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1. A cube has a volume of 27 in 3 . What is the 4. In right triangle ABC below, AC  8 and
length of each of its edges? BC  10 . What is the length AB ?
A. 3
B. 6
C. 9
D. 27
E. 81

A. 6
B. 82
C. 4 5
D. 2 41
E. 4 41
2. A triangle has an area of 24 square inches
and a height of 8 inches. What could be the
length of its base?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 12
E. 48 5. In the figure below, X and Z lie on the circle
Y, which has a radius of 6. If the angle XYZ
is 60 , what is the area of sector XYZ ?

3. Cylinder A and cylinder B have a height of 3

inches, but cylinder B has a diameter four
inches greater than that of cylinder A. If the
diameter of cylinder B is 12 inches, how A. 2
much greater is the volume of cylinder B 3
B.
than cylinder A ?
C. 6
A. 4 9
D.
B. 12 36
E.
C. 20
D. 60
E. 240

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6. A square has a side length of 6 inches. What 9. The area of the trapezoid below is 36 square
is the length of its diagonal? inches, the altitude is 4 inches, and the
length of one base is 8 inches. What is the
A. 2 6 length, b, of the other base, in inches?
B. 6 2
C. 6 3
D. 6
E. 12

A. 10
B. 12
C. 16
D. 26
E. 32
7. What is the slope of the linear equation
3x  2 y  4  0 ?

3
A.
2
3
B. 
2
2
C. The picture shown below has a uniform
3 10.
2 3
D.  frame-width of inches. What is the
3 4
approximate area, in square inches, of the
E. 3 viewable portion of the picture?

8. What is the distance between the points

 2,3 and  4, 5 on the standard  x, y 
coordinate plane?
A. 10 A. 49.00
B. 10 B. 50.50
C. 100 C. 564.25
D. 106 D. 601.56
E. 2 17 E. 640.00

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11. Two sides of a triangle measure 5 inches and 14. What is the area, in square units, of the
6 inches, respectively. Which of the parallelogram shown below?
following could be the length of the third
side?
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
E. 14

A. 150
B. 240
C. 260
D. 300
E. 325
12. A circle in the standard  x, y  coordinate
plane is tangent to the x-axis at 5 and tangent
to the y-axis at 5. Which of the following is
an equation of the circle?

A. x2  y 2  5
B. x2  y 2  25
C.  x  5  2   y  5 2  5 15. In the figure below, ABC is a right triangle
D.  x  52   y  52  25 with legs that measure x and 2x inches,
respectively. What is the length, in inches, of
E.  x  52   y  52  25 the hypotenuse?

13. If the volume of a cube is 8, what is the

shortest distance from the center of the cube
to the base of the cube?
A. 3
A. 1
B. 5
B. 2
C. x
C. 4
D. x 3
D. 2
E. x 5
E. 2 2

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16. A rectangular patio is 12 feet longer than it 19. In the figure below, LMNO is a trapezoid, P
is wide. Its area is 160 square feet. How lies on LO, and angle measures are as
long, in feet, is it? marked. What is the measure of angle
MON?
A. 8
B. 10
C. 16
D. 20
E. 28

A. 40
B. 45
C. 50
D. 90
E. 95
17. The ratio of the radii of two circles is 4:9.
What is the ratio of their circumferences?
A. 2:3
B. 4:6
C. 4:9
D. 8 :18
E. 16 : 81
20. For what value of n would the following
system of equations have an infinite number
of solutions?
4 x  5 y  16
20 x  25 y  2n
A. 8
B. 10
C. 32
18. In ABC , AB  BC and the measure of
A is 42 . What is the measure of C ? D. 40
E. 80
A. 21
B. 42
C. 48
D. 84
E. 138

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21. The length of arc OP of a circle is equal to 24. In rhombus RHOM shown below, one side
1 measures 10 inches. If OR  16 , what is the
of the circumference of the circle. The length of diagonal HM, in inches?
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length of the arc is 6 inches. What is the

radius, in inches, of the circle?

A. 9
B. 27
C. 54
D. 108
A. 6
E. Not enough information
B. 12
C. 22
D. 24
E. 26
22. In an isosceles right triangle, the hypotenuse
is 10. What is the length of one (1) of the
sides?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. 5 2
E. 10 2 25. In the pentagon, shown below, one interior
angle measures 50 . What is the total
measure of the other 4 interior angles?

23. On the standard  x, y  coordinate plane, A. 130

point A is located at  3, 2  . Point M, the B. 310
midpoint of AB, is located at 1,1 . What are C. 490
the coordinates of point B ? D. 590
670
A.  1, 1 E.

B.  7, 5
C.  3, 4 
D.  2, 1
E.  5, 4 

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26. Which of the following lines has the greatest 29. What is the perimeter of the figure shown
slope? below?
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A. y x  10
2
B. y  3x  1

C. 2 y  8x  5

D. 3 y  6x  4

E. 5x  y  20 A. 19
B. 28
C. 38
D. 90
27. In the standard  x, y  coordinate plane, what E. Cannot be determined
is the slope of the line joining the points
 3,1 and  6, 2  ?
1
A. 
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B. 3
30. A chord 16 inches long is 6 inches from the
1 center of a circle, as shown below. What is
C. 
3 the radius of the circle, to the nearest tenth
1 of an inch?
D.
3

E. 3

28. The ratio of the side lengths for a triangle is

exactly 5:10:12. In a second triangle similar
to the first, the shortest side is 8 inches long.
To the nearest tenth of an inch, what is the 10
A.
length of the longest side of the second
triangle? B. 11
C. 14
A. 6.3
D. 24
B. 7.5
E. 48
C. 16.0
D. 19.2
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Solutions. 7. The correct answer is A.
1. The correct answer is A. If a linear equation is in standard form
The formula for the volume of a cube is V  s3 A
Ax  By  C , the slope is given by  . In the
where s is the length of each edge or side. Since B
V  27 , we have 27  s3 and the only value for given equation, A  3 and B  2 , so the slope
s that satisfies this is s  3 . 3 3
is   .
2 2
2. The correct answer is C.
The formula for the area of a triangle is 8. The correct answer is A.
1 The distance formula is
A  bh , where b is the base, and h is the
2 d  x2  x1 2   y2  y1 2 . Using the given
1
height. We have 24     b  8  . Solving, we coordinates, we have x1  2 , y1  3 , x2  4 ,
2
and y2  5 . Plugging these values in the
find that b  6 .
distance formula gives:
 4   2   5  32   62   82
2
3. The correct answer is D. d
The formula for the volume of a cylinder is
V   r 2 h . Since the diameter of cylinder B is  36  64  100  10 .
12, its volume is V    36  3  108 . The
9. The correct answer is A.
volume of cylinder A is V   16  3  48 .
The area of a trapezoid is given by the formula
Subtracting, 108  48  60 .
1
A  h  b1  b2  . If A  36 , h  4 , and b1  8
4. The correct answer is D. 2
1
, then 36   4 8  b2   36  2 8  b2 
By the Pythagorean Theorem, the hypotenuse
102  82  100  64  164
has a length of 2
 18  8  b2  10  b2 .
 4  41  4 41  2 41 .

The correct answer is C. 10. The correct answer is C.

5.
Solution #1: The formula for the area of a For the viewable portion of the picture, the
width is 20  1.5  18.5 , and the length is
1
circular sector is A  r 2 , where  is the 32  1.5  30.5 . So the area is
2 18.5  30.5  564.25 .
angle measure in radians. Since 60 is
 11. The correct answer is A.
equivalent to radians, we have
3 Note that 6  5  1 and 6  5  11 . By the
1   Triangle Inequality Theorem, the third side
A     36     6 . must satisfy the inequality 1  s  11 .
2 3
Solution #2: The formula for the area of a circle
12. The correct answer is D.
is A   r 2 , so the area of the entire circle is
The equation of a circle with center  h, k  is
1
36 . But 60 is of the degree measure of
6  x  h 2   y  k 2  r 2 . Clearly the center is at
the entire circle, so the area of the sector is  5,5 and the radius is 5, so the equation is
1
6
 36  6 .  x  52   y  52  25 .

6. The correct answer is B. 13. The correct answer is A.

By the Pythagorean Theorem, the diagonal Since each side is of length 2, the distance from
the center to the base is half that value.
(hypotenuse), is 62  62  72  36  2
 36 2  6 2 .

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14. The correct answer is D. 22. The correct answer is D.
The base of the parallelogram is 25 and the If the hypotenuse is given in an isosceles right
vertical height is 12. Therefore the area is triangle, it can be shown that a side length is
A  bh  25 12  300 . hypotenuse
given by . Therefore one of the
2
15. The correct answer is E.
By the Pythagorean Theorem, the hypotenuse is 10 10 2 10 2
side lengths is   5 2.
2
 2x  2
 x 2  4 x 2  x 2  5x 2  x 5 .
2 2 2

23. The correct answer is E.

16. The correct answer is D. Given two points, the midpoint formula is
Since the length, l, is w  12 , and the area is
 x  x y  y2 
given by A  lw , then we have M 1 2, 1
2 
. Since we know the
 2
160  w  w  12  w2  12w  160  0 and the
coordinates of the midpoint, we can make the
solutions to this quadratic equation are 8 and 3  x2
20 . The width is then 8, and the length is two mini-equations, 1  and
2
8  12  20 .
2  y2
1 where  x2 , y2  are the coordinates
17. The correct answer is C. 2
The circumference of a circle is given by of point B. Solving each equation, we have the
C  2 r . Therefore, the ratio of the coordinates for B as  5, 4  .
circumferences is 2    4 : 2    9 . But the 2
on each side of the ratio cancels out, so the 24. The correct answer is B.
resulting ratio is 4 : 9 . Because RHOM is a rhombus, its diagonals
bisect each other at right angles. Consider the
18. The correct answer is B. diagram below:
If AB  BC , then the triangle is isosceles, and
the base angles are congruent. Therefore, the
measure of C  42 .

19. The correct answer is A.

By the Exterior Angle Theorem, the measure of
angle LMO is 135  40  95 . By the Triangle
Sum Theorem, the measure of angle LOM is Because triangle HXR is a 6-8-10 triangle, the
180  40  95  45 . The measure of angle MON measure of HM  6  2  12 .
is then 40 .
25. The correct answer is C.
20. The correct answer is D. The formula for the sum of the interior angles
To ensure that the two equations have an of a convex polygon is given by the formula
infinite number of solutions, we must make the S  180  n  2  where n is the number of sides
first equation look exactly like the second
equation. To do this, we multiply every term of of the polygon. For a pentagon, S  540 . Then
the first equation by 5. Then we have the sum of the other 4 interior angles is
16  5  2n , so n  40 . 540  50  490 .

21. The correct answer is B. 26. The correct answer is E.

Since the circumference of a circle is given by The slope of the line 5x  y  20 is 5, which
C  2 r , we can make the equation is greater than the other 4 equations.
1
6   2 r , so r  27 .
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27. The correct answer is C.
y2  y1
The slope formula is given by . Using
x2  x1
the given coordinates, we have x1  3 , y1  1
, x2  6 , and y2  2 . Plugging these values
into the slope formula, we have
2  1 3 1
  .
6   3 9 3

28. The correct answer is D.

5 12
We make the proportion,  and solve for
8 x
x, so x  19.2 .

29. The correct answer is C.

The total horizontal distance is 10 and the total
vertical distance is 9. Doubling these and
adding them together gives 9  2  10  2  38 .

30. The correct answer is A.

Since the longer leg of the right triangle is half
the length of the chord, its length is 8. That
makes the right triangle a 6-8-10 right triangle,
so r  10 .