Directions: Use 20 or fewer minutes to answer the following 5 questions.

You may fill in the circles next

to the correct answers or write your answers in boxes. Refer to the formula sheet on page 593 as needed.
YOU MAY NOT USE YOUR CALCULATOR ON THIS SECTION.

1. Mike borrowed $400 from his brother for six months. He agreed to pay simple interest at the annual
rate of 5 percent. Including interest and principal, how much will Mike have paid his brother at the
end of the six months?
A. $10
B. $120
C. $410
D. $500

2. What is the value of the expression 3(2x - y) + (3 + x)2 when x = 4 and y = 5?

A. 49
B. 58
 C. 61
D. 82

3. Which of the following is equal to the expression below?

(3x + 2y)(5x - 6y)

A. 8x - 4y

B.

C.

D.

4. John needs to replace the boards on a 22-foot section of his fence. He plans to place the boards as
shown below.
Note: Not drawn to scale.

If the boards are inches wide, how many boards should he buy to cover the distance?

A. 4
B. 12
C. 48
D. 121

5. What is the value of this expression?

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Directions: Use a maximum of 1 hour and 35 minutes to answer the following 41 questions. You may fill
in the circles next to the correct answers or write your answers in boxes. Refer to the formula sheet on
page 593 as needed. YOU MAY USE YOUR CALCULATOR ON THIS SECTION.

6. A storage shelf has room for only two containers on the bottom shelf. The heaviest boxes should be
placed on the bottom. Which two boxes should be placed on the bottom shelf? Write the letters of the
boxes in the spaces below.
7. Brad’s average golf score after six rounds was 81. For the first five rounds his scores were 78, 86,
82, 81, and 82. What was his score on the sixth round?

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8. A kayaker spends 2 hours paddling up a stream from point A to point B, quickly turns her kayak
around, and immediately heads back downstream. It takes her only 1 hour to float back down the
stream from point B to point A. If points A and B are 6 miles apart, what was the kayaker’s average
rate of speed in miles per hour?
A. 12 mph
B. 6 mph
C. 4 mph
D. 2 mph

9. In quadrilateral ABCD, side AB is parallel to side CD. Sides AD and BC are not parallel. What is the
area of the figure to the nearest square centimeter?
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10. Simplify the following expression:

A.

B. x(x − y)

C.

D.

11. A scientist measures the outside temperature at noon each day over a 3-day period.

Day Temperature at Noon (°F)

Saturday -1
Sunday 2
Monday -4

What was the average temperature on these three days? Place an x on the number line below to
represent your answer.

12. What is the value of 47?

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13.

A B C
1 -2 -4 1
2 8 4 3
3 5 2 -1

In the computer spreadsheet above, is equal to which of the

following? (Hint: On a spreadsheet,* means multiplication.)
A. -22
B. -12
C. 12
D. 22

14. Simplify the expression:

A.

B.

C.

D.

15. The perimeter of the trapezoid below is 50. What is its area?

A. 12
B. 60
C. 120
 D. 150

16. Risa wants to order business cards. A printing company determines the cost (C) to the customer
using the following function, where number of boxes of cards and

number of ink colors.

If Risa orders 4 boxes of cards printed in 3 colors, how much will the cards cost?
A. $214.40
B. $168.00
C. $144.40
D. $102.40

17. The graph of the equation is a line that passes through

points C and D on the coordinate plane. Which of the following points also lies on the graph of the
equation?

A. (3, 1)

B.
 C. (5, 3)
D. (10, 6)

18. Which of the following equations correctly describes the line on the graph?

A.

B.

C.

D.

19. What is the 6th term in the sequence below?

1, 3, 7, 15, 31, __, 127

A. 62
 B. 63
C. 68
D. 77

20. Evening tickets to a play are $24.50 each. Tickets for the afternoon show are $19 each. Janice wants
to buy 6 tickets. Arrange terms from the options below to construct the expression Janice would use
to determine how much less she would spend if she chooses an afternoon show instead of an evening
show. (You do not need to use all of the terms offered as options. Use any term only once.)

21. In a certain state, the legislature has 100 seats. In 2010, Party X held 54 seats. In the 2012 election,
the party gained two seats. If, in the 2014 election, Party X loses 6 seats, but gains 2 seats in the
2016 election, what will the absolute change in the number of seats held by Party X from 2010 to
2016 be?

Write your answer in the box below.

22. What is the surface area of the cylinder below?

A.

B.
 C.

D.

23.

A.

B.

C.

D.

24. Customers of Paul’s Beauty Supply can make purchases online, from a catalog, or in the store.

About how much more did the company make from catalog sales than from online sales in March?
A. $35,000
B. $65,000
C. $130,000
D. $195,000

25. Which of the following is a graph of the inequality ?

26. At what point does the line with the ​equation intersect with the line with

the equation ?

A.

B.

C. (0, 3)
D. (2, 7)

27. A pole is supported by a cable as shown. The cable is attached to the ground 9 feet from the base of
the pole, and it is attached to the pole 12 feet above the ground.

Which of the following expressions could be used to find the length of the cable?

A.
 B.

C.

D.

28. Meg is an interior designer who is looking to place two chairs against an accent wall. She has four
different chairs from which to choose, each a different color: yellow, red, green, and blue. How many
different combinations of chairs can Meg use in her design?

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29. The Whitmans are trying to pay off their credit card debt, so they developed the following budget
based on their monthly take-home pay.

If the Whitmans’ monthly take-home pay is $2500, about how much do they plan to pay each month
on their credit card debt?
A. $600
B. $450
C. $300
D. $240

30. A market sells all varieties of pasta at a rate of 4 boxes for $5.00. Jennifer needs 3 boxes of ziti and 3
boxes of spaghetti. At this rate, how much will she spend for the pasta?

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31. Inge has been receiving a variety of advertisements in the mail. In order to figure out if the number
of advertisements was increasing over time, she kept track of how many advertisements she received
 each week over an eight-week period. This is her record:

The dot plot below is based on the table Inge created, above. However, it is incomplete. Place
additional dots on the dot plot until it accurately reflects Inge’s records over the eight week period.

32. If the area of circle O is 36π, what is its diameter?

A. 6
B. 6π
C. 12
D. 18

33. In 2011, Karen’s base salary was $52,500, and she earned an end-of-year bonus of $6,250. In 2012,
her base salary was raised to $56,300 and her end-of-year bonus was $4,100. What was the percent
increase or ​decrease in her overall earnings from 2011 to 2012?

Write your answer in the box below. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

34. Imtaez works as a server in a restaurant. On a certain night, the servers at his restaurant can earn a
50 cent bonus each time the dinner special is ordered. In order to qualify for the bonus, a server
must submit at least 10 dinner special orders. Complete a linear equation that models the total
bonus a server can expect to earn based on the number of dinner specials ordered, where b is the
total bonus in dollars and d is the number of dinner specials ordered.

Arrange terms from the options below to complete the equation you would use to determine how
much Imtaez will receive as a bonus if he sells at least 10 dinner specials. (You may not need to use
all of the terms offered as options. Use any term only once.)

35. Place a dot on the coordinate plane below to represent the solution to the following sys​tem of
equations:
36. A bag contains 12 red, 3 blue, 6 green, and 4 yellow marbles. If a marble is drawn from the bag at
random, what is the probability that the marble will be either blue or yellow?
A. 7%
B. 12%
C. 25%
D. 28%

37. The right cone shown below has a base with a radius of 6.4 cm.

To the nearest cubic centimeter, what is the volume of the cone? (Use 3.14 for π.)
A. 40
B. 81
 C. 129
D. 514

38. Ten artists have entered an art show. There are three prizes to be awarded in the art show: first
prize, second prize, and third prize. How many possible ways could those prizes be awarded among
the ten artists?

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39. Archie has made a huge pot of chili. He cannot eat it all himself, so he is going to share some with
his neighbors and family. Archie will give of the chili to his parents. He will give of it to his

neighbor Cecilia. He will give another of it to his neighbor Chang. How much of the chili will
Archie have left over? Place a dot on the number line below to reflect the correct answer.

40. At the end of baseball season, 5 percent of the children enrolled in a local youth baseball program
will be chosen to play in the state tournament. If 12 children will be chosen to play in the
tournament, how many children are enrolled in the program?
A. 60
B. 120
C. 240
D. 600

41. Fabio has his own computer repair business. He uses the following guidelines to estimate how long a
project will take.
Install operating system: 1 hour

Replace motherboard: hours

Reimage hard drive: 2 hours

Upgrade memory: 20 minutes
Install new hard drive: 45 minutes
Install sound card: 30 minutes

Install video card: 30 minutes

Fabio needs to install a new hard drive and an operating system for a customer. If Fabio charges $65
per hour, what will he charge the customer for his time?
A. $94.25
B. $105.00
C. $113.75
D. $146.25

42. There are approximately 1,335,000,000 cubic kilometers of water in Earth’s oceans. Which of the
following expresses that number in scientific notation?

A.

B.
 C.

D.

43. What is the slope of the line shown below?

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44. One number is 12 more than 3 times another number. The sum of the two numbers is −20. What are
the numbers?
A. 8 and 12
B. 8 and −12
C. −2 and −18
D. −8 and −12

45. Which of the following pairs of numbers is a solution to the equation

A. −6 and 3
 B. −2 and 9
C. −3 and 6
D. −9 and 2

46. Match the solutions to the equations.

Equation Value of the Variable

50
−8
−7
11

End of Mathematical Reasoning Test

Answers and explanations begin on page 716.

Social Studies Practice Test

Directions: Use 65 minutes to answer the following 34 questions. You may fill in the circles next to the
correct answers or write your answers in boxes or on lines as indicated.

Question 1 is based on the following paragraph and graph.

When the value of exported goods—those sold abroad—is greater than the value of imported goods—
those bought from foreign nations—there is a favorable balance of trade. On the other hand, when
imports are greater than exports, there is an unfavorable balance of trade.