April 2023 QAS

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1 . 3 .
Each face of a fair number cube is labeled with a
number from 1 through 6, with a different number
appearing on each face. If the number cube is
rolled one time, what is the probability that the
number 2 will be shown on the top face?

A)

B)
The lines shown model the populations of Iowa
and Louisiana from 1900 to 2020. In what year
does the graph indicate that Iowa and Louisiana C)
had the same population?
A) 1900
D)
B) 1940
C) 1990
D) 2000

2 .
A researcher measured the height of a poodle’s
shoulders from the ground, in centimeters (cm),
as it aged over 10 months. The scatterplot shows
this relationship. A line of best fit for the data is
also shown. 4 .
A car’s fuel efficiency is 30 miles per gallon of
gasoline. During a trip, the car uses 5 gallons of
gasoline. Based on the car’s fuel efficiency, how
many miles did the car travel during the trip?
A) 5
B) 6
C) 35
D) 150

What is the height of the poodle’s shoulders, in cm,

predicted by the line of best fit when the poodle is
5 months old?
A) 18.7
B) 19.4
C) 20.7
D) 21.8

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5 . 8 .
A line in the xy-plane passes through the point (0, 5) The average price of regular gasoline, per gallon,
and has a slope of 7. What is an equation of this line? in the United States in 2001 was $1.42. Each year
from 2001 to 2008, the average price increased by
A) y = 5x – 7
approximately 12% of the previous year’s average
B) y = 5x + 7 price. Which equation best models this situation,
C) y = 7x – 5 where y is the average price, in dollars, of regular
gasoline, per gallon, and x is the number of years
D) y = 7x + 5
since 2001?
A)
6 .
B)
y<x
x>7 C)
What point (x, y) is a solution to the given system of
D)
inequalities in the xy-plane?
A) (0, 1)
B) (3, 2) 9 .
C) (6, 7) 5x + 3y = 7
D) (9, 8) 2x + y = 2
The solution to the given system of equations is (x, y).
What is the value of 7x + 4y ?
7 .
A) 2
B) 7
C) 9
D) 23

10 .
In a certain election, the ratio of electoral votes
received in Maine by Candidate X to those received
by Candidate Y was 3 to 1. The state of Maine had 4
In the given scatterplot, a line of best fit for the electoral votes in this election. How many electoral
data is shown. At x = 20, approximately how much votes did Candidate Y receive in Maine?
greater is the actual y-value than the y-value
predicted by the line of best fit? A) 1
B) 2
A) 3
C) 3
B) 20
D) 4
C) 75
D) 250

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11 . 13 .
There are infinitely many solutions to which of the
following equations?
I. 4(x + 1) + 2 = 4x + 6
II. 4(x + 1) + 1 = 4x + 7

A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II
D) Neither I nor II

The graph shown models the number of area codes

assigned to phone numbers in Illinois from 1947 14 .
through 2009, where x represents the number of A sample of 50 employees from the finance
years after 1947. Which equation represents this department at Company XYZ was selected at
relationship?
random. The 50 employees completed a survey
–x
A) y = 1.02(3.26) about a website’s ease of use, and 72% of them
–x
B) y = 3.26(1.02) thought the website was easy to use. Which of the
x following is the largest population to which the
C) y = 1.02(3.26)
results of this survey can be generalized?
x
D) y = 3.26(1.02)
A) All employees in a finance department in the
United States
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The line graph shows the number of near-Earth B) All employees in Company XYZ
asteroids discovered by the Spacewatch survey C) All employees in the finance department in
from 2003 to 2010. Company XYZ
D) All employees in the sample

15 .

The given equation shows a proportional relationship

between the variables r and s. Which expression is
equivalent to 6r ?
A)
During which period was the increase in the number B)
of near-Earth asteroids discovered the greatest?
A) From 2003 to 2004 C)
B) From 2004 to 2005
C) From 2005 to 2006 D)
D) From 2007 to 2008

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16 . 18 .

Data set P: 12, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 21, 21, 22, 22
Distance Average time
Data set P contains the lengths, in inches, of 11 (miles) (minutes)
objects. The length 12 inches is removed from data
0.16 4
set P to create data set N, which contains the lengths,
in inches, of 10 objects. Which statement best 0.48 12
compares the mean q and the median r of data set P
with the mean s and the median t of data set N? 0.72 18

A) q < s; r > t The table shows the average time t, in minutes, it takes
B) q = s; r > t Oliver to walk a certain distance d, in miles. Which
C) q < s; r = t equation could represent this linear relationship?

D) q = s; r = t A)

B)

C)

D)
17 .

Questions 19 and 20 refer to the following

Which equation has the same solution as the
information.
given equation?
The number of southern white rhinos was 3,800 in 1984.
A)
Due to conservation methods over time, the number of
southern white rhinos increased to 20,405 by 2012. The
B) scatterplot shows the relationship between time, in number
of years since 1984, and the number of southern white
C) rhinos. A line of best fit for the data is also shown.

D)

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19 . 21 .
What is the best approximation for the ratio of
southern white rhinos in 1984 to southern white
rhinos in 2012? What are all possible solutions to the given equation?
A) 1 to 3 A) –25 and 25
B) 1 to 5 B) –5 and 5
C) 1 to 20 C) –25 only
D) 1 to 28 D) 5 only

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20 .
Which value is closest to the slope of the line of best
fit shown?
A) –2,500
B) –650
C) 650
D) 2,500
In the figure shown, points A and B lie on the circle

with radius 1 centered at the origin, O. If the cosine of

∠AOB is , what is the measure, in radians, of

∠AOB ?

A)

B)

C)

D)

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 24 .

Questions 23 and 24 refer to the following Based on the information in the table, what is the
information. average radius, in micrometers, of a hamster oocyte?

Oocytes are a type of cell that can be modeled as a A) 68.4

B) 20.7
sphere. The table shows the surface area, in square
C) 14.2
micrometers , and volume, in cubic micrometers D) 11.7

, based on the average radius for oocytes at the

same stage of development in four types of mammals.

(The surface area of a sphere with a radius of r is ,

and the volume of a sphere with a radius of r is equal to

.)

Mammal Surface area Volume

Mouse 498.76 1,047.4

Hamster 1,720.2 6,708.8

Pig 2,660.3 12,903

Human 4,071.5 24,429

23 .
The volume of a mouse oocyte is approximately
what percent of the volume of a human oocyte?
A) 4.29%
B) 8.16%
C) 12.25%
D) 23.32%

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25 . 27 .

Under certain conditions, the equation 30

The Sun’s mass is 1.989 ✕ 10 kilograms, and
0.04% of its total mass is sulfur. If the total mass
models the time T, in seconds, it takes for a pendulum 30
of sulfur in the Sun is s ✕ 10 kilograms, what is
to complete one cycle, where L is the length, in the value of s ?
A) 0.0007956
meters, of the pendulum. Solving the equation for T
B) 0.007956
yields . Which of the following is the C) 0.07956
D) 0.7956
best interpretation of in this context?

A) The time, in seconds, it takes a pendulum of

length meters to complete one cycle

B) The time, in seconds, it takes a pendulum of

length 9.8 meters to complete one cycle

C) The time, in seconds, it takes a pendulum of 28 .

length 12 meters to complete one cycle x f (x)

–2 –5
D) The time, in seconds, it takes a pendulum of
4 4
length meters to complete one cycle
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Some values of x and their corresponding values of

f (x) for the linear function f are shown in the table.
26 . What is the value of f (6) ?
(x – 5)2 + 1 = 0 A) 7
How many distinct real solutions does the given B) 8
equation have?
C) 9
A) Zero
D) 10
B) Exactly one
C) Exactly two
D) Infinitely many

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29 . 30 j .

For the linear equation y = mx + b, where m and b A fitness membership costs $45 per month. All new
are positive constants, which of the following tables members receive a discount of $20 off the cost of
gives three values of x and their corresponding their first month of membership. Which function c
values of y ? gives the total cost c(t), in dollars, that a new member
pays after t months of membership?
A) x y A) c(t) = 20 + 45t
–2 –2m
B) c(t) = 25 + 45t
1 m
C) c(t) = 20 + 45(t – 1)
0
D) c(t) = 25 + 45(t – 1)

B) x y

–2 –2m + b

1 m+b

C) x y

–2 –2m + b

1 m+b

b 0

D) x y

–2 –2m

1 m

b 0

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31 . 34 .

A list of 10 data values is shown below.

4, 6, 7, 2, 8, 9, 6, 3, 3, 3

What is the mean of the data?

32 .
The dot plot represents a data set.

Line k is tangent to the circle with center O at point

P as shown. What is the slope of line k ?

What is the median of the 19 values in the data set?

33 .=
A bag contains only red, blue, and yellow marbles. 35 .
If a marble is selected at random from this bag, the
probability of selecting a yellow marble is 2 times
the probability of selecting a blue marble, and the
probability of selecting a yellow marble is 6 times For the given functions f and g, r is a constant. If
the probability of selecting a red marble. What is , what is the value of r ?
the probability of selecting a blue marble?
(Express your answer as a decimal or fraction, not
as a percent.)

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 36 . 38 .
The population of a city in 2000 was 2.6 times its
population in 1999. The population of this city
increased by p% from 1999 to 2000. What is the
value of p ?

Line m is shown in the xy-plane, and the point with

coordinates (0.25, r) is on line m. What is the value
of r ?

37 .

The rectangular garden shown has a width of 50 feet

and a length of 45 feet and is surrounded by a paved
path with a uniform width of x feet. If the combined
area of the garden and the paved path is 2646 square
feet, what is the value of x ?

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