Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Mitsu purchased a basketball hoop for her driveway from a sporting goods store.
After the sales tax rate of 6% was applied, the total cost came to $148.40. How much money would
Mitsu have saved if she had used a coupon good for a 10% discount?
A | $140.00 | C | $14.84 | B | $8.40 | D | $133.56 |
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The table below shows the cost of making a long distance call based on the
length of the call. Long Distance
Rates | Time (minutes) | Cost | 5 | $0.65 | 6 | $0.74 | 7 | $0.83 | 8 | $0.92 | 9 | $1.01 | 10 | $1.10 | | |
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Refer to the table of long distance rates. How much would a long distance call
that lasts 13 minutes cost?
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The Shengs rented a minivan for their family vacation. When they returned from
vacation, the total bill for the van was $545. The standard weekly rate from the rental company is
$325 plus $55 for each additional day of usage. How many additional days did the Shengs have the
minivan?
A | 4 days | C | 5 days | B | 3 days | D | 6 days |
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A company that manufactures containers for powder has changed the container.
Below are the new and old versions of the packaging for the powder.  The company wishes
to make a new package with double the volume of the old package. Both containers are 12 centimeters
tall. What must the radius of the new package be?
A | 8 centimeters | C | 5 centimeters | B | 2.8 centimeters | D | 4 centimeters |
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Fitness experts rely on a calculation called the Basal Metabolic Index (BMI) to
determine whether a person is overweight. The BMI is calculated using a formula, which for a person
68 inches tall is given by  , where w is the person’s weight in pounds
and B is the BMI. Which of the following equations is equivalent to  ?
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Suppose a number cube labeled from 1 to 6 is rolled and the spinner below is
spun one time. What is the probability of rolling a number less than 4 and spinning a B?  
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The table shows the number of students in each grade who participate in foreign
language clubs at Meadowlark High School. Each student participates in only one club. Foreign Language
Clubs | Language | 9th Grade | 10th Grade | 11th Grade | 12th Grade | | Spanish | 14 | 15 | 9 | 11 | | German | 13 | 13 | 11 | 6 | | French | 6 | 10 | 5 | 9 | | | | | |
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Which grade has the highest number of students who participate in foreign
language clubs?
A | 10th grade | C | 11th grade | B | 12th grade | D | 9th grade |
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8
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The dimensions of a sailboat’s mainsail are shown below. What is the
height of the sail? 
A | 24 feet | C | 24.6 feet | B | 26 feet | D | 27 feet |
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What are the vertices of Triangle A¢B¢C¢ after Triangle ABC is reflected across the y-axis? 
A | A¢(2, –4), B¢(–2, –1), C¢(6,
2) | C | A¢(4, 2), B¢(1, –2), C¢(–2,
6) | B | A¢(–4, –2), B¢(–1, 2), C¢(2,
–6) | D | A¢(4, 2), B¢(–2, 1),
C¢(2, 6) |
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Lusita is taking night classes to learn English as a second language. The
classroom has the dimensions shown below. 
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The local fire code specifies that rooms can have no more than one occupant per
7 square feet of space. According to this code, if each linear unit of the coordinate grid
represents 3.1 feet, what is the maximum number of occupants the classroom can hold?
A | 46 occupants | C | 15 occupants | B | 5 occupants | D | 48 occupants |
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A bicycle rental company charges customers a deposit of $4.00 plus an hourly
rate as shown in the graph. What is the slope of the line joining these points, and what does the
slope represent? Bicycle Rental
Rates |  | |
A | The slope is 2.5. This means that a customer used the bicycle for 2.5
hours. | B | The slope is 4. This represents the deposit of $4.00. | C | The slope is 2.5.
This represents the rental charge of $2.50 per hour. | D | The slope is 4. This represents the rental
charge of $4.00 per hour. |
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In the figure below, a square is inscribed inside of a circle creating four
equally sized regions. Which of the following expressions could be used to determine the area of the
shaded region? 
A | square feet | C | square
feet | B | square feet | D | square
feet |
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How many gallons of water will it take to completely fill the child’s
swimming pool shown below? Use 3.14 for pi and round your answer to the nearest tenth. (Hint:  .) 
A | 140.9 gallons | C | 563.7 gallons | B | 18.8 gallons | D | 176.1 gallons |
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Refer to the ingredients needed for the cookie recipe. How many cups of flour
would be needed to bake 80 cookies?
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Eric can drive his car 116 miles on 4 gallons of gasoline. At this
rate, how far can he drive on a full tank of 13 gallons?
A | 406 miles | C | 261 miles | B | 35.7 miles | D | 377 miles |
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The Great Pyramid of Giza originally had a height of about 150 meters. If a
scale model of the pyramid is built as shown below, what will be the height of the model? Round your
answer to the nearest tenth if necessary. 
A | 41.7 centimeters | C | 750 centimeters | B | 30 centimeters | D | 26.7 centimeters |
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The school athletic boosters are making pennants. Each pennant is cut in the
shape of a triangle 5 feet long and 1 foot high.  How many square yards of fabric are
needed to make 300 pennants (assuming no waste)?
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Which of the following symbols will make a true sentence when inserted in the
blank?  ____ 0.5385
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When a soccer ball is kicked straight up into the air with an initial velocity
of v feet per second, the height of the ball, in feet, after t seconds can be
found using the formula  . Write an equation that can be used to find the height
of the soccer ball after 1.5 seconds.
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A safety engineer calculates the minimum length of a guy wire supporting a radio
antenna to be  meters long. Between what two consecutive integers
does  lie on a number line?
A | 19 and 20 | C | 22 and 23 | B | 20 and 21 | D | 18 and 19 |
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The table shows the mass (in kilograms) of several planets. Mass of
Planets | Planet | Mass
(kilograms) | | Neptune | | | Jupiter | | | Uranus | | | Mars | | | Source: http://www.noblemind.com | | |
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Which of the four planets listed in the table has the smallest mass?
A | Uranus | C | Mars | B | Neptune | D | Jupiter |
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A small electronic scale in Mrs. Peterson’s chemistry classroom has a
precision of  grams. Express this precision as a number using
standard notation.
A | 0.000025 grams | C | 0.0000025 grams | B | 2.5 grams | D | 2,500,000 grams |
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Express  as a fraction in reduced form.
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What is the multiplicative inverse of  ?
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Cathy can rent a chainsaw from a home improvement store for a deposit of $12
plus $4.50 per hour of rental time. She could buy the same chainsaw from the store for
$120. Neglecting sales tax, for how many hours would Cathy have to rent the chainsaw in order for the
rental charge to exceed the purchase price?
A | 24 hours | C | 27 hours | B | 23 hours | D | 19 hours |
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Mrs. Sheng is stocking a freshwater aquarium with tropical fish for her science
classroom. To prevent the tank from getting too crowded, she doesn’t want to have more than
2 fish for every 5 gallons of water. Using this guideline, estimate the maximum number of
fish that Mrs. Sheng can put in the aquarium. 
A | about 20 fish | C | about 10 fish | B | about 28 fish | D | about 42 fish |
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Jhan is driving 256 miles to his grandparents’ house for the
holidays. So far he has driven 16 miles in 14.6 minutes. If he continues to drive at this
average rate of speed, estimate how long the entire trip will take.
A | about 4 hours | C | about 8 hours | B | about 3 hours | D | about 5 hours |
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Five points are plotted on the number line as shown below. 
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Which two points will result in a negative number when multiplied
together?
A | B and B | C | D and B | B | D and
D | D | E and
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What is the best estimate of the area of the figure below? Each square
represents one square unit. 
A | 27 square units | C | 5 square units | B | 21 square units | D | 16 square units |
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An overhead view of a farm pasture is shown below. A farmer wants to know the
approximate number of cows that could fit in the pasture. The farmer has determined that 4 cows could
fit into the part of the pasture that is shaded below. If the entire pasture is filled with cows, how
many cows should the farmer estimate can fit into the pasture? 
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