SAT PRACTICE TEST 1

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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommends that adults

engage in 2.5 hours per week of vigorous exercise. A local health
society conducts a survey to see if people are meeting this goal.
They ask 100 people with gym memberships how many minutes of
exercise they engage in per week. A er analyzing the data, the
health society finds that the average respondent exercises
142 minutes per week, but the margin of error was approximately
36 minutes. The society wants to lower this margin of error. Using
which of the following samples instead would do so?
 (A) 50 people with gym memberships
(B) 50 people randomly selected from the entire adult population
(C) 100 people with gym memberships, but from a variety of gyms
(D) 200 people randomly selected from the entire adult
population

2. As a general rule, businesses strive to maximize revenue and

minimize expenses. An office supply company decides to try to cut
expenses by utilizing the most cost-effective shipping method. The
company determines that the cheapest option is to ship boxes of
ballpoint pens and mechanical pencils with a total weight of no
more than 20 pounds. If each pencil weighs 0.2 ounces and each
pen weighs 0.3 ounces, which inequality represents the possible
number of ballpoint pens, b, and mechanical pencils, m, the
company could ship in a box and be as cost-effective as possible?
(There are 16 ounces in one pound.)

(A) 0.3b + 0.2m < 20 × 16

(B) 0.3b + 0.2m ≤ 20 × 16

(C)

(D)

3.
 Where will line Q shown in the graph intersect the x-axis?

(A) 13
(B) 14
(C) 15
(D) 16

4. The function f(x) is defined as f(x) = 2g(x), where g(x) = x + 5. What

is the value of f(3) ?

(A) −4
(B) 6
(C) 8
(D) 16

5. A printing company uses a color laser printer that can print 18

pages per minute (ppm) when printing on thick cardstock paper.
 One of the company’s best sellers on the Internet is business cards,
which are sold in boxes of 225 cards. The cards are printed 10 per
page, then cut and boxed. If a real estate company has 12 full-time
agents and orders two boxes of cards per agent, how many minutes
should it take to print the cards, assuming the printer runs
continuously?

(A) 15
(B) 20
(C) 30
(D) 45

6. If 0.002 ≤ x ≤ 0.2 and 5 ≤ y ≤ 25, what is the maximum value of ?

(A) 0.04
(B) 0.4
(C) 4
(D) 40

7. Following a study of children in the United States under three years

old, the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that there is a
positive correlation between the amount of time spent watching
television and the likelihood of developing an attention deficit
disorder. Which of the following is an appropriate conclusion to
draw from this statement?
 (A) There is an association between television time and attention
disorders for American children under three years old.
(B) There is an association between television time and attention
disorders for all children under three years old.
(C) An increase in attention disorders is caused by an increase in
television time for American children under three years old.
(D) An increase in attention disorders is caused by an increase in
television time for all children under three years old.

8.

A bicyclist is training for the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, one of Europe’s

oldest road bicycle races. The line graph above shows the number
of miles she biked each week for eight weeks. According to the
graph, what was the greatest change (in absolute value) in the
 weekly number of miles she biked between two consecutive
weeks?

(A) 7
(B) 8
(C) 9
(D) 10

9. If a line that passes through the coordinates (a − 1, 2a) and (a, 6)

has a slope of 5, what is the value of a ?

(A) −2

(B)

(C)

(D) 2

10. An occupational health organization published a study showing an

increase in the number of injuries that resulted from elderly people
falling in the bathtub. In response to this increase, a medical supply
company decided to drop its price on bathtub li s from $450 to
$375, hoping to still break even on the li s. The company breaks
even when its total revenue (income from selling n bathtub li s) is
equal to its total cost of producing the li s. If the cost C, in dollars,
of producing the li s is C = 225n + 3,150, how many more of the li s
 does the company need to sell at the new price to break even than
at the old price?

(A) 7
(B) 12
(C) 14
(D) 21

Questions 11 and 12 refer to the following information.

A zoo is building a penguin exhibit. It will consist of an underwater area

and a land area. The land area is made of thick sheets of ice. An outline of
the total space covered by the ice is shown below. A pipe 2 feet in diameter
runs the full length of the exhibit under the ice. A substance known as ice-
cold glycol continuously runs through the pipe to keep the ice frozen.

11. About how many cubic feet of water are needed to create the ice
portion of the exhibit?
 (A) 1,850
(B) 2,150
(C) 2,450
(D) 3,100

12. The zoo is planning to hire a company to fill the space with water.
The company plans to use two 4-inch hoses that can each pump
60 gallons of water per minute. About how long should it take to fill
the space? (There are 7.48 gallons of water in 1 cubic foot of ice.)

(A) 1 hour
(B) 1 hour, 30 minutes
(C) 1 hour, 55 minutes
(D) 2 hours, 15 minutes

13. Which of the following quadratic equations has no solution?

(A) 0 = −2(x − 5)2 + 3

(B) 0 = −2(x − 5)(x + 3)
(C) 0 = 2(x − 5)2 + 3
(D) 0 = 2(x + 5)(x + 3)

Questions 14 and 15 refer to the following information.

Three airplanes depart from three different airports at 8:30 AM, all traveling
to Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD). The distances the planes
must travel are recorded in the following table.

From Distance to Chicago (ORD)

Kansas City (MCI) 402

Boston (BOS) 864

Miami (MIA) 1,200

14. The plane traveling from Boston traveled at an average speed of

360 mph. The plane traveling from Kansas City arrived at 10:34 AM.
How many minutes before the plane from Boston arrived did the
plane from Kansas City arrive?

(A) 20
(B) 28
(C) 42
(D) 144

15. For the first of the trip, the plane from Miami flew through heavy
winds and dense cloud cover at an average speed of 200 mph. For
the remaining portion of the trip, the weather was ideal, and the
plane flew at an average speed of 450 mph. Due to a backlog of
planes at ORD, it was forced to circle overhead in a holding pattern
for 25 minutes before landing. At what time did the plane from
Miami land in Chicago?
 (A) 12:00 PM
(B) 12:25 PM
(C) 12:50 PM
(D) 1:15 PM

16. If for all real values of t, which of the following is

not in the range of h(t) ?

(A) 1
(B) 3
(C) 9
(D) 10

17.

If (a, b) represents the solution to the system of equations shown in

the graph and a = −3b , then which of the following could be the
value of a + b ?
 (A) −9
(B) 0
(C) 3
(D) 6

18.

A car manufacturer tested two types of thermostats to determine

which one it wanted to use in a new model of car. The more
consistently the thermostat engages the engine’s cooling fan, the
better the cooling system performs over the long run. The double
dot plot above shows the test results, given the following
conditions:

Zero indicates that the cooling fan engaged at exactly the

temperature at which the thermostat was set (the target
temperature).
 Negative numbers indicate that the fan engaged below the target
temperature.
Positive numbers indicate that the fan engaged above the target
temperature.
The safe range for the fan to engage is 10 degrees above or
below the target temperature.

Which of the following best states which thermostat the car

manufacturer is likely to choose and why?

(A) Thermostat A because the median of the data is 0, and the

range is greater than that of Thermostat B
(B) Thermostat B because the median of the data is 0, and the
range is less than that of Thermostat A
(C) Thermostat A because the mode of the data is 0, which
indicates a more consistent thermostat
(D) Thermostat B because the data is bimodal (has two modes),
which indicates a more consistent thermostat

19. If p and q represent the zeros of a quadratic function and p + q =

−3, which of the following could be the factored form of the
function?

(A) f(x) = (x − 3)(x + 3)

(B) f(x) = (x − 4)(x + 1)
(C) f(x) = (x − 1)(x + 4)
(D) f(x) = (x − 6)(x + 3)
20.

The figure above shows the graph of p(x) − 4. What is the value of
p(0) ?

(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 7
(D) 11

21.
 Geraldine is making a simple AC electric generator for a science
project using copper wire, cardboard, a nail, and magnets. The first
step in building the generator is wrapping the wire around
rectangular prism made from the cardboard and connecting it to a
small lightbulb, as shown in the figure. If Geraldine has 18 feet of
wire and needs to leave 3 inches on each end to connect to the
lightbulb, how many times can she wrap the wire around the
cardboard prism?

(A) 21
(B) 28
(C) 35
(D) 42

22.
 The bar graph above shows the vegetable harvest, in tons, at an
organic produce farm during July and August. Of the following,
which best approximates the percent increase in the harvest of
squash at this farm from July to August?

(A) 67%
(B) 60%
(C) 53%
(D) 40%

23.
 Arianna and her brother Liam both walk home from school each
day, but they go to different schools. The figure shows their trip
home on Monday. Based on the graph, which of the following
statements is true?

(A) It took Liam longer to walk home because his school is farther
away.
(B) It took Arianna longer to walk home because her school is
farther away.
(C) Arianna and Liam walked home at the same rate.
(D) Arianna walked home at a faster rate than Liam.

24. If line L passes through the points (−4, −8) and (8, 1), which of the
following points does line L not pass through?

(A) (0, −5)

(B) (4, −1)
(C) (12, 4)
(D) (16, 7)

25.
Unemployed Employed Totals

Female 12 188 200

Degree

Female 44 156 200

No Degree
 Unemployed Employed Totals

Male 23 177 200

Degree

Male 41 159 200

No Degree

Totals 120 680 800

The table above shows the results of a sociological study

identifying the number of males and females with and without
college degrees who were unemployed or employed at the time of
the study. If one person from the study is chosen at random, what is
the probability that that person is an employed person with a
college degree?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

26.
 Typically, when people contract an infectious disease, their
immune system immediately begins to produce extra white blood
cells to fight the disease. The scatterplot shows the white blood
cells reproducing in an infected patient, along with several values
found when modeling the data using a graphing calculator.
According to this model, how many white blood cells per microliter
of blood did the patient have before he contracted the disease?

(A) 3,400
(B) 8,500
(C) 10,000
(D) 13,600

27. A rodeo is building a circular arena. The arena will have a total area
of 64π square yards and can either be le open for rodeo
 competitions or divided into 12 equal sections through the center
for auctions. When holding auctions, the rodeo has an average of
4 bulls and 8 horses for sale. A bull cannot be placed in a section
directly beside another section containing a bull, and all edges of
these sections must be reinforced with strong steel to keep the
bulls from getting out. Which of the following represents how much
steel in yards the rodeo will need to reinforce the four bull sections?

(A) 32 π

(B) 64 π

(C)

(D)

28. Lena bought a saltwater fish tank that holds 400 gallons of water.
She started filling the tank on Friday, but then stopped a er putting
only 70 gallons of water in the tank. On Saturday, she bought a
bigger hose and began filling the tank again. It took her 1 hour and
50 minutes on Saturday to completely fill the tank. Which equation
represents the number of gallons of water in the fish tank on
Saturday, given the amount of time in minutes that Lena spent
filling the tank?
 (A) y = 3x + 70
(B) y = 3x + 330
(C) y = 70x + 330
(D) y = 110x + 70

29. A self-storage company has three sizes of storage units. The ratio of
small to medium units is 3:5. The ratio of medium to large units is
3:2. The company analyzes its business model and current
consumer demand and determines that it can benefit from utilizing
larger economies of scale. In other words, it decides to grow its
business based on current economic conditions and plans to build
a second, larger self-storage building. The company’s research
indicates that the new market would benefit from having only two
sizes of storage units, small and large, in the same ratio as its
current facility. What ratio of small to large units should it use?

(A) 1:1
(B) 3:2
(C) 5:3
(D) 9:10

30.

The equation shown above represents the following scenario: A

chemical laboratory uses two air purifiers to clean the air of
 contaminants emitted while working with hazardous materials.
One is an older model, and the other is a new model that is
considerably more energy efficient. The new model can clean the
air of contaminants three times as quickly as the older model.
Working together, the two air purifiers can clean the air in the lab in
7 hours. Which of the following describes what the term in the
equation represents?

(A) The portion of the air the older model can clean in 1 hour

(B) The portion of the air the new model can clean in 1 hour

(C) The time it takes the older model to clean the air by itself

(D) The time it takes the older model to clean of the air by itself

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.

What is the solution to the equation shown above?

32. If , what is the value of n ?

33. When a thri store gets used furniture in good condition to sell, it
researches the original price and then marks the used piece down
by 40% of that price. On the first day of each of the following
months, the price is marked down an additional 15% until it is sold
or it reaches 30% of its original price. Suppose the store gets a piece
of used furniture on January 15th. If the piece of furniture costs
$1,848 new, and it is sold on March 10th of the same year, what is
the final selling price, not including tax? Round your answer to the
nearest whole dollar.

34.
 Many sailboat manufacturers sell kits that include instructions and
all the materials needed to build a simple sailboat. The figure
shows the finished dimensions of a sailboat from such a kit. The
instructions indicate that cos x° = b , but do not give the value of b.
What is the value of b ?

35.

In the figure shown, line B (not shown) is parallel to and passes

through the point (0, –1). If line B also passes through the point
(2, y), what is the value of y ?

36. Recycling of certain metals has been a common practice dating

back to preindustrial times. For example, there is evidence of scrap
bronze and silver being collected and melted down for reuse in a
number of European countries. Today, there are recycling
companies and even curbside collection bins for recycling. As a
general rule, recycling companies pay for metals by weight.
Suppose a person brings in 3 pounds of copper and receives $8.64,
 and 24 ounces of nickel and receives $10.08. If another person
brings in equal weights of copper and nickel, what fractional
portion of the money would he receive from the copper? (There are
16 ounces in 1 pound.)

Questions 37 and 38 refer to the following information.

Body mass index, or BMI, is one of several measures used by doctors to

determine a person’s health as indicated by weight and height. Low-
density lipoprotein, or LDL cholesterol, known as the “bad” cholesterol, is
another health indicator and consists of fat proteins that clog arteries.
Following are the results of a study showing the relationship between BMI
and LDL for 12 individuals and the line of best fit for the data.
 37. How many of the 12 people have an actual LDL that differs by 10 or
more mg/dL from the LDL predicted by the line of best fit?

38. According to the line of best fit, what is the closest whole number
BMI approximation for a person that has an estimated LDL level of
140 mg/dL ?

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