𝑖 √ 1 , which of the following
is equivalent to ?
A.
B.
C.
D.
6. What is the slope of the line shown in
4. The “Bond Number” 𝐵 or “Eötvös the graph?
Number” is a formula used in fluid
dynamics that shows the importance A.
of gravitational forces compared to B.
surface tension forces and is used to
describe the shape of a droplet C.
moving in a surrounding fluid. To D. 2
find the bond number we apply the
7. What is the equation of the line
formula 𝐵 where 𝜌 passing through 𝐴 1, 0.5 and
represents the density of the liquid, 𝑔 perpendicular to the graphed line?
represents the acceleration due to
gravity, 𝐷 is the diameter of the A. 𝑦 𝑥
droplet, and 𝜎 is the surface B. 𝑦 2𝑥
temperature. What is 𝐷 in terms of
C. 𝑦 𝑥
𝐵 , 𝜌, 𝑔, and 𝜎?
D. 𝑦 𝑥
A. 𝐷
B. 𝐷
C. 𝐷
D. 𝐷
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8. Using the figure below, what is the 12. Given three consecutive even
circumference of the circle with integers. If the sum of the first and
center 𝐸 and passing through point three times the third is equal to 20,
𝐹? what is the sum of the three integers?
A. 14
B. 12
C. 8
D. 6
13. What is the range of the function
𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 4𝑥 3 ?
A. 1, ∞
B. 1, ∞
C. 7, ∞
A. 𝜋√2
D. 7, ∞
B. 2𝜋√2
C. 4𝜋√2 14. In the figure below, 𝐴𝐵 7 𝑐𝑚,
√
D. 4√2 𝐷𝐶 13 𝑐𝑚 and tan 𝐶 . What
9. If , which of the following is the dimension of segment 𝐵𝐶? (The
figure is not drawn to scale.)
is the greatest value for 𝑥?
A. 2
B. 1
C. 0
D. 1
10. If 9 3 , what is the value of
2𝑥 5?
A. 5
B. 0 A. 5 𝑐𝑚
C. 5 B. 8 𝑐𝑚
D. 10 C. 10 𝑐𝑚
D. 12 𝑐𝑚
11. If the sum of half a number and 3 is
smaller than twice the same number 15. If 𝑥𝑦 is a positive integer and 𝑥𝑧 is a
added to 3, which of the following negative integer, which of the
could be the number? following is true?
A. 1 I. 𝑦𝑧 is always positive.
B. 0 II. 𝑥𝑦 𝑥𝑧 is always positive.
C. 0.5
III. 𝑥𝑦𝑧 is always negative.
D. 2
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I, II, and III
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16. Given 𝑓 𝑥 2𝑥 3𝑥 1 and
𝑔 𝑥 3𝑥 5, what is the value of
𝑓∘𝑔 2 ? (grid-in)
17. Joanne is a saleswoman in a TV store.
Her salary is 1,300 Egyptian pounds
per month, in addition to 10 Egyptian
pounds for each TV she sells if the
quantity sold is less than or equal to
10 TVs per month. If she sells more
than 10 TVs in one month, she will
get an extra bonus of 10% of her
initial salary. Last November, she
sold 12 TVs. What was her salary at
the end of the month? (grid-in)
18. The function ℎ 𝑥 𝑥 𝑎𝑥 3
has zeros at 𝑥 3 and 𝑥 1. What
is the value of 𝑎? (grid-in)
19. Using the figure below, what is the
value of 𝑥? (grid-in)
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Section II
Calculator is required
(55 minutes)
1. Which of the following is a point of Questions 4, 5, and 6 refer to the
intersection between the line with information below.
equation 𝑦 3𝑥 9 and the
parabola with the equation
𝑦 2𝑥 3𝑥 1 ?
A. 2, 3
B. 2, 15
C. 2, 15
D. 2, 2
2. In his SAT Math practice test, Hamad
solved 80% of the first section
correctly, which included 20
questions. In the second section that Adam and his fiancée worked as freelance
included 38 questions, % of the graphic designers all year long during 2019
questions were solved correctly. How to save money for their wedding and to buy
many questions were correct in furniture for their home. Their mixed salary
Hamad’s test? each month, in thousands of dollars, is
shown in the graph above.
A. 6 questions
B. 41 questions 4. During September, Adam worked 15
C. 42 questions hours per day, while his fiancée
D. 58 questions worked 11 hours per day. Knowing
that each one of them took 4 days off
2𝑥 5𝑦 39
3. that month, and his fiancée was
3𝑥 4𝑦 45 getting paid $10.7 per hour, how
From the system of equations above, much was Adam approximately
what is the value of 2𝑥 7𝑦 ? getting paid per hour?
A. 57 A. $16.6
B. 15 B. $17.8
C. 39 C. $20.4
D. 69 D. $36.1
5. In which quarter of the year did they
get the smallest income?
A. 1st quarter
B. 2nd quarter
C. 3rd quarter
D. 4th quarter
6. What is the percentage of May’s
income out of their total annual
income?
A. 3.41%
B. 5.27%
C. 9.52%
D. 10.53%
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7. A company lost 20% of their stock 10. What is the 𝑥-intercept of the line
the first year, then 26% the second passing through points 3, 5 and
year. In the third year, their stock 4, 2 ?
increased by 30%. Which of the
A. 7
following statements is true?
B.
A. The company’s stock increased
by 23.04% in comparison with C.
the price of the stock before the D. 26
start of the loss. 11. If 𝑓 𝑥 and
B. The company’s stock decreased
by 23.04% in comparison with 𝑔 𝑥 𝑥 7 , what is the value
the price of the stock before the of 𝑓 𝑔 3 𝑓 2 ?
start of the loss.
C. The company’s stock decreased A.
by 76.96% in comparison with B.
the price of the stock before the
start of the loss. C.
D. The company’s stock increased D.
by 76.96% in comparison with
the price of the stock before the 12. What is the product of the solutions of
start of the loss. 2𝑥 4𝑥 6?
8. What is the sum of the solutions of A. 3𝑖
𝑎 1 𝑎 8𝑎 15 0? B. 0
C. 3𝑖
A. 8 D. 3
B. 7
C. 7 13. Petra registered in an online magazine
D. 8 for a monthly fee of $15. However, to
read premium articles, she has to pay
9. Tanta University is an Egyptian an extra charge of $0.3 per article.
university located in Tanta, Egypt. Which of the following represents the
Since 1962, the administration was total amount Petra is going to pay per
developed and was able to create month if she reads 𝑥 premium
more than 10 faculties. Statistics articles?
show, in an old release, that 3,636
students attend the Faculty of A. 15𝑥 0.3
Medicine, and the ratio of female B. 15 0.3𝑥
students to male students is 11:25. C. 15 30 0.3𝑥
How many male students are D. 15 30𝑥 0.3
attending the faculty?
A. 2,544
B. 2,525
C. 2,000
D. 1,604
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14. What is the area of the shaded region Questions 17, 18, and 19 refer to the
in the figure below? information below.
Gold is one of the most important items in the
world. Its price increases and decreases every
day. The average closing price for the past 8
years is shown in the table below.
Year Average Closing Price $
2020 1,771.9
2019 1,393.34
2018 1,268.93
2017 1,251.92
2016 1,158.86
2015 1,266.06
A. 15 square units 2014 1,409.51
B. 19 square units 2013 1,668.86
C. 24 square units 17. What is the mean of the average
D. 27 square units closing price of the last 5 years
15. 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is a parallelogram such that according to the given table?
𝐴 1, 2 , 𝐵 4, 4 , 𝐶 6, 1 , and A. 1,137.2
𝐷 3, 1 . What are the coordinates B. 1,351.82
of 𝐸, the center of the parallelogram? C. 1,368.99
A. 𝐸 1.5, 3.5 D. 1,622.18
B. 𝐸 4, 1.5 18. Which of the following statements is
C. 𝐸 1.5, 4 true when comparing the annual
D. 𝐸 3.5, 1.5 percentage change from 2018 to
16. What is the inverse function of 2020?
𝑓 𝑥 ? A. It increased by 27.17%.
B. It decreased by 27.17%.
A. 𝑓 𝑥 C. It decreased by 39.64%.
B. 𝑓 𝑥 2 D. It increased by 39.64%.
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20. Raymond went to the bookstore and 24. Acceleration is a vector quantity that
bought 8 greeting cards to send them represents the rate of change of
to his friends. However, he decided to velocity over time. In physics, when
send cards to only 5 of his friends. In the velocity of an object is changing,
how many ways can this be done? it means the object is either
accelerating or decelerating. The
A. 40
formula used to find the velocity 𝑣⃗ of
B. 56 ∆⃗
C. 960 an object is 𝑣⃗ and that of the
∆
D. 6,720 acceleration is 𝑎⃗
∆⃗
, where ∆𝑟⃗ is
∆
21. In 2011, the population in Cairo was the displacement vector (change in
9.12 million. Considering the position), ∆𝑣⃗ is the change in
population was increasing by 1% velocity vector, and ∆𝑡 is the change
each year, what could be the in time of the object.
approximate population in Cairo in
2022? Which of the following statements is
true regarding the given formula?
A. 10.074154 million
B. 10.123200 million I. If ∆𝑟⃗ increases and ∆𝑡
C. 10.174896 million decreases, the acceleration
D. 10.276645 million will increase.
II. If ∆𝑟⃗ decreases and ∆𝑡
22. What are the values of 𝑎 and 𝑏 if increases, the acceleration
𝑓 𝑥 2𝑎 3 𝑥 𝑏𝑥 1 is will increase.
equivalent to 𝑔 𝑥 4𝑎 3 𝑥 III. If ∆𝑟⃗ decreases and ∆𝑡
3 𝑏 𝑥 1? increases, the acceleration
A. 𝑎 3 and 𝑏 1.5 will decrease.
B. 𝑎 3 and 𝑏 1.5 A. I only
C. 𝑎 3 and 𝑏 1.5 B. II only
D. 𝑎 3 and 𝑏 1.5 C. I and II
23. If 4𝑥 14𝑦 7 , what is the value D. I and III
of 𝑥 𝑦?
25. 3 2𝑥 𝑦 14
A. Which point could be the solution for
the inequality above?
B.
A. 0, 3
C. B. 4, 8
D. C. 3, 4
D. 4, 12
26. For what values of 𝑥 is
𝑓 𝑥 undefined?
A. 𝑥 2.5 and 𝑥 3
B. 𝑥 2.5 and 𝑥 3
C. 𝑥 2.5 and 𝑥 3
D. 𝑥 2.5 and 𝑥 3
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27. If , which of the following 28. What was the seasonal ticket price for
a male person in 2018? How much
is correct?
did it decrease or increase in 2019?
A. 𝑎 𝑏 A. It costed $70 in 2018, and it
B. 𝑎 𝑏 decreased by $4 the next year.
B. It costed $74 in 2018, and it
C. 2𝑎 𝑏
increased by $4 the next year.
D. 𝑎 2𝑏 C. It costed $70 in 2018, and it
increased by $4 the next year.
Questions 28, 29, and 30 refer to the D. It costed $74 in 2018, and it
information below. decreased by $4 the next year.
A football club published on its website the 29. Which of the following represents the
number of entrance tickets sold in 2018 and equation of the line describing the
in 2019. change of the number of seasonal
Average number of tickets sold for a female person to the
tickets sold at the Seasonal revenue obtained from the same
entrance door per tickets category?
game
Male Female Child Male Female A. 𝑦 𝑥 66355.7
2018 4521 1254 759 1122 780 B. 𝑦 𝑥 66355.7
2019 4668 1102 884 1088 794
C. 𝑦 𝑥 66355.7
D. 𝑦 𝑥 66355.7
Ticket revenue from
Seasonal
selling them at the 30. What is the average revenue ticket
ticket
entrance door per game from selling them at the entrance door
revenue ($)
($) per game in 2019?
Male Female Child Male Female
A. $13.16
2018 72336 16552.8 4402.2 78540 47970 B. $14.31
2019 79822.8 15428 4420 80512 47640
C. $14.98
D. $17.27
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31. If 𝑓 𝑥 4𝑥 8 𝑥 5 and by a computer engineer between years 2010
𝑔 𝑥 3𝑥 1, what is the value of and 2015.
𝑓 2 𝑔 1 ? (grid-in) 34. Based on the line of best fit shown as
32. The sum of twice a number 𝑥 and a dashed line, what is the average
eleven is equal to one third the yearly increase in the number of
difference of the same number and repaired laptops rounded to the
one. What is the value of 1 𝑥 ? nearest tenth? (grid-in)
(grid-in) 35. How many laptops were repaired
33. If 𝑦 varies directly as the cube of 2𝑥, between years 2012 and 2014?
and 𝑦 8 when 𝑥 2, what is 𝑦 (grid-in)
when 𝑥 is equal to 4 ? (grid-in) 36. Given that 3 11, what is the value
Questions 34 and 35 refer to the of 2 3 4 ? (grid-in)
information below.
37. If sin 𝑎 2 , what is the value
The scatterplot below shows how many of 9 sin 𝑎 3 cos 𝑎 ? (grid-in)
laptops for different companies were repaired
38. The density of a substance is equal to
the quotient of its mass and its
volume. What is the mass, in
kilograms, of a liquid whose density
is 14.2 𝑔/𝑐𝑚 if its volume is equal
to 6 𝐿? (1 𝑚𝐿 1 𝑐𝑚 (grid-in)
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Reference Sheet:
EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
Questions 1 and 2 refer to the following 4. In the xy-plane, the equation of the
information. line (d) passing through A(-1,4) and
perpendicular to line 3x-2y = 5 is:
For a point source, sound waves propagate in
concentric spheres, therefore the intensity of A. 𝑦 𝑥
the sound at a point A distant D from the
source is given by: 𝐼 where: B. 𝑦 𝑥
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10. A rental car company charges its
clients by the number of days d the
car is rented. If the bill b of a client is
given by the equation b = 5d+20,
what is the best interpretation of the
term 5?
A. The rental cost of the car per day
B. The fixed cost of renting a car, no
matter how many days it is rented
C. The average number of days the
car is rented
D. The fees of renting a car for 7 days
7. The graph above depicts a function The table below summarizes the grades out
f(x). How many solutions does the of 10 obtained by 4 players in a competition
equation f(x) = 0 admit? over a total of 5 rounds.
A. 1 Diego Mark Tyler Toni
B. 2 Round 1 7 3 8 10
C. 3 Round 2 5 10 7 4
D. 4 Round 3 8 9 6 9
8. Which of the following angles have Round 4 9 5 7 10
the same value of sin 32°? Round 5 4 8 8 7
Standard
A. Sin (-32°) 1.85 2.61 0.75 2.28
deviation
B. Sin 58°
C. Cos (-32°) 11. The winner is the player with the
D. Cos 58° highest average. Who won the
competition?
A. Diego
B. Toni
C. Tyler
D. Mark
12. Which player was the most consistent
in terms of his grades?
A. Mark
B. Diego
C. Toni
9. Knowing that lines (xy) and (rs) are D. Tyler
parallel, what is the type of triangle 13. What is the resulting coefficient of x
ABM? (Figure is not drawn to scale) when -2x+3 is multiplied by -3x-2?
A. Scalene A. -9
B. Isosceles B. -5
C. Equilateral C. 5
D. Right isosceles D. 6
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6𝑥 5𝑥 2
2𝑥 1
14. Which of the following is equivalent
to the above expression?
A. 3𝑥 4
B. 3𝑥 4
C. 3𝑥
D. 3𝑥 4
15. If 𝑚 and 𝑘 are positive numbers,
which of the following expressions is
equivalent to 16𝑘 𝑚 ?
A. 4𝑘 𝑚
B. 2𝑘
C. 4𝑘 𝑚
D. 2𝑘 𝑚
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Section II
Calculator is required
(55 minutes)
6 𝑥 1 4 3 5 4𝑥 Questions 4 and 5 refer to the following
0 information.
3 2
1. What is the value of x that satisfies the A survey is done on 80 families from two
equation? cities A and B, separated into groups based
A. on the number of cars they own. The results
are shown in the table below.
B.
Number of
C. There is no value of x for which City A City B
cars
the equation is true.
D. There are infinitely many values 1 25 20
of x for which the equation is 2 31 19
true. 3 14 23
2. If 𝑥 3 2 𝑥, what is the 4 8 12
highest value of 𝑥 4? 5 2 6
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7. A shop sells two sizes of doughnuts: 11. From 2020 to 2021, the amount in
mini and regular. Mini doughnuts Tom’s bank account decreased by
have a diameter of 1.8 inches while 11% to $49840. What was the initial
regular ones have a diameter of 3 amount in her bank account?
inches. Approximately, by what A. $54820
percentage is a regular normal B. $44358
doughnut larger (in area) than a mini C. $56000
doughnut? D. $45309
A. 67%
B. 67π% 4𝑥 1 9𝑥 0
C. 78%
D. 178% 12. What is the absolute value of the
difference between the two roots of
8. Line (A) passes through the the above equation?
points , 0 𝑎𝑛𝑑 0, . Which
A.
of the following lines will never
intersect with line (A)? B.
A. 𝑦 𝑥 1 C.
B. 𝑦 𝑥 1 D.
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14. If a secondary student is chosen 18. By what percentage should we raise
randomly, what is the probability that the price of a good to return to its
he favors Math or Science? initial price knowing that it was
subject to a 20% discount 2 weeks
A. ago?
B. A. 15%
C. B. 20%
C. 25%
D. D. 30%
15. Given a cone whose height is the 19. The general elections in a country
quadruple of its diameter. If the provided a parliament composed of
volume of the cone is 72π, what is the 35% deputies from the democratic
diameter of its base? party, 20% for the conservative
A. 4 party , 30% for the republican party
B. 5 and 27 members of the labor party.
C. 6 How many more democrats are there
D. 9 than conservatives?
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21. A painter paints walls at an average 24. A line, having a slope of - passes
rate of 1.2 walls per hour. He is asked
through the points A (2 ; α-3) and B
to paint a villa containing 18 rooms
(2α+1 ; -4). What is the value of α?
each containing 5.4 walls on average.
How long will he be actively painting A. -2
the villa? B. -2/3
C. 2/3
A. 2 days, 18 hours
D. 2
B. 3 days
C. 3 days, 9 hours Questions 25 and 26 refer to the following
D. 3 days, 18 hours information.
The height of a launched cannonball can be
described as a function of time according to
the following quadratic equation:
ℎ 𝑡 2𝑡 14𝑡 36
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28. The number of bees in a beehive rose 34. The concentration of solution in sugar
from 2400 to 2520 in a month. How is directly proportional to the mass of
many bees do we expect to have in the sugar dissolved in the solution. If the
next month knowing that the concentration of a solution is
population experiences the same 1.5mol/L when 54g are dissolved,
percent increase every month? how many grams are dissolved if the
concentration is 2.1mol/L?
A. 2600
B. 2640 35. In a right triangle, if tan 𝑥 , then
C. 2646
what is the value of cos 𝑥?
D. 2656
x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2
29. Which value of x could make the
inequality 𝑥 2 𝑥 5 true? -
p(x) 7 4 1 -2 -8
5
A. -12 q(x) -7 -5 -3 -1 1 3
B. -10
C. -8 36. The table above shows several values
D. -6 for the functions p(x) and q(x). What
30. Harvey wants to buy a new is the value of p(q(0))?
apartment. He estimates that he will 2𝑥 𝑦 3
need its area to be around 1400 square 37. Consider the system .
𝑦 𝑥 5
feet. But, the provider measures its For x = 2, what is the highest integer
units in square meters. If 1 meter is value of y?
nearly 3.28 feet, how many square
meters approximately will Harvey 38. Trevor has $600 to spend on
need? shopping, 25 percent of which he
spent to buy groceries. If he budgets
A. 427 30 percent of the remaining amount
B. 130 for clothes, allots $120 for cooking
C. 4592 utensils and spends the rest on
D. 15062 gaming accessories, what percentage
31. The mean of x,y,z and t is 11.5. The of the original $600 did he spend on
mean of x,y,z,t and q is 11.8. What is gaming accessories? (Input your
the value of q? answer without the % sign)
32. The function g is defined by
𝑔 𝑥 3𝑥 𝑘𝑥 8 and
𝑔 2 4. What is the value of
𝑔 3 ?
33. What is the remainder of the division
of 𝑃 𝑥 4𝑥 𝑥 8𝑥 6 by
𝑥 1?
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Reference Sheet:
12
January 2021
EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
5. A 100-page album costs twice as much
2x 4 x 1
1. If t 1 and 𝑡 3, what as a 50-page album. The cost of three
3 6 100-page albums and two 50-page
is the value of 𝑥 ? albums is $𝑡. How much does a 50-page
A. 27 album cost?
B. 1 A. 8𝑡
C. 11 B. 4𝑡
D. t
C.
4
2. Z Z ' a bi .
t
D.
In the equation above, 𝑎 and 𝑏 are real 8
numbers and 𝑖 is the imaginary unit
such that 𝑖 1. 6. An enterprise conducted a study on its
products and the results showed that
If 𝑍 3 2𝑖 and 𝑍 4 3𝑖 , what when the unit selling price (P) is raised,
is the value of 𝑍 𝑍 ? the number of units sold (U) went
A. 2𝑖 down.
B. 24 10𝑖 This result is modeled by the equation
C. 26 10𝑖 10P+2U=2500.
D. 1 5𝑖 Based on this model, the manager
decided to decrease the unit selling
3. Mathew paid X dollars for a play price from $50 to $45.
station that was only 30 dollars less
How many more items did he sell?
than one third of the original price.
A. 75
What was the original price in dollars?
B. 50
A. X 30 C. 25
B. X 60 D. 10
C. 3 X 90 2
7. 2 x y 2 x y
2 2
1
D. X 30
3 Which of the following is equivalent to
4. A truck contains 15 identical boxes the expression above?
that are either red or blue.
A. 16x y
4 2
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3a 11. Sam wants to rent a car. He receives
8. If c 7 , what is the value of ?
b the following offers.
A. Amount to be
Fixed
paid for each
7 amount to be
B. kilometer
3 paid
driven
C. 21 Offer A 65$ 0.50$
D. Offer B 60$ 0.52$
Offer C 55$ 0.54$
9. Which of the following is equivalent to Offer D 50$ 0.56$
f x 2 x2 12 x 8 ?
Which offer is the best if Sam wants to
2 x 6 28
2 travel 100 km?
A.
A. Offer A
2 x 3 10
2
B. B. Offer B
2 x 9 5
2
C. Offer C
C.
D. Offer D
4 x 3 5
2
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15. 18.
𝑥 𝑓 𝑥
1 𝑚
2 6
3 𝑛
The table above shows some values for
the function f.
If f is a linear function, what is the value
of 𝑚 𝑛?
19. P x 3a 6 x 2 4 2b x c 3
Knowing that 𝑥 5, use the figure
above to find the set of real numbers 𝑥 In the polynomial 𝑃 above, 𝑎, 𝑏 and 𝑐
if twice the area of triangle BME added are constant numbers.
to 2 times the area of the triangle MEA If 𝑃 is identically zero, what is the
is less than or equal to triple the area of value of 𝑎 𝑏 𝑐?
rectangle ABCD. (the figure is not
drawn to scale) 20. √𝑥 5𝑥 8 2
A. x < 4 What is the product of the two solutions
B. x ≤ 4 of the equation above?
C. x 0, 4
D. x > 4
82 x
16. If 3 x y 1 and y t 7 , what is
4
the value of 𝑡?
17.
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Section II
Calculator is required
(55 minutes)
6
March 2021
1. In 2017, country Y had 500 miles of 4.
paved roads. Starting in 2018, the
country has been building 6 miles of
new paved roads each year. At this rate,
if 𝑚 is the number of years after 2017,
which of the following functions 𝑓
gives the number of miles of paved
roads that will be in country Y
assuming that no paved roads go out of
service?
A. 𝑓 𝑚 6 2017𝑚
B. 𝑓 𝑚 2017 6𝑚 In the 𝑥𝑦-plane above, the equation of
C. 𝑓 𝑚 500 6𝑚 line L is 2 mx 2 y 12 0 , where 𝑚
D. 𝑓 𝑚 2018 6𝑚 is a constant.
2. What is the slope (gradient) of L?
4
A. 3
2
B. 3
8
C. 3
1
D. 2
The circular diagram above shows the 3
results of a survey made on the number 5. Jack has 𝑘 dollars. He spends of his
4
of books read by 200 pupils in a certain 1
school. money on a T-shirt and of what was
3
What is the number of pupils who read left on a sandwich. If this left him with
less than 3 books? 𝑡 dollars, which of the following is the
A. 68 value of 𝑘 in terms of 𝑡?
B. 116 A. 6𝑡
C. 38 B. 9𝑡
D. 76 C. 12𝑡
3. A machine finishes the paving of 600m D. 24𝑡
of a road in 1 hour. At the same steady
rate, how much time would take two
identical machines to finish paving
300m?
A. 15 minutes
B. 2 hours
C. 1 hour
D. 30 minutes
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6. The supply function of a product is 8.
given by 𝑓 𝑥 and the demand
function of the same product is given
by 𝑔 𝑥 1, where 𝑥 represents
the price in dollars of the product in
both functions. What is the market
equilibrium of this product given that
it is the point of intersection of the two
curves of the two functions?
A. 1.56
B. 1.79
C. 2.56
D. 2.79 The graph of y tx 2 5tx 6t is
7. Tina got on her exams the following shown in the 𝑥𝑦-plane above, where 𝑡
grades: is a constant. If the graph passes
Physics 75/100 with coefficient 2 through the point (1,10), which of the
following is the maximum value of 𝑦?
English 60/100 with coefficient 4
Chemistry 80/100 with coefficient 1 A. 2.5
Knowing that the coefficient of Math is B. 10
C. 11.75
5, what should her minimum grade in
D. 12.25
Math be to have at least an average of
80/100? 9. A study showed that the number of
users of a mobile application has been
A. 100
growing exponentially with the number
B. 85
of new members doubling every 3
C. 98
months. We know that the initial
D. She won’t be able to have at least
number of users when the study started
this average
was 100,000 users. The equation of the
growth is given by 100𝑒 𝛼∈ℝ ,
measured in thousands of users after 𝑡
months.
How many users will the application
have in 2 years?
A. 25,600 users
B. 25,600,000 users
C. 12,151 users
D. 12,151,041 users
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10. If the sum of their areas is 100 cm 2 ,
what is the length of [AB]?
A. 100 cm
B. 2 5 cm
C. 50 cm
D. 12 5 cm
A.
x 2 11 3x A. 25
B. 26
B.
x 2 x 7 C. 27
C.
x 2 11 3x D. 28
D.
x 2 x 7 15. If 𝑥 is different than -1, 0 and 1, which
of the following is equivalent to
12. x
?
1 1
x 1 1 x
1
A. x 1
2
x 1 x 1
B. 2x
2x
C. x 1
2
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16. 18.
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March 2021
20. 22. In 2007, a watch manufacturer found
that 2 out of every 30 watches produced
are defected.
If the manufacturer produces 2 million
watches in a year, which of the
following is closest to the estimated
number of non-defected watches?
A. 1,866,000
B. 1,867,000
1 C. 133,000
In the figure above, AE AB and
3 D. 134,000
1
AD AC . 23.
3
The area of the triangle ABC is how
many times the area of the trapezoid
EDCB?
9
A. 8
8
B. 9
C. 3
2
D. 3
21. A container is filled with 200 balls, 80
of them are yellow. After removing 𝑥
The graph above shows the test grades
yellow balls, 75% of the remaining
over 20 of 40 students.
balls in the container are not yellow.
Based on the bar graph above, what is
Which of the following is the value of
the average grade on the test?
𝑥?
A. 10
A. 20 B. 11.6
B. 30 C. 12.8
C. 40 D. 14.6
D. 50
24. For what value of 𝑥 , 4 x 2 is less
than 0?
A. -7
B. 1
C. 3
D. There is no such value of 𝑥
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25. Questions 27-28 refer to the following
Practice information.
No sports Total
any kind v v0
activity f '
of sports f
Under v
220 40 260 You are riding in a car at a velocity v0 , in
40
40 and meters per second, towards a loud block party.
100 180 280
older Because of this movement, the actual
Total 320 220 540
frequency of the sound waves emitted by the
The table above shows the distribution speakers, f , in hertz, is perceived by you to be
of age and sports activity for 540
a different frequency f ' , in hertz.
employees of a company.
The speaker’s sound waves travel at a velocity
If an employee aged under 40 is
v , in meters per second. This phenomenon is
selected at random, what is the
probability that he practices any kind of called the Doppler effect. The formula above
sports? shows the relationship between these variables.
2 27. Which of the following expresses the
A. 13 velocity of the car v0 in terms of the
11 other variables?
B. 27 f ' f
11 v0
A. vf
C. 16
11 ff'
B. v0 v
13 f'
D.
f
26. Ryan estimates that there are 𝑥 people C. v0 v
in a concert. f'
f ' f
Bella, who knows the actual number of D. v0 v
people who attended the concert, 𝑦 , f
notes that Ryan’s estimate is within 50 28. If the velocity of the car is 22 m/s, the
people of the actual number of people. velocity of the sound waves of the
Which of the following inequalities speaker is 340 m/s and you perceive the
represent the relationship between 𝑥 frequency of the speaker’s sound waves
and 𝑦? to be 500 Hz.
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29. The table below summarizes students' 31. A supermarket has three branches A, B
work placement after graduation, based and C in three different cities. The head
on the major. manager realized that, in average per
day, branch A has 20% more customers
Work
than branch B and branch B has 20%
in Work less customers than branch C.
their in Don’t
Total If the number of customers in branch A
field another work
is 1200 on a random day, what is the
of field estimated number of customers in
study branch C that same day?
Engineering 17,065 10,593 3,867 31,525
Questions 32-33 refer to the following
Business 18,547 11,753 3,243 33,543 information.
Law 20,372 1,438 542 22,352
Total 55,984 23,784 7,652 87,420 Humidity percentage vary according to the
temperature. The scatterplot below compares
Given a person who works outside his the temperature, in degree Fahrenheit and
field of study, which of the following is relative humidity on a certain day, every hour
closest to the probability that he
majored in business? from 12:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. The line of best
fit is also shown.
A. 0.35
B. 0.06
C. 0.5
D. 0.13
30. x 2 y 2 6 x 4 y 9 0
The equation above is an equation of a
circle. Which of the lines represented
by the equations below is tangent to this
circle?
1 1
y x
A. 3 3
B. y x
C. y 3
D. x 5
32. Based on the line of best fit, what is the
predicted humidity percentage at a
temperature of 74° Fahrenheit?
33. What is the humidity percentage
represented by the data point that is
farthest from the line of best fit?
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34. James adds to an oil tank 10 liters on 37. The salary of the manager Sam for the
day 1, then every day he adds 50% the month of January was $7,000. What is
amount he filled the day before. the salary of the supervisor John in
After 1000 days, how much oil is there January?
approximately in the tank? 38. In February, the salary of an employee,
35. Myriam opens a bank account with an a senior supervisor and a trainee was
initial deposit of 10,000 EGP. The bank $13,650 altogether.
account will earn 5 percent interest What was the approximate salary,
compounded annually for the first 3 rounded to the nearest dollar, of the
years, after which it will earn 8 percent trainee alone in February?
interest compounded annually.
What is the approximate amount,
rounded to the nearest EGP, added to
Myriam's account after 5 years?
36. A spinner has 2 blue sections, 3 red
sections and 5 yellow sections. It is
spun twice.
What is the probability of getting
different colors?
Questions 37-38 refer to the following
information.
Job title Commission
percentage
rate
Trainee 1%
Employee 2%
Supervisor 3%
Senior 4%
supervisor
Manager 5%
The chart above shows the commission
structure for staff members working in a
company.
All members of the staff benefit from a fixed
salary of $800 monthly plus a commission on
the profit of the company as shown in the chart.
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March 2021
EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Reference:
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
1. Given 2𝑥 8 3𝑦 4, what is the 6. The equation of a line is
value of 𝑥 if 𝑦 is equivalent to the 0. What is the slope of
square of 2?
the line?
A. 4
A. 3
B. 8
B. 2
C. 12
D. 24 C.
2. Amina went to the flower shop and D.
bought 2 roses and 5 daisies for 6
EGP. Lara bought from the same Questions 7-8 refer to the following
shop, 4 roses and 2 daisies for 4 EGP. graph.
How much should Ahmad pay to buy
2 roses and 2 daisies?
A. 1 EGP
B. 1.5 EGP
C. 2 EGP
D. 3 EGP
3. What is the simplified form of
2 3𝑖 7 𝑖 2𝑖 1 given that
𝑖 √ 1?
A. 16 7𝑖
B. 14 3𝑖
C. 16 5𝑖
D. 15 4𝑖 7. Which of the following statement(s)
is/are true regarding the graph above?
4. If 6, what is the value of
𝑎 3𝑏 ? (b ≠ 0) I. The coordinates of the vertex
of the parabola are 1; 0 .
A. 0.5 II. The axis of symmetry is at
B. 1 𝑥 1.
C. 2 III. The equation of the parabola
D. 3 is 𝑦 𝑥 2𝑥 1.
5. Given 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 3𝑥 1, and A. I only
𝑔 𝑥 2𝑥 1, what is the B. II only
equivalent expression representing C. I and II
𝑓 𝑔 𝑥 ? D. I and III
A. 2𝑥 2𝑥 3 8. What is the equation of the tangent to
B. 4𝑥 2𝑥 3 this parabola at the vertex?
C. 2𝑥 4𝑥 1
D. 4𝑥 4𝑥 1 A. 𝑥 0
B. 𝑦 0
C. 𝑦 𝑥
D. 𝑦 𝑥
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9. Using the figure below, what is the 11. In order to prepare for the boxing
value of 3𝑥 1 if 𝐴𝐶 is parallel to tournament, Jamison needs to work out
𝐹𝐷 ? (figure not drawn to scale) for at least 90 hours during the next 3
weeks. In the first week, he practiced for
42 hours, and decided to divide the rest
of the hours equally over the next two
weeks. How much should he practice
minimum each week?
A. 12 hours
B. 24 hours
C. 46 hours
D. 48 hours
12. Given 𝑓 𝑥 2𝑥 𝑎𝑥 1. What is
A. the value of 𝑎 if the axis of symmetry of
B. 8 the graph of 𝑓 is equal to 2.5 ?
C. 10 A. 10
D. 32 B. 5
10. The distance between Giza and Luxor C. 10
is approximately 500 Km. To travel D. 20
that distance, Bilal received offers 13. If 3 2𝑥 7 15, which of the
from 4 different taxi companies: following integers represents the
smallest value for 𝑥 3 ?
Fixed Amount per
Amount 25 Km (EGP) A. 1
(EGP) B. 2
Taxi “A” 160 15 C. 2
Taxi “B” 210 13 D. 1
Taxi “C” 185 14 𝒅𝟐 𝟒𝒎𝟐 𝟑
14. Given . What is the
Taxi “D” 150 16 𝟐𝒅 𝟒𝒎 𝟖
value of 𝒅 𝟐𝒎 ?
Which company gave Bilal the
cheapest offer? A.
A. Taxi “A” B.
B. Taxi “B” C.
C. Taxi “C”
D. Taxi “D” D.
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15. Which of the following is the 20. In triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶, sin 𝐶 0.5.
equation of the line perpendicular to What is the measure of ∠𝐴 ?
the line with equation 2𝑥 3𝑦 1 (figure not drawn to scale)(Grid-in)
and passing through the midpoint of
segment 𝐴𝐵 given 𝐴 2; 7 and
𝐵 1; 3 ?
A. 𝑦 𝑥
B. 𝑦 𝑥
C. 𝑦 𝑥
D. 𝑦 𝑥
6
April 2021
Section II
Calculator is required
(60 minutes)
7
April 2021
1. If 𝑓 is a linear function with 𝑓 0 4. By what approximate percent did
Amir increase the distance he walked
and 𝑓 3 , what is the value of from April 3rd to April 5th?
𝑓 3 ?
A. 34%
A. 0.5 B. 60%
B. 1.5 C. 67%
C. 2.5 D. 69%
D. 5
5. What is the vertex form of the
Questions 2-3-4 refer to the following function 𝑓 𝑥 3𝑥 9𝑥 1 ?
information.
A. 𝑓 𝑥 3 𝑥
The table below shows the distance Amir
walked every day during the first week of B. 𝑓 𝑥 3 𝑥
April, 2021.
C. 𝑓 𝑥 3 𝑥
Distance (in 𝑚)
Thursday, April 1st 1678 D. 𝑓 𝑥 3 𝑥
Friday, April 2nd 2091
6. In a village, 25% of the residents own
Saturday, April 3rd 1245
a German Shepherd, 45% own a
Sunday, April 4th 1566
Swiss Shepherd, and 35% do not own
Monday, April 5th 2100 a dog. Which of the following
Tuesday, April 6th 1989 statement(s) is/are correct?
Wednesday, April 7th 1888
I. 11% of the residents own both a
2. What is the average (arithmetic German Shepherd and a Swiss
mean) of the data shown in the table? Shepherd at the same time.
A. 2511.4 II. If we select a resident randomly,
B. 1888 the probability of him having a
C. 1793.9 Swiss Shepherd even though he
D. 1672.5 has a German Shepherd is 0.8.
3. If on Thursday, April 8th, Amir III. If we select a resident randomly,
walked the same distance he did the the probability of him having a
second day of April with an addition Swiss Shepherd even though he
of 20%. What is the distance he has a German Shepherd is 0.05.
walked?
A. I only
A. 4182 𝑚 B. III only
B. 2509.2 𝑚 C. I and II
C. 2420.6 𝑚 D. II and III
D. 2007.6 𝑚
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7. Which of the following is equivalent Questions 9-10 refer to the following
√ √ √ information.
to for all
The resistance (R) of a resistor is expressed
positive values of 𝑎 and 𝑚 ?
by 𝑅 with 𝑈 as the voltage in volts 𝑉 ,
A. and 𝐼 as the current in amperes 𝐴 .
The linear graph below represents the
B.
characteristic current-voltage (U-I) of a
resistor.
C.
D. 0
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April 2021
Questions 11-12 refer to the following 13. A bag contains 3 green balls, 5 red
information below. balls, 8 blue balls, and 4 yellow balls.
What is the value of the square of the
probability of choosing a yellow or a
red ball from the bag?
A. 0.2025
B. 0.45
C. 0.671
D. 0.9
14. Brenda went to the mall on a sale day,
and bought all the items shown in the
table below. If all the items were on a
35% sale except for the socks which
were on a 15% sale, how much would
The scatterplot above shows how many boys she pay if she bought the items on a
there are in two different villages and the non-sale day?
changes in numbers since year 2011. The
cubic curve of best fit, representing the Item Price (in $)
number of boys in village A, has the
following equation: 𝑦 0.83 𝑥 T-shirt 25.6
51.43𝑥 0.12𝑥 2149.86. The line of
best fit, representing the number of boys in Pants 35.25
village B, has the following equation:
Shoes 50.22
𝑦 194.3𝑥 2020.4.
11. At which date did the two villages Jacket 71.21
have approximately the same number
of boys? Socks 11.44
A. At the end of year 2011 A. $ 193.72
B. 2012 B. $ 259.23
C. 2013 C. $ 261.52
D. At the beginning of year 2014 D. $ 293.89
12. What is the closest difference
between the actual number of boys in
village B and the number which can
be predicted from the line of best fit
in 2014?
A. 13
B. 26
C. 53
D. 100
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April 2021
Questions 15-16 refer to the following 17. Using the figure below, what is the
information. value of 𝑦? (figure not drawn to
Intensity is the measure of the energy scale)
transmitted by a wave. Usually, it depends on
the strength and the amplitude of a wave and
its unit is Watts per square meters. The
formula of intensity is given by 𝐼 , where
𝑃 is the power (in Watts), and 𝐴 is the area of
the cross section (in square meters).
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April 2021
21. Which quadratic function has its 24. Given that the two lines 𝑑 : 2𝑥
graph passing through the points 𝑡𝑦 1 and 𝑚 : 3𝑥 𝑔𝑦 2
3, 0 , 2, 0 , and 1, 7 ? are perpendicular, and 𝑡 and 𝑔 are
constants, what is the value of 5𝑡𝑔
A. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 7 ?
B. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 7 A. 30
C. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 7 B. 6
D. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 7 C.
D. 30
22. Alonso used the table below to graph
the sets of ordered pairs shown. What 25. Which of the following points is not
is the type of the graph drawn and a solution to |2𝑥 1| 3𝑦 ?
which equation best models it? A. 4, 2
B. 2, 1
𝑥 7 4 2 1 7 C. 1, 1
D. 2, 1
𝑦 11 5 1 5 17
26. Given 2𝑥 7 5 and 2 ,
A. Linear function: 𝑦 2𝑥 3 what is the only integer 𝑥 that satisfies
B. Linear function: 𝑦 2𝑥 3 both inequalities?
C. Quadratic function: 𝑦 𝑥 A. 3
4𝑥 32 B. 4
D. Quadratic function: 𝑦 2𝑥 C. 5
10𝑥 17 D. 6
23. A school conducted a survey on the 27. What is twice the remainder of the
brand of the phone its employees are division of 2𝑥 1 3𝑥 by
using. The survey data is shown in the 2𝑥 3 ?
table below:
A. 4.5
Huawei Samsung IPhone Other B. 12.5
brands C. 25
D. 26
Staff 13 15 20 3
Teachers 22 56 44 7
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April 2021
28. A telecommunication company offers 30. According to the data published by
4 different monthly packages of “Worldometer”, the total cases of
internet subscription to its customers. people infected by Covid-19 in Egypt
The first package is for $12 in which on July 24, 2020, was 91,072, while
the customer will benefit from 1200 in August 3, 2020 it went up to 94,640
MBs internet in addition to 400 MBs cases.
gift after 3 consecutive months of If we consider the graph of the change
subscription. in number of total cases over the
The second package is for $16 in change in days is linear, what will be
which the customer will benefit from the total cases reported in August 9,
2000 MBs internet in addition to 550 2020? (Note that there are 31 days in
MBs gift after 3 consecutive months July).
of subscription.
A. 96,781 cases
The third package is for $25 in which B. 97,138 cases
the customer will benefit from 3400 C. 98,208 cases
MBs internet in addition to 800 MBs D. 101,776 cases
gift after 5 consecutive months of
subscription. 31. If ℎ varies inversely as 𝑘, and ℎ 9
The fourth package is for $30 in when 𝑘 20, what is the value of
which the customer will benefit from 𝑘 4 when ℎ 15? (grid-in)
4000 MBs internet with no addition. 32. Given the points
If Abdallah wants to choose the 𝐴 1; 4 , 𝐶 4; 1 , 𝐵 4; 1 , and
cheapest offer for him for the next 3 𝑅 1; 4 , what is the value of the
months, which one should he choose? area of quadrilateral 𝐴𝐵𝑅𝐶? (grid-in)
A. First package Questions 33-34 refer to the following
B. Second package information.
C. Third package
D. Fourth package A company decided to create brochures to
introduce their products. The printing house
29. If 2 5𝑖 with 𝑖 √ 1, responsible for designing and printing the
what is the value of 𝑎 ? brochures will charge the company $79 for
the design with 44 cents for each brochure
A. 2 19𝑖 180 printed.
B. 19𝑖 180
C. 19𝑖 180 33. If the company decided to print 2000
D. 2 19𝑖 180 brochures, how much should they
pay? (grid-in)
34. The maximum budget put by the
company for the brochures is $1,950.
How many brochures at most can
they print? (grid-in)
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35. Lucas bought a car for $3,500. He
lost 12% of its price when he sold it
for Brad, while Brad won 5% of what
he paid when he sold it to Amira.
How much did Amira pay for the car?
(grid-in)
36. In 2010, at a school, 3: 5 of the
seniors wanted to celebrate their prom
night at restaurant 𝑋, while 30% of
the rest voted for restaurant 𝑌, and the
84 students left voted for restaurant 𝑍.
How many senior students voted for
restaurant 𝑋? (grid-in)
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April 2021
EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Reference:
Section I
Calculator is not required
(30 minutes)
1. The difference between twice a 4. How many gallons of gas can
number and two is three times the Ibrahim’s tank hold?
number. Which of the following
A. 20
represents the equation that can be
B. 8
used to solve the number?
C. 12
A. 2x 2 3 x 2 D. 11.95
B. 2 2x 3
5. What does 20 represent in the
C. 2x 2 3x
equation above?
D. 2x 3x 3 x
A. Ibrahim’s tank can hold 20
2. If 50% of 𝑎 is 𝑏, then 𝑎 gallons of gas.
A. 50𝑏 B. Ibrahim’s car can travel 20
B. kilometers on 12 gallons of
gas.
C. 2𝑏
C. Ibrahim uses 20 gallons of gas
D. 0.50𝑏 per kilometer.
3. Ibrahim needs enough fencing to D. Ibrahim’s car can travel 20
enclose a rectangular garden with a kilometers to the gallon.
perimeter of 200 meters. If the
6. In June 2021, Peter wants to
length of his garden is to be 60
manage his time carefully to know
meters, which of the following
the number of interviews, T, he can
equations can be used to solve the
take. For each interview that he
width of the garden?
takes, he expects to spend 3.5 hours
A. 2𝑥 120 200 working on the candidate’s
B. 𝑥 60 200 application. In addition to this, he
C. 2𝑥 200 120 expects to spend an additional 5
D. 2𝑥 60 200 hours to schedule interviews for all
candidate. If Peter has 80 hours
Questions 4 and 5 refer to the same
available in June, how many
information
interviews can he take?
𝑚
𝑔 12 A. 21
20
B. 24
Ibrahim fills up the gas tank of his car C. 9
before going on a trip. The equation above D. 23
models the amount of gas 𝑔, in gallons,
remaining in Ibrahim’s car after he has
driven 𝑚 kilometers.
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May 2021
10. For what values of 𝑎 and 𝑏
will the equation 𝑥
𝑎𝑥 𝑏 have the solutions 1
and 1?
A. 𝑎 1; 𝑏 1
B. 𝑎 0; 𝑏 1
C. 𝑎 0; 𝑏 1
D. 𝑎 1; 𝑏 0
11. The graphs of 𝑓 𝑥 |𝑥| 2
and 𝑔 𝑥 1 in the same system
will have:
A. 0 points of intersection
B. 1 point of intersection
7. Which of the inequalities below C. 2 points of intersection
represents the solution of the D. 4 points of intersection
shaded region in the figure above?
12. What is the coefficient of 𝑥 when
A. 𝑦 0.5𝑥 3
𝑥 2𝑥 3 is multiplied by
B. 𝑦 0.5𝑥 3
C. 𝑦 0.5𝑥 3 5𝑥 ?
D. 𝑦 0.5𝑥 3
A. 10
8. Which of the following is the
B.
simplest form of the expression
C.
?
D.
A.
B. 2𝑥 3 3
𝑥 3 2𝑥 6
C.
13. Which of the following is
D. equivalent to the expression above,
9. A factor of the polynomial 7𝑥 given that 𝑥 3?
14𝑥 21 is:
A.
A. 7𝑥 7
B. 7𝑥 7 B.
C. 𝑥 3 C.
D. 7𝑥 3
D.
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May 2021
14. The graph of an exponential
function 𝐾 in the xy-plane, where
𝑦 𝐾 𝑥 has a y-intercept of ℎ,
where ℎ is a negative constant
number. Which of the following
could be function 𝐾?
A. 𝐾 𝑥 ℎ 𝑥
B. 𝐾 𝑥 2 ℎ
C. 𝐾 𝑥 ℎ 4
D. 𝐾 𝑥 √3ℎ𝑥
15. If C is a circle of center (2,0) and
radius = 2, then which of the
following points is inside the 18. In the figure above, ABCD is a
circle? square and points A, B and O lie on
A. 1,3 the parabola of equation 𝑦 𝑥 ,
B. 2,-2 where 𝑘 is a constant number. If the
C. 3,-1 area of ABCD is 16 𝑐𝑚 , what is
D. 4,0 the value of 𝑘? (The figure is not
drawn to scale). (Grid in)
x y
-4 -9
0 -1
2 3
p 9
16. In the figure above, d and d are 19. If the values in the table above
parallel lines, ∠2 103° , represent a linear relationship
∠3 107° and ∠4 97°. What between x and y, what is the value
is the measure of ∠1? (The figure of p? (Grid in)
is not drawn to scale) (Grid in) 20. How many asymptotes does the
curve of the function 𝑓 defined by
3𝑥 1 3𝑘 𝑥 𝑓 𝑥 admit? (Grid in)
17. If 𝑘 0 and 𝑥 2 in the equation
above, what is the value of 𝑘?
(Grid in)
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May 2021
Section II
Calculator is required
(60 minutes)
1. If 𝑥 is a positive number less than 1, 4. Street food tickets at the park cost 10
then which of the following is true? EGP for children and 15 EGP for
I. 𝑥 𝑥 adults. On a certain day, 1,500 tickets
II. 𝑥 𝑥 were bought for a total of 19,750
III. 𝑥 1 1 EGP.
What is the amount of money made
A. III only
from the tickets for adults only on that
B. I and II
day?
C. II and III
D. I and III A. 5,490 EGP
B. 7,500 EGP
2. In a school competition, students
C. 12,000 EGP
have to prepare sketches of length 𝑥
D. 14,250 EGP
minutes. The minimum length is 2
minutes and the maximum length is 3 𝑥 1 2
minutes. 2 2𝑥
3 4 5
Which inequality represents the given 5. What is the solution to the equation
situation? above?
A. |𝑥 2| 3
A. 𝑥
B. |𝑥 3| 2
C. |𝑥 2.5| 0.5 B. 𝑥
D. |𝑥 0.5| 2.5 C. 𝑥
(d): 𝑥 2𝑦 2 0 D. 𝑥
3. Which of the equations below could 6. If the straight line (d) of equation
not be a line perpendicular to line (d) 𝑘𝑥 3𝑦 1 0 passes through the
given above? point 0.5, 1 , what is the slope of
A. 4𝑥 2𝑦 2 0 (d)?
B. 2𝑥 𝑦 3 0 A. 4
C. 2𝑥 𝑦 1 0
B.
D. 6𝑥 3𝑦 0
C.
D.
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May 2021
10. The price of the COVID-19 vaccine
in the black market was first
increased by 15% and then increased
by 10% after two weeks. What is the
percent increase in the price of the
vaccine?
A. 126.5%
B. 26.5%
C. 25%
D. 1.265%
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May 2021
Questions 12, 13, 14 and 15 refer to the 15. Which appliances are used on
same information. weekends for an average of at least
three hours per day more than on
weekdays?
Home Electricity Use Per A. lights and washer
Appliance B. TV, computer and washer
30
C. TV and heater
D. Others
Average Hours Used Per Day
25
20
16. In a bag there are 14 identical tokens
15
10
numbered from 0 to 13. A token is
5 drawn at random. What is the
0 probability to obtain an odd multiple
of 3?
A.
Weekday Weekend B.
C.
12. What information does the graph
above provide? D.
A. Average kilowatts used by each 17. How much money would you need to
appliance in a day deposit today at 8% annual interest
B. Total electricity per day compounded monthly to have
C. Hours appliance used per day $10,000 in the account after 5 years?
D. Average hours used in a day by A. $6,500.5
each appliance B. $6,680.13
13. Which appliance has more usage on C. $6,712.10
weekdays than on weekends? D. $5,989.3
A. TV 18. A box contains 7 identical balls, three
B. Lights red, two green and two blue. Three
C. Computer balls are drawn randomly and
D. Fridge successively one after the other
without replacing the ball in the box.
14. How many hours a day, on average, is
What is the probability to get exactly
the washer used on weekdays?
one ball of each color?
A. 5
B. 6 A.
C. 7 B.
D. 12
C.
D.
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May 2021
19. Consider 𝑘 points on the plane where
no three points are collinear. How
many straight lines can be drawn
using these points?
A.
B.
C. 𝑘 𝑘 1
D.
!
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May 2021
23. The math teacher asked four of her
students to draw the function 𝑓 𝑥
in the xy-plane and to write only
one piece of information from their
obtained curves. The table below
shows the results.
Maya The curve admits a center of
symmetry of coordinates (1,0).
Tarek The curve admits two vertices.
Mirna The curve admits an asymptote of
equation 𝑦 1.
Albert The range of the function is ℝ.
Which student could be right?
A. Maya 26. The curve above represents the curve
B. Tarek of function 𝑓 defined over ℝ.
C. Mirna What is the solution of 0 𝑓 𝑥
D. Albert 2?
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May 2021
30. In the figure above, D1 and D2 are
two parallel lines.
28. What is the area of the cross section Which of the following is always
perpendicular to the base of the right true?
cone with a diameter of 6? (The figure
is not drawn to scale) A. 𝑧 𝑥
B. 𝑧 𝑥 𝑦
A. 36√2 C. 𝑥 𝑦 𝑧
B. 6√2 D. 𝑥 𝑧 𝑦 180
C. 18√2 31. If |2𝑥 3| 4 , what is the greatest
D. 18 possible value of |3𝑥 2|? (Grid in)
32. A father decides to give his son 10
EGP for every math question solved
correctly as to encourage him to study
mathematics more, but takes back 5
EGP if the solution is wrong. After 30
questions, each has given and
received the same amount of money.
How many correct questions did the
son solve? (Grid in)
33. What is 17% of 36% of 2500? (Grid
in)
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Push‐ups
70
60 60
55
50
40
30 30
20 20 20
15
10 10
0
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May 2021
EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.
Reference:
1. If x + y = 500 and 3x + 2y = 3000, 6. What is the slope of the line shown
what is the value of 5x – y? in the graph below?
A. 8000
B. 7000
C. 11500
D. -7000
2. Which of the following is equivalent
to
2 x 3 2 x 3 x 1 2 4 x2 9
2
?
A.
2 x 3 x 4
2 2 x 3 3x 4
B.
C.
2 x 3 x 8
D.
3x 5 (2 x 3)
3. Which of the following intervals A. -3
could be part of the solution of the B. -1
inequality |3𝑥 3| 3 ? C. 3
D. 1/3
A. ,
B. , 7. What is the equation of the line (d1)
passing through 𝐴 (3,4) and parallel
C. , to the line (d) of equation y= -2x + 5
D. 0 , ?
A. y 2x 3
2h 2 40
4. If N = , which of the
100 1
following could be h in terms of N? y x 10
B. 2
A. 50 N 20
100 N 20 C. y 2x 10
B.
C. 50 N 20
D. y 2x
D. 100 N 20
3
8. A circle has a circumference of 400 13. What is the domain of the function
units. 𝑓(x) = 3 x ?
What is the approximate diameter of A. ]-∞; +∞[
the circle? B. ]-∞; +3]
A. 127 units C. [+3; +∞[
B. 215 units D. ]-3; 3[
C. 312 units 14. The lengths of two sides of a triangle
D. 200 units are 4 and 7. Which of the following
9. If 32x−1 =27, what is the value of represents 𝑎, the possible length of
1 the remaining side?
x3 ?
2 A. a>11
A. 3 B. 3<a<11
C. -3<a<11
B. 0
D. impossible
C. 5
D. 4 15. Starting at sunrise, the temperature
rose 1.5 degrees Celsius every hour.
10. If 3 - 8x +5x2 =0, which of the After 10 hours, the temperature was
following is a solution for 𝑥? 40 degrees Celsius. Which of the
A. 0 following models the temperature y,
B. 2 in Celsius, after x hours from sunrise?
C. -1 A. 𝑦 40 1.5 𝑥 10
D. 1 B. 𝑦 10 10 𝑥 1.5
11. If k is an integer, and is greater C. 𝑦 10 1.5 𝑥 40
D. 𝑦 1.5 10 𝑥 40
than 15, what is the lowest possible
value of k? z4
16. Given 𝑓 𝑧 and h(z) = .
A. 34 z 1
B. 35 What is the value of ℎ ∘ 𝑓 0 ?
C. 33 (grid-in)
D. 36
17. What positive number is twice as far
12. Amanda paid $𝑎 for a makeup bag set from 9 as it is far from 3? (grid-in)
that was only $15 less than half the
original price. What was the original 18. The function h(x)= (x2-a)(4+x) – 112
price, in dollars, of this set? has zero at x=4. What is the value of
𝑎? (grid-in)
A. 2𝑎 30
B. 𝑎 15 19. Using the figure below, what is the
value of 𝑥? (grid-in)
C. 𝑎 15
D. 2𝑎 15
4
Note: figure not drawn to scale
20. What is the abscissa of the vertex of
the parabola defined by the quadratic
function below?
g(x) = x2 - 7x – 4 (grid-in)
5
Section II
Calculator is required
(55 minutes)
1. Which of the following is a point of 4. What is the percentage of parents
intersection between the line with the trusting the news from social media
equation 𝑦= 3x+2 and the parabola platforms in this survey?
with the equation 𝑦 =4x2 – 9x+11? A. 17%
A. (3.5 ; 3) B. 25.7%
C. 29.3%
B. (4 ; 14) D. 34%
C. (-2 ; -4) 5. If this survey was conducted on 120
D. (1.5; 6.5) people, and the results showed the
same percentage for each source.
2. Tony’s salary was $4600. It increased How many people approximately
by 10% in the first year and decreased would say that radio stations or TV
by 3% in the second year. What will channels are the most trustworthy?
be the salary of Tony at the end of the
A. 29
second year?
B. 41
A. $6500 C. 53
B. $5580.4 D. 58
C. $4908.2
6. A rectangle is cut into 20 identical
D. $4800.6
squares such that each has an area of
3. The price of three squash and two 12.25 𝑐𝑚 . Which of the following
zucchini is 10 EGP, while the price of cannot be a possible value for the
five squash and three zucchini is 16.5 perimeter of the rectangle?
EGP. What is the price of one squash
A. 147 cm
and four zucchini?
B. 84 cm
A. 7 EGP C. 70 cm
B. 5 EGP D. 63 cm
C. 10 EGP
7. If Tony’s salary is 25% greater than
D. 8.5 EGP
Sami’s salary. Which of the following
Questions 4 and 5 refer to the information statements is true?
below. A. Sami’s salary is lower than
The histogram below shows the results of Tony’s salary by 16%.
a survey done by a group of students on B. Sami’s salary is lower than
the source of news their parents trust Tony’s salary by 20%.
most. C. Sami’s salary is lower than
Tony’s salary by 25%.
D. Sami’s salary is lower than
Tony’s salary by 33%.
8. What is the product of the solutions of
x3 – 4x2 – 7x +10=0?
A. -10
B. -12
C. 14
D. 5
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9. A lobby in a hotel offers 12 choices of a
fresh juices, 7 choices of smoothies, 13. If is negative, which of the
b
and 4 choices of milk shakes. A following is definitely negative?
customer can choose to drink just one
course, or two different courses, or all A. 𝟐𝑎𝑏
three courses. Assuming all choices B. a2 b
are available, how many different C. (b-a)2
possible drinks does the hotel offer? D. a-b
A. 368 14. What is the area of the shaded region
B. 128 in the figure below?
C. 519
D. 412
10. What is the y-intercept of the line
passing through points (5;5) and
(-5;-1)?
A. -3
B. 2
C. 0
D. 4 A. 47.12
B. 26.75
1 C. 14.72
11. If f(x)= x and g(x)= f(2x), what
x D. 11.15
is the value of g(-3)?
15. 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is a parallelogram such that
35 A(1;-2), B(1;3), C(-1;3). What are the
A. 6 coordinates of D, the fourth vertex of
15 the parallelogram?
B. 14 A. D (-1;2)
5 B. D (-2;-1)
C. 7 C. D (-1;-2)
4 D. D (3;2)
7 16. What is the inverse function of 𝑓(x)=
D.
2x 3
12. Three friends divided a prize as ?
3x 5
3
follows: the youngest received of 5 x 3
5 f 1 ( x )
the prize, the middle friend received A. 3 x 2
1 3 x 5
of the prize, and the eldest received f 1 ( x )
4 B. 3 x 2
the remaining $57. What was the 5 x 3
f 1 ( x )
value, in dollars, of the prize? C. 3x 2
A. 380 3x 5
f 1 ( x )
B. 420 D. 3 x 2
C. 140
D. 270
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17. The price of a CD player is 180 €. It 21. In a school, there are 80 students
is on sale at the price of 135 €. A distributed into three classes
customer wishes to purchase this according to the following table:
device. He has a loyalty card from the
First Second Third
store that allows him to benefit from
Secondary Secondary Secondary
a 10% discount at checkout. How
Females 18 17 5
much will he pay for this device?
Males 12 18 10
A. 148.5
B. 121.5
C. 125 One student is selected at random
D. 145 from this school.
What is the probability that the
2
18. If the graph of y = ax + 5x + c has x- selected student is from the second
intercepts at 1 and 3, what is the value secondary?
of a + c? 17
A. 5 A. 35
B. -3 7
C. 8 16
B.
D. -5 30
19. The price of dairy products has C. 80
increased by 7% in 2011 and then 18
decreased by 8% in 2012. D. 35
What is the new price in 2012 of a 22. In the xy-plane, the perpendicular
box of cheese knowing that the lines T and K intersect at the point
original price in 2010 was $20? (3,2). If line T contains the point
A. $18.85 (2,5), which of the following points is
B. $19.688 on line K?
C. $19.573 A. (5,3)
D. $18.24 B. (-2,1)
C. (1,2)
20. In how many ways can first, second, D. (6,3)
and third place be awarded to 15
people? 23. If 5x +2y =12 000, what is the value
A. 252 of -0.625x- 0.25y?
B. 302 A. 1500
C. 455 B. -1500
D. 2730 C. 3000
D. -3000
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24. Ohm's law states that the current
through a conductor between two
points is directly proportional to the
voltage across the two points.
Introducing the constant of
proportionality, the resistance, one
arrives at the usual mathematical
equation that describes this
relationship:
U
I
R
Which of the following statements is 26. In the xy-plane above, what is the
true regarding the given formula? sum of double the slope of g and triple
I. If R increases, the current I will the slope of a line parallel to f?
increase. A. 6
II. If U increases, the current I will B. 4
increase. C.
III. If R increases, the current I will
D. 2
decrease.
2a 1.2b 4
A. I only 27. If , which of the
B. II only a 5 5
C. I and II following is correct?
D. II and III A. 3a+3b = -7
25. If 5(x + 2) – 3x ≤ 4 + 2x + 3(x – 1), B. a – b = 10
what is the solution of x? C. a + b = ‐10/3
D. 2a – b = 5
A. x 3
x3 28. What is the average (arithmetic mean)
B.
x3 of 211 and 223?
C.
D. x 3 A. 217
B. 215
C. 210 + 222
D. 234
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29. Sami has a website where he sells Questions 33, 34 and 35 refer to the
books and copybooks. He purchases following information.
his books for $10.26 each and his
copybooks for $7.58 each. Sami pays
$1 to mail each book or copybook to
his customers. He charges $19.25 per
book and $11.58 per copybook plus a
postage of $1.25 per book or
copybook. Which of the following
represents his profit P, in dollars, on
the sale of x books and y copybooks?
A. P = 10.26x + 7.58y
B. P = 8.99x + 4 y
C. P = 9.24x + 4.25y
D. P = 9.24x + 4y The bar chart above shows the scores of a
Math test over 100.
30. If 𝑥 2𝑦 1, which of the following
is always true? 33. What is the median score? (grid-in)
A. 𝑥 𝑦 1 𝑦 34. What is the range of the scores?
B. 𝑥 𝑦 1 𝑦 (grid-in)
C. 2𝑥 𝑦 1 3𝑦
D. 2𝑦 2𝑥 𝑥 1 35. How many students score at least 55?
(grid-in)
31. The sum of triple a number x and 6 is
equal to half the difference of twice a 36. Given that 2 16 64, what is the
number x and 5. What is the value of value of 2𝑥 ? (grid-in)
(1-4x)? (grid-in) 1
37. If cos(x)sin(x) = , what is the value
32. If y varies directly as the square of 3x 2
and y=16 when x=4, what is y when x of (cos(x) + sin(x))2 + 16 sin2x?
is equal to 6? (grid-in) 38. The formula for speed is
speed = distance ÷ time. If a girl
cycles for 2.3 hours at a speed of 42
km/h, what distance does she travel?
(grid-in)
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EST I – Math w/o Calculator
Duration: 30 minutes
20 Multiple Choice Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Formula sheet is available on the next page of the booklet for your reference.
Reference:
1. Given 2𝑥 𝑦 8 and 3. In a company, the total cost, in
3𝑦 𝑥 1. What is the value of dollars, of the production of a certain
𝑦 2𝑥? product 𝑥 is given by
A. 16 𝐶 𝑥 𝑥 15𝑥 2000𝑥. The
B. 12 profit made out of selling this product
C. 8 is given by
D. 8 𝑃 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 1500𝑥. If
𝑅 𝑥 indicates the revenue made out
of selling this product, and the
relationship between the cost, the
revenue, and the profit is represented
by 𝑃 𝑥 𝑅 𝑥 𝐶 𝑥 , which of
the following expressions is
equivalent to 𝑅 𝑥 ?
A. 𝑅 𝑥 𝑥 3500𝑥
B. 𝑅 𝑥 𝑥 3500𝑥
C. 𝑅 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 3500𝑥
D. 𝑅 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 500𝑥
2. What is the slope of the line
represented in the graph above? 4. In Egypt, a tourist can travel a
A. 2 distance of 5 𝑘𝑚 with just 15.57
EGP. Pedro needed to go to “San
B. Pola” hospital in Cairo. He took a taxi
from “Al Marazeek” bridge, which is
C. 1 approximately 35 𝐾𝑚 away from the
D. hospital. How much will Pedro pay
for the driver, knowing that he gave
him 10 extra EGP as tips?
A. 554.95 EGP
B. 477.1 EGP
C. 118.99 EGP
D. 109.09 EGP
5. The sum of three consecutive integers
is 24. What is the product of the two
greatest integers between them all?
A. 27
B. 56
C. 72
D. 504
4
6. The impulsive force 𝑓 derives from 8. If 𝑥 √2 3, what is the value of
impulse, and it is a big force acting for 2𝑥 3𝑥 1?
a small interval of time. It is like
having a truck travelling at a full A. 5√2 14
speed, and suddenly crashing a B. 3√2 30
garden’s gate because the driver did C. 3√2 24
not pay attention to it. It can be D. 15√2 30
represented by 𝑓 𝑚 , with 𝑚
9. If 4 16, what is the value of
the mass of the body, 𝑣 the final
4 ?
velocity, 𝑣 the initial velocity, and 𝑡
the time interval through which the A.
force is applied. Which of the
following represents 𝑣 in terms of 𝑓, B. 64
𝑚, 𝑡, and 𝑣 ? C. 4096
A. 𝑣 𝑣 D.
B. 𝑣 𝑣
10. If 𝑎 𝑏 0, and 𝑎 𝑐 0, then
𝑏 𝑐?
C. 𝑣 𝑣
A. Is smaller than 0, with 𝑎 𝑐
D. 𝑣 𝑣 B. Is greater than 0, with 𝑎 𝑐
C. Is smaller than 0, with 𝑎 𝑐
7. “Unou House”, located in Japan and D. Is greater than 0, with 𝑎 𝑐
built between 2010 and 2012, features 11. What is the square of the ordinate of
a house with a floor of triangular the vertex of the graph of the function
shape and can be considered as an 𝑓 𝑥 3𝑥 6𝑥?
isosceles triangle. The area of the
triangular floor is approximately A. 6
84 𝑚 . If we consider that the base of B. 2
this triangle is 12 𝑚, what is the C. 1
dimension of one of the equal sides in D. 9
this triangle?
A. √193 𝑚
B. 2√58 𝑚
C. 14 𝑚
D. 170 𝑚
5
15. What is triple the square root of the
discriminant of the equation 4𝑥
5 𝑥 3 6?
A. 13
B. 26
C. 39
D. 13√3
16. Given that 2𝑥 𝑎𝑥 4𝑐 1
2𝑏 1 𝑥 7𝑥 𝑐 1, what is
the value of 𝑏𝑐 𝑎, where 𝑎, 𝑏 and
𝑐 are real numbers?
12. Which of the systems of equations A. 8
below is being represented in the
graph above? B.
𝑥 2𝑦 4 C. 7.5
A.
𝑥 𝑦 1
𝑥 2𝑦 4 D.
B.
𝑥 𝑦 1 Questions 17-18 refer to the figure below.
𝑥 2𝑦 4
C.
𝑥 𝑦 1
𝑥 2𝑦 4
D.
𝑥 𝑦 1
6
18. What is the sum of the slope of ⃖𝐴𝐵⃗ 19. What is the smallest value of the
and the slope of a line perpendicular range of the function
⃖ ⃗?
to 𝐴𝐶 𝑓 𝑥 4𝑥 2𝑥 1?
A. A.
B. B.
C. C.
D. 1
D.
20. 𝜋 radians is how much in degrees?
A. 36°
B. 288°
C. 72°
D. 112°
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EST I – Math with Calculator
Duration: 55 minutes
38 Multiple Choice Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available on the next page of the booklet for your reference.
Reference:
1. Given the two inequalities Questions 3-4-5 refer to the information
3𝑥 1 8 and 4𝑥 1 3 𝑥 3 , below.
what is the greatest possible integer A company for renting cars published on
for 𝑥? their website a summary of the amount they
A. 2 won during the past few years from renting
B. 3 cars and trucks.
C. 9 Amount
D. 10 Amount
won in $ for
Year won in $ for
2. In the 𝑥𝑦-plane, line 𝑚 passes renting
renting cars
through the point 2, 5 and is trucks
perpendicular to the line 𝑛 that 2015 10004.6 7888.3
passes through the points 4, 7 and 2016 12456.7 7985.2
2, 3 . Which of the following 2017 14899.9 8050.2
represents the equation of line 𝑚 ? 2018 13899.5 9000.5
2019 12003.4 8599.4
A. 𝑦 𝑥 8 2020 13990.1 7995.5
B. 𝑦 𝑥 8
3. What is the sum of the averages of the
C. 𝑦 2𝑥 1 amounts won for renting cars and
trucks during years 2017 to 2020?
D. 𝑦 𝑥
A. $8411.4
B. $13698.225
C. $22109.625
D. $25678.725
4. What is the percentage increase of the
amount won for renting trucks from
2015 to 2017?
A. 1.62%
B. 2.01%
C. 2.05%
D. 48.93%
5. This company has only one employee
who works for $1650 per month. In
which year was this company unable
to pay his full wage from the amount
won from renting cars and trucks?
A. 2015
B. 2016
C. 2019
D. 2020
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6. Amina has a bag of 6 black balls and 9. During the final game of UEFA Euro
4 green balls. Hamad has a bag of 3 2020 between Italy and England,
black balls and 5 green balls. If one 67,173 fans attended the game in
ball is drawn from each bag, what is Wembley Stadium in London,
the probability that one is black and England. Assuming that the ratio of
one is green? adults to children who attended the
game was approximately 13 to 6,
A. 0.225
which of the following numbers
B. 0.25
represents approximately the number
C. 0.475
of children who attended the game
D. 0.525
live in the stadium?
7. Which of the following ordered pairs
A. 21213
satisfy both inequalities: 𝑥 3𝑦 8
B. 31002
and 2𝑥 𝑦 9?
C. 36170
A. 0, 3 D. 45960
B. 1, 2
10. What is the solution for 𝑥 in
C. 1, 2
D. 1, 9 2 √2𝑥 3 ?
A. 2.5
B. 3.5
C. 4.5
D. 0.5
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11. Giving that abscissa “0” signifies the
beginning of the month of January,
which of the following statements
is/are true?
I.The largest increase in the number
of phones sold was between the
beginning of May and the
beginning of June.
II.Most of the phones were sold in
the first quarter of the year.
III.The number of phones sold in B.
mid-January is equivalent to the
number of phones sold in mid-
June.
A. I only
B. I and II
C. I and III
D. II and III
12. What is the average increase in the
number of phones sold?
A. 0.8 C.
B. 0.9
C. 1
D. 1.1
13. Which of the following represents
the graph of the function
𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 1?
D.
A.
5
14. What is the range 𝑅 of the function 16. Citrus trees are fruit trees that require
𝑓 𝑥 ? wet roots. These trees need a careful
attention summarized by an excellent
A. 𝑅 ∞, 0 𝑈 0, ∞
drainage and sandy soil. Adnan has a
B. 𝑅 ∞, 0 𝑈 0, ∞ land in a village in Egypt. He
decided to start a project of planting
C. 𝑅 ∞, 2 𝑈 2, ∞ 205 citrus trees in it and getting a
D. 𝑅 ∞, 2 𝑈 2, ∞ farmer to manage the land. He got
each tree for 172 EGP, and the
farmer asked for 100 EGP to plant
each tree, in addition of 3994 EGP
per month to manage the land and
the drainage. How much will Adnan
pay during the first year of his
project?
A. 103,688 EGP
B. 100,388 EGP
C. 83,288 EGP
D. 59,754 EGP
17. Santa Clara County is the 6th most
15. The pie chart above shows the results
populous county in California, United
of a survey that asked 1420 students
States of America, with 1.928 million
in a school about their favorite fruit.
people were living there in 2019. If
How many students like mango more
than any other fruit? And, this number was decreased by 7% the
approximately how many more next year due to people who died or
students said apple was their favorite left this county, and 4% of year
fruit than said oranges was their 2020’s population was added again in
favorite one? the population of year 2021 due to
newborns or newcomers to the
A. 250 students like mango, and 110 county, how many people are in this
students said apple was their county in 2021?
favorite fruit more than said
A. 1,734,229
orange was their favorite one.
B. 1,793,040
B. 250 students like mango, and 118
C. 1,864,762
students said apple was their
D. 1,939,353
favorite fruit more than said
orange was their favorite one.
C. 306 students like mango, and 63
students said apple was their
favorite fruit more than said
orange was their favorite one.
D. 187 students like mango, and 56
students said apple was their
favorite fruit more than said
orange was their favorite one.
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18. Shahira and Nicole went to the 19. If 𝑓 𝑥 3𝑥 4 2𝑥 7 and
supermarket to buy chocolate. The 𝑔 𝑥 4 2𝑥 1 , what is the
list of what they bought and the total value of ?
price paid can be seen in the table
below. A.
Number Number B.
of of
Total C.
chocolates chocolates
price
bought bought D.
paid
from from
(in $)
brand brand 20. Fares decided to sell his 450 books.
“A” “B” 22% of the books are new, and the
Shahira 7 3 25.4 rest are considered old. If each new
Nicole 4 5 24.7 book will be sold for $11, and each
old book will be sold for $6.5, how
much will Fares get from selling his
If you went to the same supermarket books?
and bought 1 chocolate from brand
“A” and 3 chocolates from brand “B”, A. $4504.5
how much will you pay? B. $3370.5
C. $2281.5
A. $5.4 D. $1089
B. $7.5
C. $10 21. Which of the following is a factor of
the polynomial:
D. $11.6
2𝑥 13𝑥 5𝑥 6 ?
A. 𝑥 1
B. 𝑥 6
C. 2𝑥 1
D. 2𝑥 1
22. Karim drove his car from his village
to the city. It took him 2.5 hours to
reach the city driving at a constant
speed of 60 𝑘𝑚 per hour.
Approximately, how much will he
save time if he starts driving at a
constant speed of 70 𝑘𝑚 per hour?
A. 0.357 hours
B. 0.765 hours
C. 1.544 hours
D. 2.143 hours
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23. A store did a sale on a pair of shoes. 28. Patrick is twice as old as Alonso.
It is now for $103.5 instead of $230. Alonso is 7 years older than Fatima,
What is the percent discount? and Fatima is 2 years younger than
Patricia. If Patricia’s age to Salma’s
A. 50%
age is 4 to 3, what is the age of Patrick
B. 45%
if Salma is 12 years old?
C. 55%
D. 58% A. 16 years old
B. 21 years old
24. Which of the following equations
C. 42 years old
represents the graph of a quadratic
D. 48 years old
function that passes through points
2, 5 , 3, 0 , and 4, 0 ? 29. 𝑘 2 ; 2𝑘 4 ; 2𝑘 5 ; 3𝑘 5
The average of the list above is 36.
A. 𝑦 𝑥 𝑥 10 Find 𝑘.
B. 𝑦 𝑥 𝑥 10 A. 144
C. 𝑦 𝑥 𝑥 10 B. 18
C. 16
D. 𝑦 𝑥 𝑥 10 D. 2
25. Given that ℎ 𝑡 𝑡 0 , 30. The sum of three numbers is
what is the negative value of 𝑡 if equivalent to the product of the third
ℎ 𝑡 3? number and half the difference of the
first two numbers. Assuming that the
A. 0.5 first number is 𝑎, the second number
B. 0.4 is 𝑏, and the third number is 𝑐, which
C. 0.3 of the following statements represents
D. 0.2 𝑎 in terms of 𝑏 and 𝑐?
26. What is the sum of the values of the 𝑥 A. 𝑎 𝑐𝑏 2𝑏 2𝑐
and 𝑦-intercepts of the graph of the B. 𝑎
function
𝑓 𝑥 2𝑥 3 𝑥 5 ? C. 𝑎
A. 18 D. 𝑎 𝑐𝑏 2𝑏 2𝑐
B. 12 31. 30% of a number is 86.4% of 50.
C. 12 What is this number?
D. 18
𝑑𝑥 2𝑚𝑦 14 A. 144
27. B. 17.36
3𝑑𝑥 6𝑚𝑦 78
(d and m are constants) C. 1440
Given that the solution of the system D. 92
above is 2, 5 , what is the value of
2𝑚𝑥 3𝑑𝑦?
A. 37
B. 18
C. 11
D. 20
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32. If ℎ 𝑥 2𝑥 3𝑔 𝑥 , and 36. If the distance between points
𝑔 𝑥 3𝑥 7, what is the value of 𝐴 3, 𝑐 and 𝐵 9, 5 in a coordinate
ℎ 4 ? system is 3√13, and 𝐴 is a point in
a. 5 the first quadrant, what is the value
b. 23 of 7?
c. 7
A. 0
d. 23
B. 4
33. 𝑇 and 𝑇′ are two triangles. 𝑇 is a C. 9
right isosceles triangle of hypotenuse D. 11
9√2, and the 𝑇′ is a 30° 60° 90° 37. The arithmetic mean of the set below
triangle, such that the small leg is is 7.25. What is the median of this
equivalent to 4. What is the sum of set?
the perimeters of both triangles?
(Give your answer to the nearest 𝑛 4 ; 6 ; 11 ; 2𝑛 1
tenth) A. 6
a. 49.7 B. 7
b. 34.5 C. 6.5
c. 54.4 D. 8.5
d. 38.5
2𝑥 𝑦 1
34. 𝑎𝑥 𝑦 4 (𝑎 is a positive
4𝑥 𝑦 1
constant)
The sum of the abscissas of the
intersections of the lines of the three
equations in the system above is 1.6.
What is the value of 𝑎?
a. 0.5
b. 1 38. Sami has a circular land of a radius
c. 1.5 6 𝑚. He decided to cultivate a part of
d. 2 this land, which is shown shaded in
35. 17 is subtracted from triple the sum the figure above. Each 1 𝑚 will cost
of all integers from 1 to 44. What is him 79 EGP. Knowing that
the result? 𝑚∠𝐷𝐴𝐶 155°, how much will
Sami pay to cultivate the desired
a. 973
area? (Give your answer to the
b. 939 nearest ones)
c. 5923
d. 2953 A. 3,847 EGP
B. 220,410 EGP
C. 20,752 EGP
D. 5,248 EGP
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EST I – Math
Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculator is not required, II – Calculator is required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions
Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculator is allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- Formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.