Mathematics Test

Time: 60 minutes for 60 questions

Directions: Each question has five answer choices. Choose the best answer for each question, and
then shade in the corresponding oval on your answer sheet.

1. Jackson worked 25 hours and received 5. In the following figure, the circle centered
$225. At the same rate of pay, how much at N has a radius of 4. What is the area of
would he make if he worked 40 hours? the shaded region?
(A) $300
(B) $325
(C) $350
(D) $360
(E) $400

2. What is the missing number in the

sequence 1, 5, 10, 16, 23, 31, __?
(F) 37 N

(G) 38
(H) 39
(J) 40
(K) 41

3. If x = 6 and y = –2, what is the value of

3xy + 2x2 – y3?
(A) 44 (A) 3π

(B) 48 (B) 6π

(C) 50 (C) 9π

(D) 52 (D) 12π

(E) 56 (E) 16π

4. Noreen recently took a job helping people 6. Tara’s three bowling scores in a tournament
register to vote. The job has a mandatory were 167, 178, and 186. What was her
10-day period of probation during which her average score for the tournament?
success rate is strictly monitored. On her (F) 176
first day, she registered 30 people. Then, for (G) 177
each of the next 9 days, she registered 4
more people than she did on the previous (H) 178
day. How many people did she register alto- (J) 179
gether during her probationary period?
(K) 180
(F) 300
(G) 340
(H) 480
(J) 560
(K) 600

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 7. What is the value of k if ? 12. What is the value of x if x2 – 5x – 14 = 0
and x > 0?
(A) 0.2
(F) 2
(B) 2
(G) 4
(C) 2.2
(H) 5
(D) 2.8
(J) 7
(E) 4.7
(K) 9
8. Which of the following is equivalent to
–8(x – 2) < 3x – 6? 13. If , then n =
(F) x < 2
(A) 6
(G) x > 2
(B) 7
(H) x ≥ –2
(C) 9
(J) x < –2
(D) 11
(K) x > –2
(E) 13
9. How many different positive integers are
14. If the height of an equilateral triangle is 9,
factors of both 28 and 42?
what is its area?
(A) 1
(F) 27
(B) 2
(G) 54
(C) 3
(H) 81
(D) 4
(J)
(E) More than 4
(K)
10. What is the slope of a line that includes the
points (–4, 1) and (10, –6)? 15. In the following figure, what is the value of
y in terms of x?
(F) 2
(G)
100˚
(H)

(J) x˚ y˚

(K) (A) x + 80

11. If 3x + 5y = 4, which of the following is (B) 80 – x

equivalent to the expression (6x + 10y) (C) x + 100
(100x + 100y)?
(D) x – 100
(A) 100x + 100y
(E) 100 – x
(B) 200x + 200y
16. If 15% of n is 300, what is 22% of n?
(C) 400x + 400y
(F) 400
(D) 800x + 800y
(G) 440
(E) 1,600x + 1,600y
(H) 480
(J) 525
(K) 550

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 17. What is the formula of a line that is 20. If f(x) = x2 + 9 and g(x) = 24 + 4x, what is the
perpendicular to and includes value of ?
the point (3, 4)?

(A) (F) 0.75

(G) 0.8
(B)
(H) 1.2
(C) y = 3x + 5 (J) 1.25

(D) y = –3x + 5 (K) 1.75

(E) y = –3x + 13 21. In the following figure, what is the value of

x in terms of y?
18. Two values of m satisfy the equation
|5m – 11| – 3m = 9. What is the result when
you multiply these two values together?
(F) 2.5 x
(G) 2.75 y
(H) 3.2
(J) 3.75
3y
(K) 4.25
(A) 10y
19. In the following figure, what is the midpoint
of ? (B) 10y2
(C)
V
(1,8) (D)
(E)

22. Two variables, v and w, are inversely

proportional such that when v = 7, w = 14.
What is the value of w when v = 2?
(F) 1
(G) 4
(H) 14
(J) 28
U (K) 49
(–3,–7)
23. The ratio of adults to girls to boys on a
(A) class field trip was [Link]. If the trip included
6 more boys than girls, how many adults
(B) were with the group?
(A) 3
(C) (B) 4
(C) 6
(D)
(D) 8
(E) (E) 12

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 24. In the following figure, line a and line b are 26. If , then
parallel and pass through the points
shown. What is the equation for line b? (F)

lin
(G)
ea
(0,5) (H)

(J)
lin
eb (8,0)
(K)

(0,–3) 27. If pq = 3, then p3q4 + p4q5 =

(A) 12q
(B) 7p + 9q
(C) 12p + 20q
(F) (D) 96p
(E) 108q
(G)
28. Jane ran around the perimeter of a
(H) rectangular park at a constant rate of
10 feet per second. The park has an area
of 67,500 square feet, and its length is
(J) exactly three times its width. For how
many seconds did Jane run?
(K) (F) 60
25. A bag contains 7 black socks, 12 white (G) 120
socks, and 17 red socks. If you pick one (H) 240
sock at random from the bag, what is the
(J) 360
probability that it will NOT be white?
(K) 480
(A)
Use this information to answer Questions 29
(B) and 30: Danielle’s phone plan charges her $30
per month for the first 200 minutes and then
(C) $0.10 per minute for each subsequent minute.

(D) 29. Which of the following functions takes an

input of any whole number value of x ≥ 200
and outputs the value for f(x) as the amount
(E) of dollars Danielle would pay for x minutes
of phone usage?
(A) f(x) = 0.1x + 10
(B) f(x) = 0.1x + 20
(C) f(x) = 0.1x + 30
(D) f(x) = 0.1x + 200
(E) f(x) = 0.1x + 230

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 30. If Danielle paid exactly $100 last month, 34. What is the determinant of the matrix
how many minutes did she use?
?
(F) 700
(G) 800
(F) 0
(H) 900
(G) 12
(J) 1,000
(H) |0|
(K) 1,200
(J) |6|
31. What is the area of 䉭RST in the (K) |12|
following figure?
35. In the following figure, what is the
S length of ?

K = (12,3)
15 13

R T
9 U

(A) 84 J = (–12,–7)

(B) 91 (A) 24
(C) 96 (B) 25
(D) 105 (C) 26
(E) 120 (D) 27
32. Antoine bought a new electric guitar that (E) 28
cost $588.60 after 9% sales tax was added.
What was the price of the guitar without tax? 36. If
(F) $536
(G) $540 (F)

(H) $542 (G)

(J) $545
(K) $548 (H)

33. Which of the following points on the (J)

xy-graph is the x-intercept of the
equation y = 2x – 8?
(K)
(A) (0, 4)
(B) (0, )
(C) (4, 0)
(D) (–4, 0)
(E) ( , 0)

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 37. A 25-foot ladder stands against a vertical 40. Which of the following is a possible value
wall at an angle of n degrees with the of x if 5x2 – 10x + 4 = 0?
ground. If , how far is the base of (F)
the ladder from the wall? (G)
(A) 12
(B) 13 (H)

(C) 14
(J)
(D) 15
(E) 16 (K)
38. In the following figure, if the dimensions of
the trapezoid are as shown and the area of 41. If you multiply a number by 3 and then
the trapezoid is 144, what is the value of x? add 40, the result is the same as if you first
add 17 and then multiply by 2. What is the
result if you subtract 9 from the number
6x
and then multiply by 4?
(A) –60
4x
(B) –72
(C) –84
12x
(D) –108
(F) 2 (E) –124
(G) 3
42. If 7x + 4y = 18 and 3x + y = –3, what is the
(H) 4 value of x + y?
(J) 6 (F) 9
(K) 8 (G) 11
(H) 12
39. Ansgar is writing a novel. He writes seven
days a week. On each of those days he (J) 14
writes for at least 4 hours but never more (K) 15
than 8 hours. Last week, he wrote for
exactly 46 hours. What is the maximum
number of days on which he could have
written for 8 hours?
(A) 2 days
(B) 3 days
(C) 4 days
(D) 5 days
(E) 6 days

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 43. In the following figure, the area of the 44. In the following figure, the area of the
shaded region is 20% of the area of the large square is 81. What is the area of
whole circle centered at P. The angle the shaded square?
shown measures d degrees. What is
its measurement in radians? x 2x

2x x

d˚
P
x 2x

2x x

(F) 45
(G)
(A) (H)
(J)
(B)
(K)

(C) 45. Let f(x) = x2 + 10x + 2. If g(x) is a transforma-

tion that moves f(x) both one unit up and
(D) one unit to the right, then g(x) =
(A) x2 + 8x – 6
(E) (B) x2 + 9x + 3
(C) x2 + 10x – 6
(D) x2 + 11x + 3
(E) x2 + 12x + 6

46. If , what is the value of a?

(F) 0.01
(G) 0.1
(H) 1
(J) 10
(K) 100

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 47. A password for a computer system requires 50. The following figure shows a cylindrical
exactly 6 characters. Each character can be tank whose diameter is 3 times the length
either one of the 26 letters from A to Z or of its height. The tank holds approximately
one of the ten digits from 0 to 9. The first 231.5 cubic meters of fluid. Which of the
character must be a letter and the last following answer choices most closely
character must be a digit. How many approximates the height of the tank?
different possible passwords are there?
(A) less than 107 3h
(B) between 107 and 108
(C) between 108 and 109 h
(D) between 109 and 1010
(E) more than 1010

48. On the xy-plane, what is the area of a circle

with this equation: (x + 3)2 + (y – 4)2 = 49? (F) 2 meters
(F) 5π (G) 3 meters
(G) 7π (H) 4 meters
(H) 25π (J) 5 meters
(J) 49π (K) 6 meters
(K) 125π 51. Paulette, Quentin, and Rosie each donated
money to a charity. Paulette gave as much
49. Which of the following is equal to sin x sec x? money as Quentin and Rosie gave together.
(A) tan x If Quentin had given three times more than
he gave, he would have given $40 more
(B) cot x
than Paulette. And if Rosie had given $20
(C) cos x tan x less, she would have given half as much
(D) cos x csc x as Paulette. How much did Paulette give?

(E) cot x csc x (A) $80

(B) $120
(C) $160
(D) $200
(E) $240

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 To answer Questions 52 and 53, use the following graph, which provides information about
the number of new clients five salespeople registered last month.

Zach

Yolanda

Xavier

Wanda

Victoria

5 10 15 20 25

52. What percentage of the new clients did 53. Suppose that next month Victoria registers
Yolanda register? twice as many clients as she did this month
(F) 18% and that each of the other four salespeople
registers the same number of clients as he or
(G) 20% she did this month. In this case, what percent-
(H) 22% age of clients will Victoria have registered?
(J) 24% (A) 36%
(K) 25% (B) 40%
(C) 44%
(D) 48%
(E) 50%

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 54. In the following figure, the regular octagon 57. The following figure shows f(x), which
has a side with a length of 1. What is the includes points L, M, and N plus the line
area of the shaded region? segments and . Which of the follow-
ing functions is equivalent to f(x)?

f(x)
L = (2,4) N = (4,4)

M = (3,3)

(F)
(G)

(H)

(J) (A) f(x + 6)

(B) f(x – 6)
(K) (C) f(6 – x)
(D) –f(x + 6)
55. If , with a > 0, b > 0, and c > 0,
(E) –f(x – 6)
what is the value of a in terms of b and c?
(A) 58. If log9 n = and n > 0, what is the
(B) value of ?
(C) (F) 3
(G)
(D)
(H)
(E) (J)
(K)
56. At 10:00, Angela starts from her home and
runs at a constant pace to Kathleen’s house, 59. In the complex numbers, where , the
which is exactly 2 miles away. Immediately, conjugate of any value a + bi is a – bi. What
she and Kathleen turn around and walk back is the result when you multiply 2 + 7i by
to Angela’s house exactly 4 miles an hour its conjugate?
slower than Angela ran. When they arrive
(A) 45
at Angela’s house, the time is 10:45. At what
speed did Angela run? (B) –45
(F) 6 miles per hour (C) 45i
(G) 6.5 miles per hour (D) 53
(H) 7 miles per hour (E) 53i
(J) 7.5 miles per hour
(K) 8 miles per hour

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 60. Jacob works as a lifeguard at a local pool. (H)
At the beginning of a 12-hour overnight
shift, the pool was full, and Jacob began
draining it. After 2 hours, the pool was
completely empty. He spent 3 hours clean-
ing the pool and then began filling it up
again. The pool finished filling just as his
shift ended. Which of the following graphs
accurately describes the amount of water
in the pool throughout Jacob’s shift?

(F)

(J)

(G)

(K)

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