Practice Test 2: SSAT (Upper Level) 485

practice test
Section 4: Quantitative (Math)
25 Questions • 30 Minutes
Directions: Each question below is followed by five possible answers. Select the one
that is best, and mark the appropriate letter on your answer sheet.

1. In 2 hours, the minute hand of a clock

(C) +4
rotates through an angle of
(A) 60°
(B) 90° (D) + 16
(C) 180°
(D) 360° (E) +2
(E) 720°

2. Which of the following fractions is less 4.

than one third?
(A)

(B)

(C) The diagram shows a cube.

The distance from A to X is

(D) (A) 2 inches
(B) inches
(E) (C) inches

3. (D) 1 inch

(E) inches

5. A motorist travels 120 miles to his

destination at an average speed of
60 miles per hour and returns to the
The length of each side of the square
starting point at an average speed of
40 miles per hour. What is the average
above is + 1. The perimeter of the
speed for his entire trip?
(A) 53 miles per hour
square is (B) 52 miles per hour
(A) +4 (C) 50 miles per hour
(D) 48 miles per hour
(B) (E) 45 miles per hour

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6. A snapshot measures 2 inches by 9. A sportswriter claims that her foot-

ball predictions are accurate 60% of
1 inches. It is to be enlarged so that the time. During football season, a
fan kept records and found that the
the longer dimension will be 4 inches. writer was inaccurate for a total of 16
The length of the enlarged shorter games, although she did maintain her
dimension will be 60% accuracy. For how many games
was the sportswriter accurate?
(A) 2 inches.
(A) 5
(B) 15
(B) 2 inches.
(C) 24
(C) 3 inches. (D) 40
(D) 3 inches. (E) 60

10. In a certain boys’ camp, 30% of the

(E) 3 inches. boys are from New York State and
20% of these are from New York City.
7. From a piece of tin in the shape of a What percent of the boys in the camp
square 6 inches on a side, the largest are from New York City?
possible circle is cut out. Of the follow-
ing, the ratio of the area of the circle (A) 60%
to the area of the original square is (B) 50%
closest in value to (C) 33%
(A) (D) 10%
(E) 6%

(B)
11.
(C)
A unit block for construction is 1 × 2
× 3 inches. What is the number of
(D) whole blocks required to cover an area
1 foot long by 1 feet wide with one
(E) 1
4 layer of blocks?
(A) 30 blocks
8. If the outer diameter of a metal pipe
is 2.84 in. and the inner diameter is (B) 60 blocks
1.94 in., the thickness of the metal is (C) 72 blocks
(A) 0.45 in. (D) 90 blocks
(B) 0.90 in. (E) 180 blocks
(C) 1.42 in.
(D) 1.94 in.
(E) 2.39 in.

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12. If the number of square inches in the 16. If a cubic inch of a metal weighs 2

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area of a circle is equal to the number pounds, a cubic foot of the same metal
of inches in its circumference, the weighs
diameter of the circle is (A) 8 pounds.
(A) 4 inches. (B) 24 pounds.
(B) 2 inches. (C) 96 pounds.
(C) 1 inch. (D) 288 pounds.
(D) π inches. (E) 3456 pounds.
(E) 2π inches.
17. A micromillimeter is defined as one
13. The least common multiple of 20, 24, millionth of a millimeter. A length of
and 32 is 17 micromillimeters may be repre-
(A) 240 sented as
(B) 480 (A) 0.00017 mm.
(C) 960 (B) 0.000017 mm.
(D) 1920 (C) 0.0000017 mm.
(E) 15,360 (D) 0.00000017 mm.
(E) 0.000000017 mm.
14. If 9x + 5 = 23, the numerical value of
18x + 5 is 18. To find the radius of a circle whose
(A) 46 circumference is 60 inches,
(B) 41 (A) multiply 60 by π.
(C) 38 (B) divide 60 by 2π.
(D) 36 (C) divide 30 by 2π.
(E) 32 (D) divide 60 by π and extract the
square root of the result.
15. When the fractions , , , and are (E) multiply 60 by π .
2
arranged in ascending order of size,
the result is 19. A carpenter needs four boards, each
2 feet 9 inches long. If wood is sold
(A) , , , only by the foot, how many feet must
he buy?
(B) , , , (A) 9
(B) 10
(C) 11
(C) , , ,
(D) 12
(E) 13
(D) , , ,

(E) , , ,

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20. The approximate distance, S, in feet 23. The number of telephones in Adelaide,
that an object falls in t seconds when Australia, is 48,000. If this represents
dropped from a height can be found 12.8 telephones per 100 people, the
by using the formula S = 16t2. In 8 population of Adelaide to the nearest
seconds the object will fall thousand is
(A) 256 feet. (A) 128,000
(B) 1024 feet. (B) 375,000
(C) 1084 feet. (C) 378,000
(D) 2048 feet. (D) 556,000
(E) 15,384 feet. (E) 575,000

24. One person can load a truck in 25

QUESTIONS 21 AND 22 REFER TO THE minutes, a second can load it in 50
FOLLOWING GRAPH. minutes, and a third can load it in 10
minutes. How long would it take the
3000 three together to load the truck?
2500 (A) 5 minutes
POPULATION
NUMBER IN

2000
1
1500 (B) 6 minutes
4
1000
(C) 8 minutes
500
(D) 10 minutes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (E) 28 minutes
YEAR

21. During which years did the population 25. Event A occurs every 4 minutes, event
increase at the fastest rate? B every 6 minutes, and event C every
15 minutes. If they occur simultane-
(A) Years 5–7
ously at noon, when is the next time
(B) Years 1–3 all three events will occur together
(C) Years 4–5 again?
(D) Years 7–9 (A) 1 p.m.
(E) Years 9–10 (B) 1:30 p.m.
(C) 3 p.m.
22. During which year did the size of the
(D) 6 p.m.
population decrease the most?
(E) 12 a.m.
(A) Years 4–5
(B) Years 3–4
(C) Years 9–10
(D) Years 1–2
(E) Years 4–6

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