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Math Test – No Calculator

25 MINUTES, 17 QUESTIONS

Turn to Section 3 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.

..DIRECTIONS..

Questions 1-13 ask you to solve a problem, select the best answer among four choices, and fill in the
corresponding circle on your answer sheet. Questions 14-17 ask you to solve a problem and enter
your answer in a grid provided on your answer sheet. There are detailed instructions on entering
answers into the grid before question 14. You may use your test booklet for scratch work.

..NOTES..

1. You may not use a calculator.

2. Variables and expressions represent real numbers unless stated otherwise.
3. Figures are drawn to scale unless stated otherwise.
4. Figures lie in a plane unless stated otherwise.
5. The domain of a function f is defined as the set of all real numbers x for which f (x) is also a
real number, unless stated otherwise.

..REFERENCE..

c 2x 60° h
h b 45° x√2 h
x x
r
30° 45° w
b a x√3 x l
1 1 1 2
A = bh a2 + b2 = c2 Special Triangles V= lwh V= πr h
2 3 3

r
h
w r r
h
w
l l
A = lw V = lwh V = πr 2 h A = πr 2 4 3
V= πr
C = 2πr 3
There are 360° in a circle.
The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180°.
The number of radians of arc in a circle is 2π.

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1 3
Madison leaves her house and bikes north at a Bats detect the locations of objects by bouncing
constant speed of 10 miles per hour. If her dad sound waves off of objects, in a process known as
leaves the same house two hours later, driving echolocation. The speed of a sound wave is
north at a constant speed of 15 miles per hour, how approximately 350 meters per second. A bat emits
long will it take him, in hours, to reach Madison? a sound wave towards a tree 525 meters away.
What is the time, in seconds, that it takes for the
A) 2
sound wave to reach the tree?
B) 3
A) 0.5
C) 4
B) 1
D) 5
C) 1.5
D) 2

2
If x – 1 x + 4 = 0, what are the values for x?
4
I. 4
II. 1 w =
8
III. –1
h = 3w
IV. –4

A) I and III An engineer determined that a bridge he is

designing has maximum stability when its length,
B) II and IV
l, width, w, and height, h, are defined by the
C) III and IV equations above. If he wants to build a bridge with
D) I and II a height of 9 meters, what should be the length of
the bridge, in meters?

A) 48
B) 24
C) 12
D) 6

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If the sum of two consecutive integers is 15, what In DNA sequencing, a machine is able to identify
is their product? the sequence of units of DNA, called base pairs. It
costs approximately 10 cents to sequence 1000
A) 36
base pairs. If an investigator would like to
B) 48 sequence a gene consisting of 120,000 base pairs
C) 56 from each of 100 samples, how much would it cost
for him to obtain the sequences?
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A) $120
B) $480
C) $720
D) $1200
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x f (x)
–3 8
–2 3
–1 0 8
0 –1 2x2 – x = 15
1 0
Which of the following is a correct value for x in
the equation above?
Which of the following equations describes the
chart above? A) 3
B) 2
A) f (x) = x – x2
C) –2
B) f (x) = x – 1
D) –4
C) f (x) = x2 – 1
D) f (x) = x2

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The velocity of a ball that is thrown upwards is y
represented by the equation v = –5t2 – 20t + 60,
where v represents velocity and t represents time,
in seconds. After how many seconds does the
velocity of the ball become zero?

A) 2
B) 3 x
(–2, 0) O (4, 0)
C) 6
D) 12

The graph above could be a representation of

which of the following equations?

A) y = x – 1
10
B) y = x2 – 2x – 9
If x = 4y + 3 and y = –2x – 3, what is the value of
C) y = (x – 1)2 – 9
xy?
D) y = x2
A) –1
B) 0
C) 1
D) 3

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If 32x + 2 = 272 , what is the value for x? If 12 × √k = 6a, what is the value of k in terms of
a?
A) 0
B) 1 A) 3a
C) 2 B) 3a2
D) 3 C) 9a2
D) 9a4

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DIRECTIONS .  

Questions 14-17 ask you to solve a problem and enter

your answer in the grid provided on your answer sheet.
When completing grid-in questions:

1. You are required to bubble in the circles for  

your answers. It is recommended, but not
required, that you also write your answer in
the boxes above the columns of circles.
 
Points will be awarded based only on
whether the circles are filled in correctly.

2. Fill in only one circle in a column.

3. You can start your answer in any column as

long as you can fit in the whole answer.

4. For questions 14-17, no answers will be

negative numbers.
2
5. Mixed Numbers, such as 4 , must be
5
gridded as decimals or improper fractions,
such as 4.4 or as 22/5. “42/5” will be read as
“forty-two over five,” not as “four and two-
fifths.”

6. If your answer is a decimal with more

digits than will fit on the grid, you may
round it or cut it off, but you must fill the
entire grid.

7. If there are multiple correct solutions to a

problem, all of them will be considered
correct. Enter only one on the grid.
 

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If the sum of the even integers between 1 and k, f (x) = x2 + d and g (x) = 2x2 , where d is a constant.
inclusive, is equal to 2k, what is the value of k? f (g (2))
If = 4, what is the value of d?
f (2)

15
If a is a non-zero digit in the numbers 1a2a and
17
a31, what is the value of a when
1a2a + a31 = 2659? A

160

30°
B C

What is the length of AC in the diagram above?

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Math Test – Calculator
45 MINUTES, 31 QUESTIONS

Turn to Section 4 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.

..DIRECTIONS..

Questions 1-27 ask you to solve a problem, select the best answer among four choices, and fill in the
corresponding circle on your answer sheet. Questions 28-31 ask you to solve a problem and enter
your answer in a grid provided on your answer sheet. There are detailed instructions on entering
answers into the grid before question 28. You may use your test booklet for scratch work.

..NOTES..

1. You may use a calculator.

2. Variables and expressions represent real numbers unless stated otherwise.
3. Figures are drawn to scale unless stated otherwise.
4. Figures lie in a plane unless stated otherwise.
5. The domain of a function f is defined as the set of all real numbers x for which f (x) is also a
real number, unless stated otherwise.

..REFERENCE..

c 2x 60° h
h b 45° x√2 h
x x
r
30° 45° w
b a x√3 x l
1 1 1 2
A = bh a2 + b2 = c2 Special Triangles V= lwh V= πr h
2 3 3

r
h
w r r
h
w
l l
A = lw V = lwh V = πr 2 h A = πr 2 4 3
V= πr
C = 2πr 3
There are 360° in a circle.
The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180°.
The number of radians of arc in a circle is 2π.

CONTINUE

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Which of the following expressions is equivalent
x y = 2x – 3y
to (3x – 2)(x + 1)?

A) 3x2 – 2
If x and y are integers in the diagram above, what
B) 4x – 2
is the value of –3 –– 4 ?
C) 3x2 – x – 2
D) 3x2 + x – 2 A) –18
B) –6
C) 6
D) 18

2
An athlete throws a javelin, a long metal spear, at a
track and field competition. The javelin’s height in
4
feet, h, as a function of the number of seconds
since it was thrown, t, is modelled by the equation Depreciation is the decrease in value of an item.
h (t) = –16t2 + 128t. What is the height of the Three years ago, Aaron bought a computer for
javelin after 5 seconds? $930. The computer is now worth $570. Assuming
that the value of the computer depreciates linearly,
A) 0 feet what is its yearly depreciation?
B) 8 feet
C) 240 feet A) $120
D) 480 feet B) $180
C) $200
D) $240

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On a house blueprint, 2 feet is represented by 1 y
inch. If a room on the blueprint measures 5 inches (3, 28)
by 6 inches, what is the area of the actual room?

A) 30 square feet
B) 60 square feet
C) 90 square feet
D) 120 square feet
O x

Which of the following equations best describes

the trend line for the scatterplot above?

A) y = 3x2 + 1
6
B) y = x2 + 2
Club Participation at a School C) y = 3x + 1
100 D) y = 3x
Number of Students

80

60

40

20 8
0 Costs Comparison of Tools
Debate Student Orchestra Choir
Council
Cost at John’s Cost at Lin’s
Item
Tools Tools
The graph above shows the student participation
Hammer $15 $18
for 4 school clubs. Each student is allowed to
participate in only one club. If the school has 250 Drill $50 $55
students, how many students are not in a club? Electric saw $30 $25

A) 220
If a distributor receives a 10% discount from
B) 90 John’s Tools and a 15% discount from Lin’s
C) 60 Tools, how much more would they pay, in dollars,
D) 30 to buy a drill and electric saw from John’s Tools
than Lin’s Tools?

A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7

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Questions 9 and 10 refer to the following
information. One byte is a unit of memory size used with
computers. One megabyte contains approximately
Negative and Even Number Distributions 106 bytes and Paul’s computer hard-drive accesses
80 information at a rate of 150 megabytes per second.
Percent Distribution

If Paul wants to work with 5 files on his computer

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that are 2,340 106 bytes each, approximately
40 how long will it take his computer to access them?

20 A) 15.6 seconds
B) 39 seconds
0
Set A Set B Set C C) 1.3 minutes
Negative Numbers Even Numbers D) 78 minutes

The graph above shows the distribution of negative and

even numbers in three sets of numbers.

9
How many sets had more even than negative
numbers?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3

10
If Set B has 200,000 elements, how many more
negative numbers than even numbers would we
expect to find in the set?

A) 25,000
B) 50,000
C) 100,000
D) 155,000

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Questions 14 and 15 refer to the following
5 cent 10 cent 25 cent Total information.
coins coins coins coins
Offer 1 20 15 4 39 Immigration Demographics
Offer 2 25 5 8 38
Total 45 20 12 77
Europe
Maria has been offered an exchange of coin Other
collections for her wood carving. A summary of Asia
the coin collections is found in the table above. If
Africa
she evaluates the offers based only on the face
value of the coins, which collection is Maria most
likely to choose? The pie chart above shows the distribution of
immigrants in a city, based on continent of origin.
A) The coins are worth the same so Maria is
equally likely to pick either one.
B) Offer 1 is worth more than Offer 2, so Maria 14
will pick Offer 1. 25% of the immigrant population originated in
C) Offer 2 is worth more than Offer 1, so Maria which of the following continents?
will pick Offer 2.
A) Asia and Europe
D) Offer 1 has the greater number of coins, so
B) Asia and Africa
Maria will pick Offer 1.
C) Africa and Europe
D) Other

15
20% of the immigrant population from Europe are
from France. If there are a total of 1500
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immigrants in the city, how many immigrants are
During the first month of life, a newborn’s weight from France?
increases by 30%. If a newborn weighs w pounds
when it is one month old, which of the following A) 50 people
expressions represent the baby’s weight at birth? B) 75 people
C) 100 people
A) 0.3 w D) 120 people
B) 1.3 w
w
C)
1.3
1.3
D)
w

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If 10% of a number is 12, then what is the value of
5% of half of the original number? 2x
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4 7x 3x
D) 5
What is the value of the largest angle in the
triangle above?

A) 120 degrees
B) 115 degrees
C) 110 degrees
17
D) 105 degrees
a = –2b – 3
b – a = –24

What is the value of a + b in the system of

equations above?
20
A) –27
B) –9 The average in Set A is 85 and the average in Set
C) 6 B is 65. If the combined average of all the
D) 15 elements in Set A and Set B is 70, and Set A has 5
elements, how many elements are in Set B?

A) 45
B) 30
C) 15
D) 5
18
Which of the following is the sum of 3 consecutive
odd integers?

A) 23
B) 26
C) 105
D) 290

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A species of shark spends 25% of a day, d,
sleeping, and 50% of the remaining time hunting. Age Male Female Total
Which of the following expressions represents how 0-18 years old 56 50 106
many hours in one day are left for other activities? 19-40 years old 108 90 198
3d 41-65 years old 126 135 261
A)
2 66+ years old 90 95 185
3d Total 380 370 750
B)
4
3d The age of a random sample of people from a
C) population is summarized in the table above. The
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whole population consists of 31,000 people. Which
3d
D) of the following statements is true?
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A) We expect that there are 15,200 females in the
population.
B) We expect there to be 5580 females 65 years
old and younger in the population.
C) We expect there to be 9300 females between
19 and 65 years old in the population.
D) We cannot determine the number of females in
the population with the information given.

23
If 2x2 – 2y2 = 72 and x + y = 18 what is the value
of x – y?

A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8

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If √10x + 35 = x + 6 what is/are the value(s) of x f (x) = 2x2 + a

divided by two?
If a is a constant and f (2) + f (3) = f (5), what is
1 the value of a?
A) –
2
7 A) 6
B) –
2 B) 12
1 7 C) 24
C) – and –
2 2
D) 48
1
D) 0 and –
2

27
25 3x + 4y = 12
Employees at a Hospital 4x + 3y = –5

Years What is the value of x + y, in the system of

Nurse Doctor Technician Total
Worked equations shown above?
Less than 2 20 10 20 50
A) 4
2 to 5 15 15 10 40 B) 3
6 to 10 13 18 18 49 C) 2
More than 10 12 10 12 34 D) 1
Total 60 53 60 173

The table above shows the years worked by

employees at a hospital. What is the probability
that a technician has worked for 6 or more years?

A) 90%
B) 75%
C) 65%
D) 50%

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DIRECTIONS .  

Questions 28-31 ask you to solve a problem and enter

your answer in the grid provided on your answer sheet.
When completing grid-in questions:

1. You are required to bubble in the circles for  

your answers. It is recommended, but not
required, that you also write your answer in
the boxes above the columns of circles.
 
Points will be awarded based only on
whether the circles are filled in correctly.

2. Fill in only one circle in a column.

3. You can start your answer in any column as

long as you can fit in the whole answer.

4. For questions 28-31, no answers will be

negative numbers.
2
5. Mixed Numbers, such as 4 , must be
5
gridded as decimals or improper fractions,
such as 4.4 or as 22/5. “42/5” will be read as
“forty-two over five,” not as “four and two-
fifths.”

6. If your answer is a decimal with more

digits than will fit on the grid, you may
round it or cut it off, but you must fill the
entire grid.

7. If there are multiple correct solutions to a

problem, all of them will be considered
correct. Enter only one on the grid.
 

CONTINUE

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If x2 + 5 = 7 and x2 + 5 k = 21, what is the There are 42 integers in a group. If there are 5
value of k? times as many odd integers as there are even
integers, how many numbers are even integers?

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Questions 30-31 refer to the following information.
The violin has another string, called the D string,
One Hz is a measure of frequency and is equal to one which is tuned to resonate at 293.7Hz. If the
cycle per second. The A string on a violin is tuned to a lengths of a violin A and D string are decreased by
resonant frequency of 440Hz. If the string length is half, what is the difference in resonant frequency
decreased, its resonant frequency, measured in Hz, is between these two strings? (Round your answer to
increased. The decrease in string length changes the the nearest Hz.)
v
string frequency according to the equation f = ,
2l
where f is the frequency in Hz, v is a constant, and l is
the string length. An application of this equation is
demonstrated in the diagram below:

String with a resonant frequency of 440Hz

The same string is decreased by half, resulting in a

resonant frequency of 880Hz

30
If the length of an A string on a violin is decreased
by one quarter, what is the resonant frequency of
the string, rounded to the nearest Hz?

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1. C 6. C 11. C 16. 16
2. B 7. D 12. C 17. 320
3. C 8. A 13. D
4. B 9. A 14. 6
5. C 10. C 15. 8

SECTION 4
1. D 9. C 17. C 25. D
2. C 10. B 18. C 26. C
3. A 11. C 19. D 27. D
4. A 12. C 20. C 28. 3
5. D 13. C 21. C 29. 7
6. D 14. B 22. C 30. 587
7. A 15. B 23. A 31. 293
8. A 16. B 24. A

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