SAT PRACTICE TEST 2

Math Test
55 Minutes — 38 Questions
CALCULATOR SECTION

Turn to Section 4 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in

this section.

Directions
For this section, solve each problem and decide which is the best of
the choices given. Fill in the corresponding oval on the answer
sheet. You may use any available space for scratch work.

Notes:

1. Calculator use is permitted.

2. All numbers used are real numbers.
3. All figures used are necessary to solving the problems that they
accompany. All figures are drawn to scale EXCEPT when it is
stated that a specific figure is not drawn to scale.
4. Unless stated otherwise, the domain of any function f is assumed
to be the set of all real numbers x, for which f(x) is a real number.
Information:

The sum of the degree measures of the angles in a triangle is 180.

The number of degrees of arc in a circle is 360.
The number of radians of arc in a circle is 2π.

1.
 The Florida Department of Wildlife caught and tagged 10 adult
female alligators as part of an effort to protect this endangered
species. They took various measurements and readings related to
body size and health. The total body length is plotted against the
tail length in the scatterplot shown above, along with a line of best
fit. Which of the following equations best models the data?

(A) y = 0.5x
(B) y = 2x
(C) y = 0.4x + 1
(D) y = 0.6x − 1

2.
 Which of the following lists correctly orders the lines in the figure
above according to their slopes, from least to greatest?

(A) R, T, S, U
(B) S, U, R, T
(C) S, R, U, T
(D) U, S, R, T

3.
 Which of the following is a solution to the system of inequalities
shown in the figure above?

(A) (−5, 2)
(B) (−2, 5)
(C) (2, 5)
(D) (5, 2)

4. The American political system is largely a two-party system. In fact,

only six candidates who were not associated with either the
Republican or the Democratic Party have been elected governor in
any state since 1990. In one such election, the ratio of votes
received for the Independent candidate to the Democratic
candidate to the Republican candidate was approximately 19:18:13.
If 510,000 votes were cast in the election, how many more votes
were cast for the Independent candidate than for the Republican
candidate?
 (A) 6,000
(B) 10,200
(C) 61,200
(D) 193,800

5.
Selection Method Number of States

Election 22

Gubernatorial appointment 11

Legislative appointment 2

Missouri Plan 15

There are four ways in which state judges are selected for their
positions. One is by election, another is appointment by the
governor (usually with the confirmation by the state legislature),
and a third is appointment by the state legislature. The final way is
a hybrid of the last two, called the Missouri Plan, in which a
nonpartisan legislative committee recommends a list of candidates
and the governor chooses from this list. The table above shows the
number of states that engage in each process for the highest court
of the state, usually called the state Supreme Court. What percent
of states select judges using the Missouri Plan?
 (A) 17%
(B) 30%
(C) 33%
(D) 43%

6. A botanist collects and models some data and is able to determine

that the number of germinated seeds of a certain plant is linearly
correlated to the amount of rainfall during the previous month,
according to the equation s = 28.5r + 83. In this equation, s is the
number of seeds germinated, and r is the amount of rainfall in
inches. In a certain geographic region that the botanist is studying,
197 seeds germinated. Approximately how many inches of rainfall
did that area receive during the previous month?

(A) 3.1
(B) 4
(C) 7
(D) 9.8

7. A dendrologist (a botanist who studies trees exclusively) is

examining the way in which a certain tree sheds its leaves. He
tracks the number of leaves shed each day over the period of a
month, starting when the first leaf is shed. He organizes the data in
a scatterplot and sees that the data can be modeled using an
exponential function. He determines the exponential model to be
f(x) = 6(1.92) x , where x is the number of days a er the tree began to
 shed its leaves. What does the value 1.92 in the function tell the
dendrologist?

(A) The number of leaves shed almost doubles each day.

(B) The number of leaves shed almost doubles every six days.
(C) The number of leaves le on the tree is reduced by about 92%
each day.
(D) The number of leaves le on the tree is reduced by about 92%
every six days.

8.

Which inequality symbol would make the above statement true?

(A) ≤
(B) ≥
(C) <
(D) >

9.
Price per Pencil Projected Number of Units Sold

$0.20 150,000
 $0.25 135,000

$0.30 120,000

$0.35 105,000

$0.40 90,000

$0.45 75,000

Generally, the price of an item is a good indicator of how many

units of that item will be sold. The lower the price, the more units
will be sold. A marketing department develops a table showing
various price points and the projected number of units sold at that
price point. Which of the following represents the linear
relationship shown in the table, where x is the price and y is the
number of units sold?

(A) y = 0.03x + 150,000

(B) y = 300,000x + 75,000
(C) y = −300,000x + 90,000
(D) y = −300,000x + 210,000

10. A mailing supply store sells small shipping boxes in packs of 8 or 20.
If the store has 61 packs in stock totaling 800 small shipping boxes,
how many packs have 20 boxes in them, assuming all the packs are
full?
 (A) 26
(B) 32
(C) 35
(D) 40

11. Given that , which of the following is equivalent to the

sum i 125 + i 125 ?

(A) i 14
(B) i 250
(C) 2i 45
(D) 2i 250

12.

Which of the following is equivalent to the expression above?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D) 3x 8 (−3x 2 − x + 5)
13.

The graph above shows a delivery truck’s distance from the

company’s warehouse over a two-hour period, during which time
the delivery people made two deliveries and then returned to the
warehouse. Based on the graph, which of the following statements
could be true?

(A) Each delivery took 30 minutes to complete, not including

driving time.
(B) The location of the second delivery was about 70 miles from
the warehouse.
(C) The truck traveled about 18 miles from the time it le the
warehouse until it returned.
(D) The second delivery was about 18 miles farther from the
warehouse than the first delivery.
 Questions 14 and 15 refer to the following information.

Plants are capable of cross-pollinating with related but different plants.

This creates a hybrid plant. Sometimes, a hybrid plant is superior to the
two different plants from which it was derived. This is known as “hybrid
vigor.” Scientists can examine the DNA of a plant to see if it is a hybrid. This
can be valuable information because if the plant appears superior, it would
be beneficial to develop more of these hybrids. An agricultural scientist
examines an orchard that has several types of apple trees and orange trees
to see which ones are hybrids. Some of the information she collected is
shown in the table below.

Apple Trees Orange Trees Total

Hybrid 402

Non-hybrid 118

Total 628

14. Based on the data, if 45% of the apple trees are not hybrids, how
many apple trees are hybrids?

(A) 50
(B) 132
(C) 226
(D) 240
15. The scientist wants to study the orange trees to check for hybrid
vigor. If she chooses one orange tree at random, what is the
probability that it will be a hybrid?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

16.

What is the result of dividing the two expressions above?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

17.
 x y

−1 7

0 5

1 3

2 1

If graphed, the ordered pairs in the table above would form a line.
Where would this line intersect the x-axis?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D) 5

18. Mount Fuji in Japan was first climbed by a monk in 663 AD and
subsequently became a Japanese religious site for hundreds of
years. It is now a popular tourist site. When ascending the
mountain, tourists drive part of the distance and climb the rest of
the way. Suppose a tourist drove to an elevation of 2,390 meters
and from that point climbed to the top of the mountain, and then
descended back to the car taking the same route. If it took her a
total of 7 hours to climb up and back down, and she climbed at an
 average rate of 264 vertical meters per hour going up and twice that
going down, approximately how tall is Mount Fuji?

(A) 1,232 meters

(B) 2,464 meters
(C) 3,622 meters
(D) 3,776 meters

19.

If (x, y) is a solution to the system of equations above, what is the

value of x 2 ?

(A) 12
(B) 20
(C) 60
(D) 144

20. If M = 3x 2 + 9x − 4 and N = 5x 2 − 12, then what is 2(M − N) ?

(A) –2x 2 + 9x + 8
(B) – 4x 2 + 18x − 32
(C) – 4x 2 + 18x + 16
(D) 8x 2 + 9x − 16
21.

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge in Louisiana is the longest

bridge in the United States, at 23.83 miles long. The histogram
above shows the distribution of the lengths, in miles, of 28 of the
longest bridges in the United States, including Lake Pontchartrain
Causeway Bridge. Which of the following could be the median
length of the 28 bridges represented in the histogram?

(A) 5.9
(B) 7.9
(C) 9.2
(D) 9.9

22. In the United States, the original full retirement age was 65. The
retirement age has since been pushed to 66 and will soon move to
67, as life expectancies go up. The Social Security Administration
 periodically conducts studies regarding retirement age. One such
study focused on whether or not retiring early lowers a person’s life
expectancy. The study found a weak positive correlation between
retirement age and life expectancy. If data from the study were
graphed in a scatterplot, which of the following statements would
be true?

(A) The slope of the line of best fit would be a large positive
number.
(B) The slope of the line of best fit would be a negative number
close to 0.
(C) The data points would follow, but not closely, an increasing
line of best fit.
(D) The data points would be closely gathered around an
increasing line of best fit.

23. A student is doing a scale drawing of a woolly mammoth on a piece

of poster board for her presentation on the last ice age. She was
surprised to find that the woolly mammoth, reaching a height of
only about 10 feet, 6 inches, was actually smaller than today’s
African elephant. Even more surprising is the fact that the woolly
mammoth’s tusks averaged 11.5 feet in length. If the student draws
the mammoth 14 inches tall on her poster, approximately how
many inches long should she make the tusks? (There are 12 inches
in 1 foot.)
 (A) 12.78
(B) 15.0
(C) 15.33
(D) 16.1

24. Johanna picked 3 pounds of strawberries at a “pick-your-own”

patch. At this particular patch, the cost is $1.50 for the pail and
$3.99 per pound of strawberries picked. If a linear equation is
created to represent the situation and written in the form
y = mx + b, which piece of the equation would the value 13.47 in this
scenario most likely represent?

(A) b
(B) m
(C) x
(D) y

25. In an effort to decrease reliance on fossil fuels, some energy

producers have started to utilize renewable resources. One such
power plant uses solar panels to create solar energy during the day
and then shi s to natural gas at night or when there is cloud cover.
One particularly bright morning, the company increases the
amount of its power typically generated by solar panels by 60%.
During a cloudy spell, it decreases the amount by 30%, and then
when the sun comes back out, it increases the amount again by
75% before shutting the panels down for the night. What is the net
 percent increase of this company’s reliance on solar panels during
that day?

(A) 75%
(B) 96%
(C) 105%
(D) 165%

26. Zoos use various methods for determining how to feed different
animals. Sometimes they use age, weight, or, usually in the case of
snakes, length. If a snake that is 2 feet, 6 inches long receives
12 grams of frog mash per feeding, how many grams should a
snake that is 1 meter in length get? (Use the approximate
conversion 1 foot = 0.3 meters.)

(A) 5
(B) 13
(C) 14.5
(D) 16

27.
 Which of the following gives the length of chord DF in the figure
above?

(A) 2 cos(1.7)
(B) 2 sin(1.7)
(C) 4 cos(0.85)
(D) 4 sin(0.85)

28. If y = 12 − x and , what is the value of ?

(A) −1

(B)

(C)

(D) 33
29.

If a quadratic equation is used to model the data shown in the

scatterplot above, and the model fits the data exactly, which of the
following is a solution to the quadratic equation?

(A) 28
(B) 32
(C) 34
(D) 36

30. If h is a function defined over the set of all real numbers and h(x −
4) = 6x 2 + 2x + 10, then which of the following defines h(x) ?
 (A) h(x) = 6x 2 − 2x + 114
(B) h(x) = 6x 2 − 46x + 98
(C) h(x) = 6x 2 + 2x + 98
(D) h(x) = 6x 2 + 50x + 114

Directions
For questions 31-38, solve the problem and enter your answer in
the grid, as described below, on the answer sheet.

1. Although not required, it is suggested that you write your answer

in the boxes at the top of the columns to help you fill in the
circles accurately. You will receive credit only if the circles are
filled in correctly.
2. Mark no more than one circle in any column.
3. No question has a negative answer.
4. Some problems may have more than one correct answer. In such
cases, grid only one answer.
5. Mixed numbers such as must be gridded as 3.5 or .
(If is entered into the grid as , it will be interpreted
as , not .)
6. Decimal answers: If you obtain a decimal answer with more
digits than the grid can accommodate, it may be either rounded
or truncated, but it must fill the entire grid.
31. The Bar Exam is a test given in each state to determine whether or
not a law school graduate is competent to practice law. The
American Bar Association surveyed 3,000 law school graduates
across the country who passed the bar exam in 2000. Of those
surveyed, 720 were not practicing law in 2012. If 55,200 graduates
passed the bar in 2000, about how many of them were practicing
law in 2012, assuming the sample was a good representation of the
population of law school graduates who passed the bar in 2000?
Round to the nearest thousand and enter your answer in terms of
thousands. (For example, enter 18,000 as 18.)

32. In recent years, car manufacturers have started producing hybrid

vehicles, which run on both electricity and gasoline, resulting in a
significantly higher gas mileage. Suppose the odometer of a hybrid
 car, which shows how many miles the car has traveled, reads
4,386 miles. If the car averages 48 miles to the gallon of gas and
currently has 12 gallons in the tank, what should the odometer
reading be when the tank is empty?

33.

If the equation of the graph shown above is y = 2(x + 3)2 + 10, what
is the y-intercept of the graph?

34.
 Many cities try to work “greenspaces” into their city planning
because living plants help filter the city’s air, reducing the effects of
pollution. The figure above shows the plans for a new greenspace
around City Hall, which will be created by converting portions of
the existing parking lots. If the width of each parking lot is the same
as the width of the City Hall building, how many thousands of
square feet of greenspace will there be a er the conversion? Round
to the nearest thousand and enter your answer in terms of
thousands. (For example, enter 14,000 as 14.)

35. Rasha volunteers at a charity that helps feed the homeless. He

collects donations and then uses the money to buy food for care
packages. This week, he collected $145. Each care package will
include canned vegetables and bags of rice in the ratio 3:1. The
cans cost $0.89 each, and the bags of rice cost $3.49 each. Using the
given ratio, what is the maximum number of complete
vegetable/rice care packages Rasha can make?
 36. A subway car on the New York City subway travels at an average
speed of 17.4 miles per hour. Train cars on the Chicago L travel at
an average speed that is 30% faster than that of the NYC subway.
The DC Metro travels at an average speed that is 30% faster than
that of the Chicago L. Marc rode the NYC subway from one stop to
another and it took 6 minutes; Lizzie rode the Chicago L from one
stop to another and it took 4.8 minutes; and Darius rode the DC
Metro, which took 3.6 minutes between stops. How many miles did
the person who traveled the shortest distance between stops
travel? Round to the nearest tenth of a mile.

Questions 37 and 38 refer to the following information.

Mercury is a naturally occurring metal that can be harmful to humans. The

current recommendation is for humans to take in no more than
0.1 microgram for every kilogram of their weight per day. Fish generally
carry high levels of mercury, although certain fish have higher mercury
content than others. Fish, however, are healthy sources of many other
nutrients, so nutritionists recommend keeping them in the human diet.
The figure below shows the average mercury content of several types of
fish.
37. If a person weighs 82 kilograms, how many grams of snapper can
he safely consume per day? Round your answer to the nearest
gram.

38. Suppose in a week, a person regularly eats one portion of each type
of the fish shown in the bar graph, except the fish with the highest
mercury content. What is this person’s average daily mercury
consumption, in micrograms, assuming a portion size of
100 grams? Round your answer to the nearest microgram.