Middle School MATHS 1

1) Short Answer:
How many degrees are in one-third of a right angle?

ANSWER: 30
2) Short Answer:
Round the number 535,279 to the nearest ten-thousand:
ANSWER: 540,000
3) Short Answer:
In a right triangle, what is the name for the side opposite the 90º angle?
ANSWER: HYPOTENUSE
4) Short Answer:
Rounded to the nearest meter, find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if the legs measure 5 and 12 meters?
ANSWER: 13 (Solution: 52 + 122 = c2; c = 13)
5) Short Answer:
What is the name for any segment with one endpoint at the center of a circle and the other endpoint on the circle?
ANSWER: RADIUS (ACCEPT: RADII)
6) Short Answer:
1 rd
Rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth, convert to a decimal:
3
ANSWER: 0.3333 (ACCEPT: .3333)
7) Short Answer:
What is the exact circumference, in centimeters, of a circle whose radius is 3 centimeters?
ANSWER: 6π
8) Short Answer:
1 3 5
Change each of the following 3 fractions, respectively, to equivalent fractions with a denominator of 30: 3; 5; 6
10 18 25
ANSWER: 30; 30 ; 30
9) Short Answer:
Every triangle has how many vertices?
ANSWER: 3
10) Short Answer:

If the perimeter of a triangle is 45 centimeters and the lengths of two of its sides are 16 and 12 centimeters, find the length
of the third side, in centimeters:
ANSWER: 17
11) Short Answer:

What is the measure, in degrees, of each angle in an equilateral triangle?
ANSWER: 60 (ACCEPT: 60, 60, 60)
12) Short Answer:

125
Reduce the following fraction to a proper fraction in lowest terms:
1000
1
ANSWER:
8
13) Short Answer:
Find the volume, in inches cubed, of a rectangular solid whose dimensions are 3-inches by 5-inches by 8-inches:
ANSWER: 120
14) Short Answer:

Convert 150% into a mixed fraction in lowest terms:
1
ANSWER: 1 2
15) Multiple Choice:

Minuends and subtrahends are used in which of the following mathematical operations:
W) addition
X) subtraction
Y) multiplication
Z) division
ANSWER:
X) SUBTRACTION
16) Short Answer:

If the area of a square field is 1,600 square feet, how many feet long is one of its sides?
ANSWER: 40
17) Short Answer:

What is the identity element for addition on the integers?
ANSWER: 0
18) Short Answer:

The sum of two numbers is 16 and their product is 55. What are the two numbers?
ANSWER: 11; 5 (in any order)
19) Short Answer:

12 4
Evaluate the following, giving your answer as a proper fraction in simplest terms: (− 8
) (− 12)
ANSWER: ½
20) Short Answer:

Find the area, in meters squared, of a parallelogram whose base measures 8 meters and height measures 10 meters:
ANSWER: 80 (Solution: A = bh = 80 m2)
21) Short Answer:

What is the degree measure of a semicircle?
ANSWER: 180
22) Short Answer:

How many degrees are in the 4th angle of a quadrilateral whose other 3 angles are 850, 950, and 1000?
ANSWER: 80
23) Short Answer:

The equation (2 + x) + y = 2 + (x + y) best illustrates what basic property of addition?
ANSWER: ASSOCIATIVE
24) Short Answer:
Change the decimal 0.88 to a fraction in lowest terms:
22
ANSWER: 25
25) Short Answer:

In the real numbers, a number times its multiplicative inverse equals what?
ANSWER: 1
26) Short Answer:

Find the elapsed time, in hours and minutes reduced to their lowest terms, between 12:15 AM and 5:05 PM:
ANSWER: 16 HOURS 50 MINUTES
27) Short Answer:

What is the mathematical term for coplanar lines that never intersect?
ANSWER: PARALLEL
28) Short Answer:

2 5 1
What is the least common denominator of the following 3 fractions: ; ;
3 6 5
ANSWER: 30
29) Short Answer:

1
Find the reciprocal of 105
5
ANSWER:
51
30) Short Answer:

5
Convert 3 into percent, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent:
ANSWER: 166.7 (must be exact)

Which of the following is NOT true:
W) an irrational number is one that cannot be expressed as the ratio of integers
X) fractions equal to 1 are called mixed fractions
Y) the numerator is less than the denominator in a proper fraction
Z) a composite number is a positive integer greater than 1 that is not prime
ANSWER:
X) FRACTIONS EQUAL TO 1 ARE CALLED MIXED FRACTIONS
32) Short Answer:

290
Reduce the following fraction to a mixed fraction in lowest terms:
25
3
ANSWER: 11 5

0.143 is closest in value to which of the following fractions:
W) 1/7
X) 3/9
Y) 2/5
Z) 5/8
ANSWER:
W) 1/7
34) Short Answer:

1 13
Evaluate the following and give your answer as a mixed fraction in lowest terms: 62 × 25
19
ANSWER: 1150
35) Short Answer:

Convert 0.000328 × 10–6 into proper scientific notation:
ANSWER: 3.28 × 10–10
36) Short Answer:

How many numbers from 1 through 30 are multiples of 3?
ANSWER: 10

Which of the following is an expression for the perimeter of a rectangle if the length equals 10A and the width equals 6B:
W) 10A × 6B
X) 20A + 12B
Y) 2(20A) + 2(12B)
Z) 10A2 + 6B2
ANSWER:
X) 20A + 12B
38) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in dollars and cents, if 2 Frisbees cost $16.50, how much will 5 Frisbees cost?
ANSWER: $41.25
39) Short Answer:

Simplify the following expression by using the Distributive Property: –3(2x – 6y + 3)
ANSWER: –6x + 18y – 9 (ACCEPT: 18y – 6x – 9)
40) Short Answer:

If exterior angles at two of the vertices of a triangle are 70º and 145º, what is the measure of an exterior angle at the third
vertex, in degrees?
ANSWER: 145

Which of the following is the exact interval notation for all real numbers greater than or equal to –10 and less than 5:
W) (–10, 5] (read as: open parenthesis, negative 10, comma, 5, close bracket)
X) [–10, 5] (read as: open bracket, negative 10, comma, 5, close bracket)
Y) [–10, 5) (read as: open bracket, negative 10, comma, 5, close parenthesis)
Z) (–10, 5) (read as: open parenthesis, negative 10, comma, 5, close parenthesis)
ANSWER:
Y) [–10, 5) (note: if student interrupts, accept: “bracket, negative or minus 10, 5 parenthesis) (Solution: bracket for numbers
included in the set; parenthesis for # not included in the set)
42) Short Answer:

Name all of the following 5 numbers that are NOT prime numbers: 2; 5; 17; 33; 37
ANSWER: 33
Which of the following is undefined:
W) 2 ÷ 0
X) 0 ÷ 2
Y) 0 – 0
Z) 02
ANSWER:
W) 2 ÷ 0
44) Short Answer:

23 3
Add the following 2 fractions and give your answer as a mixed fraction in lowest terms: 2
+ 24
1
ANSWER: 144
45) Short Answer:

What is the length, in inches, of one side of a square if the diagonal measures 7√2 ?
ANSWER: 7
46) Short Answer:

If the area of a rectangle is 200 centimeters squared and the length is 20 centimeters, what is the perimeter of the
rectangle, in centimeters?
ANSWER: 60 (Solution: 200 = (20)(w), w = 10; P = 2(20) +2(10) = 60 cm)
47) Short Answer:

If a line has a slope of 10, what is the slope of every line that is perpendicular to it?
1
ANSWER: – 10 (ACCEPT: –0.1)
48) Short Answer:

Consider an isosceles triangle whose vertex angle measures 20º. Find the measure of one of the EXTERIOR angles, in
degrees, at the base of the triangle:
ANSWER: 100
49) Short Answer:

If a car travels at a rate of 50 miles per hour, what is the distance, in miles, traveled in 5 hours?
ANSWER: 250 (Solution: d = rt = (50mi/hr)(5 hr) = 250 miles)
50) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in exponential form, simplify the following expression: 103×104 /102
ANSWER: 105

Which of the following is TRUE:
W) every real number has a reciprocal
X) the product of two integers is always positive
Y) the quotient times the divisor equals the dividend
Z) the product of two numbers is greater than either factor
ANSWER:
Y) THE QUOTIENT TIMES THE DIVISOR EQUALS THE DIVIDEND
52) Short Answer:
3 5 1
Evaluate the following and give your answer as a proper fraction in lowest terms: 16 + 8 – 4
9
ANSWER:
16
53) Short Answer:

Solve the formula, I = prt, for r:
ANSWER: r = I/pt (ACCEPT: I/pt)
54) Short Answer:

3 5 1
Multiply the following 3 fractions and give your answer as a proper fraction in simplest terms: 10 × 7 × 2
3
ANSWER: 28

Which of the following best describes two angles that share a common side and a common vertex and do not overlap:
W) adjacent
X) parallel
Y) alternate
Z) vertical
ANSWER:
W) ADJACENT
56) Short Answer:

Subtract the following 2 polynomials and simplify: (6x2 – 7x + 13) – (–x2 + 4x – 3)
ANSWER: 7x2 – 11x + 16
57) Short Answer:

If an ordered pair has an x-coordinate of zero, its graph lies on what part of the coordinate plane?
ANSWER: Y-AXIS (ACCEPT: VERTICAL AXIS)
58) Short Answer:

2 5 16 36 4
Name all of the following 4 fractions that are equivalent to : ; ; ;−
3 9 24 54 6
16 36
ANSWER: 24 ; 54
59) Short Answer:

If 2 coplanar parallel lines are intersected by a transversal line, what is the sum of all angles formed?
ANSWER: 720
60) Short Answer:

Malcolm drove his car a distance of 2 miles in a time of 2 minutes 30 seconds. Find his average speed, in miles per hour:
ANSWER: 48
61) Short Answer:

Divide x5 by x3 and simplify:
ANSWER: x2
62) Short Answer:

1 2
Evaluate the following and give your answer as a mixed fraction in lowest terms: 92 – 55
1
ANSWER: 410
63) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation for x: 15x + 8x – 3x = 120
ANSWER: 6
64) Short Answer:

5 3
Divide by and give your answer as a proper fraction in lowest terms:
9 5
25
ANSWER: 27
65) Short Answer:

Name all of the following 3 statements which are always TRUE: 1) a square is a regular polygon 2) an equilateral triangle is
equiangular 3) a scalene triangle has 2 sides of equal length
ANSWER: 1 AND 2

Which of the following is evenly divisible by each of the counting numbers 1 through 8:
W) 360
X) 1,250
Y) 1,800
Z) 2,520
ANSWER:
Z) 2,520
67) Short Answer:

Give the numerical value of 8 factorial divided by 8 factorial:
ANSWER: 1
68) Short Answer:

Evaluate the following expression: 10 + [8 + (2 – 10)] (read as: 10 plus, open bracket, 8 plus, open parenthesis, 2 minus 10,
close parenthesis, close bracket)
ANSWER: 10
69) Short Answer:

𝑥
Evaluate 𝑦 when x = 0 and y = –8:
ANSWER: 0
70) Short Answer:

Jill has $2.25 consisting of U.S. dimes and quarters. If she has 5 more dimes than quarters, how many dimes and quarters,
respectively, does she have?
ANSWER: DIMES = 10; QUARTERS = 5
71) Short Answer:

In what quadrant of the coordinate system are both x and y negative?
ANSWER: 3 (ACCEPT: III or THIRD)
72) Short Answer:

Bottled water is selling for 60-cents per bottle. If you buy a dozen bottles and hand the cashier a ten-dollar bill, how much
change are your owed, in dollars and cents?
ANSWER: $2.80

Pick any arbitrary point in the interior of a circle 12-inches in diameter and cut the circle into 8 slices by cutting at 45º
angles through that arbitrary point. If you color alternate pieces blue and yellow, then the total area of the blue slices will:
W) equal the area of the yellow slices
X) be twice the area of the yellow slices
Y) be one-half the area of the yellow slices
Z) be one-third the area of the yellow slices
ANSWER:
W) EQUAL THE AREA OF THE YELLOW SLICES
74) Short Answer:

Consider the four angles formed by two intersecting lines. If one angle measures 500, find the measure of the remaining
three angles, in degrees:
ANSWER: 50; 130; 130
75) Short Answer:

Any number, except zero, to the zero power equals what?
ANSWER: 1
76) Short Answer:

ANSWER: 380
77) Short Answer:

How many terms are in the following variable expression and what is the coefficient of the second term: 5x2 – x – 12yz2 + 9
ANSWER: TERMS = 4; COEFFICIENT = –1
78) Short Answer:

Sue and Sierra are making necklaces. If Sue makes an average of 3 every 30 minutes and Sierra averages 6 every hour, how
many necklaces do they average every hour if they work together?
ANSWER: 12 (Solution: 3/0.5 + 6/1 = 12)
79) Short Answer:

For the equation y = mx + b, b represents what value?
ANSWER: Y-INTERCEPT (ACCEPT: WHERE THE LINE CROSSES THE Y OR ORDINATE AXIS)
80) Short Answer:

Find a number such that 10-times the number reduced by 3 equals 4- times the number increased by 15:
ANSWER: 3 (Solution: 10x – 3 = 4x + 15)
81) Short Answer:

Find the product of 23 × 32:
ANSWER: 72
82) Short Answer:

Arrange the following 4 choices in INCREASING order: 2001; 53; 35; 202
ANSWER: 53; 2001; 35; 202
83) Short Answer:
Evaluate | –x | (read as: the absolute value of negative x) for x = –5:
ANSWER: 5
84) Short Answer:

Maxine buys a stock for $100.00 and then sells it for $75.00. She repurchases the stock for $125.00, and 3 months later sells
it for $200.00. What was her profit, in dollars?
ANSWER: 50 (Solution: –100 + 75 – 125 + 200 = $50.00)

W) a line that intersects 2 other lines at different points is called a transversal
X) if a ≤ 0 (read as: if a is less than or equal to 0), then the absolute value of a equals a
Y) the square of an integer is called a perfect square
Z) the real numbers include all rational and irrational numbers
ANSWER:
X) IF A ≤ 0 THEN THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF A EQUALS A
86) Short Answer:

A college student has a budget of $600.00 per month. If at the end of a given month she spent $350.00 and earned an extra
$150.00 in wages, how much is left in the budget at month’s end?
ANSWER: $400.00
87) Short Answer:

By words or number, name all of the following 3 statements which are always TRUE: 1) the smaller angle formed by the
hands of a clock at 2 o’clock is acute 2) two non-vertical parallel lines have the same slope 3) an altitude of an equilateral
triangle forms two, 45º, 45º, 90º triangles
ANSWER: 1 AND 2
88) Short Answer:

If a staple-gun misfires 5 times for every 200 shots, how many times will it be expected to misfire in 4,000 shots?
ANSWER: 100
89) Short Answer:

Solve the following inequality for x: 3(x + 1) ≥ 9
ANSWER: x ≥ 2
90) Short Answer:

1
2−
7
Evaluate the following complex fraction, giving your answer as an improper fraction in lowest terms 1:
1−
2
26
ANSWER: 7

W) the largest angle in a right triangle is 90º
X) each side of a regular polygon has the same length
Y) the side opposite an obtuse angle is the shortest side of a triangle
Z) a triangle can have only 1 obtuse angle
ANSWER:
Y) THE SIDE OPPOSITE AN OBTUSE ANGLE IS THE SHORTEST SIDE OF A TRIANGLE
92) Short Answer:

In her first year after graduating college, Lucy earned $25,000 in her first full-time job. Five years later her salary had risen
by 300%. What is her current salary?
ANSWER: $100,000.00
93) Short Answer:

By words or number, name all of the following 3 statements which are ALWAYS TRUE: 1) a trapezoid has a pair of parallel
sides 2) two triangles with the same area have the same perimeter 3) if 2 straight lines intersect, vertical angles have the
same measure
ANSWER: 1 AND 3
94) Short Answer:

The following daily Fahrenheit temperatures were recorded over a 5-day period: –15º, 2º, 0º, 13º, and –5º. Find the
average daily temperature for this period, in degrees Fahrenheit:
ANSWER: –1
95) Short Answer:

Simplify the following completely: (–2x2y3)3
ANSWER: –8x6y9
96) Short Answer:

The outdoor temperature at 6:00 AM is –8ºC. If it rises at a rate of 3ºC per hour, what is the temperature, in degrees
Celsius, at noon?
ANSWER: 10
97) Short Answer:

5
Solve the following equation for x: 8 x = 200
ANSWER: 320
98) Short Answer:

A certain ore contains 2% of a precious metal. How many tons of ore must theoretically be mined to obtain 16 tons of the
metal?
ANSWER: 800
99) Short Answer:

Find the product of (x3y) (x2y)
ANSWER: x5y
100) Short Answer:

5 3
Find the following product and give your answer to the first decimal place: (3) (5)2
ANSWER: 0.6
101) Short Answer:

Find the mean and median, respectively, of the following set of 6 numbers: 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11
ANSWER: MEAN = 10.5; MEDIAN = 10.5 (ACCEPT: BOTH 10.5)
102) Short Answer:

Consider a line that contains the points ABCD in order from left to right. If AB = 10, BC = 26, and AD = 56, find CD:
ANSWER: 20
103) Short Answer:

Simplify the following expression, combining like terms: 2x – 3y – (5x – 4y)
ANSWER: –3x + y (ACCEPT: y – 3x)
104) Short Answer:

A scale drawing of a tractor is drawn as 1 inch equal to 4 feet. If the width of the bucket is drawn as five-eights of an inch,
what is the actual width of the bucket, in feet to the first decimal place?
ANSWER: 2.5 (Solution: (1 in /4 ft)(5/8 in/x); x = 2.5 ft)
105) Short Answer:

Subtract 2 √7 from 5 √7 , giving your answer in its simplest radical form:
ANSWER: 3√ 7
106) Short Answer:

If on average 2 out 7 students prefer vegetarian sandwiches over nonvegetarian sandwiches, how many vegetarian
sandwiches should be ordered for 1400 students?
ANSWER: 400 (Solution: 2/7 = x/1400, x = 400)
107) Short Answer:

For the equation, –3x + 4y = 16, find y when x = 0:
ANSWER: 4
108) Short Answer:

If the point on a graph with coordinates (3, 2) is translated 1 unit to the left and 3 units down, and then another 3 units to
the left and 2 units up, what are the new coordinates?
ANSWER: (–1, 1)
109) Short Answer:

Expand the following expression, giving your answer in standard form: (x + 10)2
ANSWER: x2 + 20x + 100
110) Short Answer:

Find the following product, giving your answer in standard form: (2x + y)(x + y)
ANSWER: 2x2 + 3xy + y2
111) Short Answer:

What is the x-intercept of a graph of the following equation: y = –7x + 7
ANSWER: 1 (ACCEPT: 1, 0)
112) Short Answer:

Multiply the polynomial, 3x2 – 4xy + y2, by –3xy, and simplify:
ANSWER: –9x3y + 12x2y2 – 3xy3
113) Short Answer:

1 1 1
What is the common ratio of the geometric series with the first three terms, 2 , 4 , 8
1
ANSWER:
2
114) Short Answer:
What is the least common multiple of the numbers 30, 45, and 60?
ANSWER: 180
115) Short Answer:

3x + y
Reduce the following expression to lowest terms:
xy
3x + y
ANSWER: xy
(ACCEPT: CANNOT BE REDUCED)
116) Short Answer:

Find the prime factorization of 90:
ANSWER: 2 × 3 × 3 × 5 (ACCEPT: 2 × 32 × 5)
117) Short Answer:

Find the sum of 7 times 23, and 3 times 23:
ANSWER: 230 (Solution: (7 + 3)(23) = 230)
118) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation for x: (4x – 8) – (5x + 6) = (2x – 9) – (4x + 1)
ANSWER: 4
119) Short Answer:

Any triangle inscribed within a semicircle is always what type of triangle if one of its sides is the diameter of the semicircle?
ANSWER: RIGHT
120) Short Answer:

Provide the prime factors over the integers for the following expression: 25x4 – 16y2
ANSWER: (5x2 + 4y)(5x2 – 4y)
121) Short Answer:

1
Expand the following expression, giving your answer in standard form: (x – 4 )2
x 1 1 1
ANSWER: x2 – 2 + 16 (ACCEPT: x2 – 2 x + 16)
122) Short Answer:

If $1,000 is invested at a simple interest rate of 10% annually, at the end of 3 years, what is the total interest earned?
ANSWER: $300 (Solution: I = Prt = (1000)(0.10)(3) = $300.00)
123) Short Answer:

Express the following square root in its simplest radical form: √27
ANSWER: 3√3
124) Short Answer:

Your grades on your first 3 math tests are 80%, 83% and 90%. What do you need to score on the next test in order to
average 87% on the 4 tests?
ANSWER: 95 (Solution: (80 + 83 + 90 + x)/4 = 87, x = 95%)
125) Short Answer:

x2
Express the following radical in simplified form for all positive values of x: √(16)
x 1
ANSWER: 4 (ACCEPT: 4 x)
126) Short Answer:

6 3
Add the following rational expressions, giving your answer in reduced form: (2𝑥) + (X2)
3(x+1) 3
ANSWER: x2
+ (ACCEPT: 3x + x2 or 3x + 3x–2)
127) Short Answer:

(15x + 5y)
Simplify the following expression: 15
y 1
ANSWER: x + 3 (ACCEPT: x +3 y)
128) Short Answer:

2𝑥3𝑥2
Simplify the following completely: –
𝑥−3
ANSWER: 2x8
129) Short Answer:

Multiply the following 2 radicals, giving your answer as a whole number: ( 4√5 )( 2√5 )
ANSWER: 40
130) Short Answer:

1 1
Arrange the following 4 choices in INCREASING order: ; 0.22; 0.23;
√0.2 0.2
1 1
ANSWER: 0.23; 0.22; √0.2; 0.2

The graph of which of the following equations has a negative slope:
W) y = 2x – 4
X) y = – 2x + 4
Y) y = – 4
Z) x = – 2
ANSWER:
X) y = – 2x + 4
132) Short Answer:

Simplify the following completely: -20 x6y2z3 /2x4y2z2
ANSWER: –10x2z

Which of the following is closest in value to √51:
W) 5.1
X) 5.5
Y) 6.8
Z) 7.1
ANSWER:
Z) 7.1
134) Short Answer:

Find the next 3 terms of the arithmetic sequence whose first 3 terms are: 23, 15, 7
ANSWER: –1, –9, –17
135) Short Answer:
Express the following radical in simplified form for all positive values of x and y: √(36x4y6)
ANSWER: 6x2y3
136) Short Answer:

Find the product of √5x2 times √5x , giving your answer in its simplest radical form for all positive values of x:
ANSWER: 5x√x

Which of the following is closest in value to 792:
W) 6084
X) 6241
Y) 6399
Z) 6400
ANSWER:
X) 6241
138) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation for x: 9x2 + 12x = –4
2
ANSWER: – 3
139) Short Answer:

Your English teacher asks that you learn 2 new words every day. If you started with 12 new words, how many total new
words will you learn after 30 days?
ANSWER: 72 (Solution: w = 12 + 2d = 12 + 2(30) = 72 words)
140) Short Answer:

0.5
Arrange the following 4 choices in INCREASING order: ; √0.5 ; 0.52; ∛5 (read as: the cube root of 5)
π
0.5
ANSWER: π
; 0.52; √0.5 ; ∛5

x y
The graph of the equation, 2 + 4 = 1, is a:
W) straight line
X) parabola
Y) ellipse
Z) circle
ANSWER:
W) STRAIGHT LINE (Solution: y = –2x + 4)
142) Short Answer:

A hardware store-owner buys a 100-pound box of nails for $200. If the owner repackages the nails into 2-pound bags and
sells them each for $6.00 per bag, find his profit in dollars after selling all the nails:
ANSWER: 100 (Solution: 50 bags × $6 = $300; 300 – 200 = $100)

W) π is an irrational number
X) a dodecahedron has 12 faces
Y) 5 factorial is 5-times as large as 4 factorial
Z) if n is a multiple of 2, then n + 1 is also a multiple of 2
ANSWER:
Z) IF N IS A MULTIPLE OF 2, THEN N + 1 IS ALSO A MULTIPLE OF 2
144) Short Answer:

Ebony has taken 5 math tests and averaged 90% on her first 2 tests but averaged 100% on the next 3 tests. What is her
overall percent average after these 5 tests, assuming all are weighted equally?
ANSWER: 96 (Solution: [3(100%) + 2(90%)]/5 = 96%)
145) Short Answer:

A carpenter is building a vertical wall and using one, 2-by-4 vertical stud every 16 inches. If the wall is 8 feet long, how many
vertical studs will he use?
ANSWER: 7
146) Short Answer:

A circle has a circumference of 80π. Giving your answer in terms of π, find the length of a 36º arc of this circle:
ANSWER: 8π (Solution: C = 80π; 360/3600 = 1/10 × 80π = 8π)
147) Short Answer:

Choosing from x-coordinate, y-coordinate, slope and height, what value of the graph of a linear function is always constant?
ANSWER: SLOPE
148) Short Answer:

What is the exact value of the log10 1020? (read as: log base 10, of 10 to the 20th power)
ANSWER: 20
149) Short Answer:

What is the name for any line in the same plane as a circle and intersecting the circle at exactly one point?
ANSWER: TANGENT
150) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation for x: 256 = 2(x + 1)
ANSWER: 7
151) Short Answer:

In how many different ways can 4 people line up for a photograph?
ANSWER: 24 (Solution: 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24)
152) Short Answer:

If the price of carpeting is $20.00 per square yard, how much will it cost to cover a 30-foot by 30-foot square area?
ANSWER: $2,000.00 (Solution: A = 900 ft2; (900 ft2)(1 yd2/9 ft2)($20/ yd2) = $2000)

Which of the following expressions is NOT a monomial:
W) 3x2y
1
X) 2 x
Y) √x
Z) x
ANSWER:
Y) √x
154) Short Answer:

Find the following product, giving your answer in simplified form: (9xy2 + 4)(5xy2 – 3)
ANSWER: 45x2y4 – 7xy2 – 12
155) Short Answer:

A bag contains 100 crayons of which 20 are red, 55 are purple, and 25 are yellow. Expressed as a percent, what is the
probability of randomly getting one crayon from the bag and having it be yellow?
ANSWER: 25
156) Short Answer:

Assuming log 2 = 0.3 and log 3 = 0.5, find log 6:
ANSWER: 0.8 (Solution: log 2 + log 3 = 0.8)
157) Short Answer:

What is the most common name for the branch of mathematics developed by Mandelbrot that generates geometrically
self-similar patterns?
ANSWER: FRACTALS

Which of the following is the most economical purchase for a given brand of olive oil:
W) 3 liters at $30.00
X) 4 quarts at $30.00
Y) 6,000 milliliters at $30.00
Z) 1 gallon at $30.00
ANSWER:
Y) 6,000 MILLILITERS AT $30.00
159) Short Answer:

What is the degree of the following monomial: 12x2y3z4
ANSWER: 9 (Solution: 2 + 3 + 4 = 9)
160) Short Answer:

If the sum of the INTERIOR angles of a regular polygon is 540º, how many sides does it have?
ANSWER: 5 (Solution: 180o(n – 2) = 540o, n = 5 sides)

The formula, SA = s2 + 2sl, where s is one side of the base and l is the slant height, is used to calculate the surface area of
which of the following:
W) right circular cone
X) right pentagonal prism
Y) rectangular solid
Z) right square pyramid
ANSWER:
Z) RIGHT SQUARE PYRAMID
162) Short Answer:

Giving your answer rounded to the 1st decimal place, find the 9th term in the geometric sequence with first three terms:
0.1, 0.2, 0.4…
ANSWER: 25.6
163) Short Answer:

What is the second term in the binomial expansion of (a+ b)5?
ANSWER: 5a4b
164) Short Answer:

Provide the prime factors over the integers for the following expression: 16x2 – 25y4
ANSWER: (4x – 5y2)(4x + 5y2)

The graph of which of the following equations passes through quadrants one and two:
W) x – 2 = 0
X) y = x2
Y) x = 5y
Z) y + 3 = 0
ANSWER:
X) y = x2
166) Short Answer:

Paul is getting dressed for graduation. He has 2 choices of pants, 3 choices of shirts, and 4 choices of shoes. How many
different wardrobes consisting of pants, shirts and shoes are possible?
ANSWER: 24

Which of the following is the best example of a graph of ordered pairs that directly shows how much one variable is directly
affected by another:
W) box-and-whiskers plot
X) scatter plot
Y) histogram
Z) pie chart
ANSWER:
X) SCATTER PLOT
168) Short Answer:

A balanced coin is flipped 4 times. What is the probability, as a fraction in lowest terms, of obtaining the exact order of tail,
tail, head, head?
1
ANSWER:
16
169) Short Answer:

In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse describes what
trigonometric function?
ANSWER: SINE
170) Short Answer:

If the volume of a sphere is 36π centimeters, find its radius, in centimeters:
ANSWER: 3 (Solution: V = 4/3πr3; 36π = (4/3)πr3, r = 3 cm)
171) Short Answer:

Assuming it is in standard position, a 1081º angle will lie in what quadrant of the rectangular coordinate system?
ANSWER: ONE (ACCEPT: FIRST or I)
172) Short Answer:

Giving your answer to the 1st decimal place, find the sum of the first six terms of the geometric sequence whose first three
terms are: 0.1, 0.2, 0.4…
ANSWER: 6.3 (Solution: [(0.1)(1 – 26)]/(1 – 2) = 6.3)

Which of the following is TRUE for the graph of the following two equations: x + y = 8, and, 2x + 2y = 16
W) they coincide
X) they are perpendicular lines
Y) they are parallel lines
Z) they are horizontal lines
ANSWER:
W) THEY COINCIDE
174) Short Answer:

a3 −b3
Divide and simplify the following, combining like terms:
a −b
ANSWER: a2 + ab + b2
175) Short Answer:

What statistical quantity is computed knowing the square root of the variance and is a measure of a population’s
dispersion?
ANSWER: STANDARD DEVIATION
176) Short Answer:

How many combinations are there of 8 things taken 6 at a time?
ANSWER: 28 (Solution: 8C6 = (8·7·6·5·4·3)/(6·5·4·3 ·2·1) = 28)
177) Short Answer:

If a given row of Pascal’s triangle has the values, 1, 4, 6, 4, 1, give the exact order of values for the next row:
ANSWER: 1, 5, 10, 10, 5, 1
178) Short Answer:

A balanced coin is flipped once and a fair 6-sided die is rolled once. What is the probability, as a fraction in lowest terms, of
obtaining a tail AND a 3?
1
ANSWER: 12
179) Short Answer:

Classify the graph of, y = x2 – 6x – 2, as a circle, parabola, straight line, or ellipse:
ANSWER: PARABOLA
180) Short Answer:

A 20-centimeter long straw in the shape of an open right circular cylinder has a diameter of 2 centimeters. If the straw is
exactly one-quarter filled with water, how many cubic centimeters, rounded to the first decimal place and using π = 3.14, of
water are in the straw?
ANSWER: 15.7 (Solution: V = πr2h = π(12)(20) = 62.8; 62.8/4 = 15.7 cm3)
181) Short Answer:

Peter bought a soda from a vending machine with a dollar bill. The soda cost 35 cents. What is the smallest number of coins
he could receive in change if pennies are not included?
ANSWER: FOUR
182) Short Answer:

What is the integer value of 105 divided by 103?
ANSWER: 100 (DO NOT ACCEPT: 102)

A parallelogram whose adjacent sides are unequal is a:
W) deltoid
X) rectangle
Y) rhomboid
Z) monogram
ANSWER:
Y) RHOMBOID
184) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation: 9x – 13 = 14
ANSWER: 3
185) Short Answer:

What is the cube root of 8?
ANSWER: 2
186) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation: 3x + 15 = -12
ANSWER: -9

Four divided by zero is:
W) 4
X) undefined
Y) 0
Z) infinity
ANSWER:
X) UNDEFINED
188) Short Answer:

Find the value of x2 – y2 when x = -5 and y = -2:
ANSWER: 21
189) Short Answer:

If a ≠ 0 (read as: a does not equal 0), what is the multiplicative inverse of a?
1
ANSWER:
a
190) Short Answer:

What is the square root of 169?
ANSWER: 13
191) Short Answer:
The sum of all the interior angles of a triangle equals how many degrees?
ANSWER: 180°
192) Short Answer:

What is the total angular distance in degrees over a sphere?
ANSWER: 360°

The number 0.13 is written with a bar drawn over the last two digits. This means that:
W) the number terminates at 3
X) the pair of digits 13 repeats forever
Y) the number 3 repeats forever
Z) the number is negative
ANSWER:
X) THE PAIR OF DIGITS 13 REPEATS FOREVER
194) Short Answer:

The following number in Roman numerals is equivalent to what decimal number: C L X X X X I X
ANSWER: 199
195) Short Answer:

The identity element for addition is what number?
ANSWER: 0
196) Short Answer:

On a math test, 20 students averaged a score of 80% while 10 students averaged 90%. To the nearest whole number, what
is the mean score of the entire class?
ANSWER: 83%
197) Short Answer:

3x
Solve the following equation: 4
= -12
ANSWER: -16
198) Short Answer:

Convert the periodic decimal 0.8333 or 0.83 “bar” into a fraction:
ANSWER: 5/6
199) Short Answer:

Add the following numbers: 0.5 + 0.05 + 0.005
ANSWER: 0.555
200) Short Answer:

Remove the grouping symbols in the following expression: -3x(2 – 5z)
ANSWER: -6x + 15xz (ACCEPT: 15xz – 6x)
201) Short Answer:

What kind of fraction has the absolute value of the numerator greater than the denominator?
ANSWER: IMPROPER FRACTION
Which of the following numbers is divisible by 3:
W) 5,163
X) 2,465
Y) 1,315
Z) 313
ANSWER:
W) 5,163
203) Short Answer:

What is the name for a set that contains no elements?
ANSWER: EMPTY SET
204) Short Answer:

Solve the following expression: 2√25 + 25 ÷ 5
ANSWER: 15
205) Short Answer:

What does 12 times 13 divided by 2 equal?
ANSWER: 78
206) Short Answer:

Four factorial equals what number?
ANSWER: 24
207) Short Answer:

What is the name of the famous theorem of geometry that states the sum of the squares of a right triangle is equal to the
square of the hypotenuse?
ANSWER: PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM (ACCEPT: PYTHAGOREAN OR PYTHAGORAS
208) Short Answer:

What is the following Roman Numeral number equal to in an Arabic number: MCMLXI
ANSWER: 1961
209) Short Answer:

x
Solve the following equation: 6 = -8
ANSWER: -48
210) Short Answer:

Find the area of a circle when the radius equals 10:
ANSWER: 314 (Solution: A = πr2)
211) Short Answer:

What is the smallest two-digit whole number?
ANSWER: 10
212) Short Answer:

On your first math test you scored a 56% and on the second test you scored 70%. By what percentage did you increase your
score?
ANSWER: 25% (Solution = 70-56= 14, 14/56=25%)
213) Short Answer:
What is the standard formula for the surface area of a sphere?
ANSWER: 4πr2
214) Short Answer:

Multiply the following 5 numbers: (-2)(-5)(-4)(-3)(-1)
ANSWER: -120
215) Short Answer:

If 2 sides of a quadrilateral are parallel and the other sides are equal but NOT parallel, what is the quadrilateral known as?
ANSWER: TRAPEZOID
216) Short Answer:

Find the area of a triangle whose base is 8 and whose height is 6:
ANSWER: 24 (Solution: A = 1/2bh)

If a biker traveled at an average speed of 3 meters/second for 100 seconds, the length of the biker’s path was about:
W) 33 meters
X) 300 meters
Y) 100 meters
Z) 1 kilometer
ANSWER:
X) 300 METERS
218) Short Answer:

If a perfect number is an integer equal to the sum of all its divisors, except the number itself, what is the lowest perfect
number?
ANSWER: 6 (Solution: 6= 1+2+3)
219) Short Answer:

Identify the quotient, dividend, and divisor for 15 ÷ 3:
ANSWER: QUOTIENT = 5; DIVIDEND = 15; DIVISOR = 3
220) Short Answer:

Give the product of (x + 7)2 in standard form:
ANSWER: x2 + 14 x + 49
221) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation: -4 + x = -5
ANSWER: -1
222) Short Answer:

Give the median for the following data set: 32, 59, 68, 70, 84
ANSWER: 68 (Solution: mean or average is 62.6; median is middle, not average)
223) Short Answer:

The identity element for multiplication is what number?
ANSWER: 1
224) Short Answer:
After a discount of 20%, the price of a motorcycle was $10,000. What was the original price of the motorcycle?
ANSWER: $12,500.00
225) Short Answer:

What is the sum of the internal angles of a pentagon:
ANSWER: 540°

Assuming a year in a dog’s life is equivalent to 7 years of a human’s life, what is 1 hour of a dog’s life approximately
equivalent to in a human’s life?
W) 3 ½ hours
X) 7 hours
Y) 5 hours
Z) 4 ½ days
ANSWER:
X) 7 HOURS

The longest straight line that can be drawn inside a circle is called its:
W) radius
X) vector
Y) tangent
Z) diameter
ANSWER:
Z) DIAMETER
228) Short Answer:

If you walk north for 3 miles along 1st street and make a 90 degree right turn east onto B street and then walk for another 4
miles what would be the shortest distance back to where you started, if you could walk in a straight line?
ANSWER: 5 MILES (Solution : 3, 4, 5 right triangle)
229) Short Answer:

Convert 3/20 into a percentage:
ANSWER: 15% (Solution = 15/100 = 15%)
230) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation: 6x – 8 = 8 – 10x
ANSWER: 1 (ACCEPT: x = 1)
231) Short Answer:

Convert the decimal fraction 0.055 into its common fraction:
55
ANSWER: 1000 (ACCEPT: 55/103 and 11/200)
232) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation: -2 + x = 5
ANSWER: 7
233) Short Answer:

What is the formula for the volume of a sphere of radius R:
4
ANSWER: 3 πR3
234) Short Answer:

Which of the following are rational numbers: -8, - 3 , 1/5, 0, π (pronounced: pie)
ANSWER: -8, 1/5, 0
235) Short Answer:

What is the square root of 0.49?
ANSWER: 0.7
236) Short Answer:

Simplify the following algebraic expression: 3x2 + 4 – (3x + 2 – x2)
ANSWER: 4x2 – 3x + 2

If the average speed of a bicyclist is 2 meters/second for one kilometer, then the biker must have traveled the entire
distance and:
W) stayed at 2 meters/second
X) did not encounter hills
Y) did not stop
Z) took 500 seconds
ANSWER:
Z) TOOK 500 SECONDS
238) Short Answer:

Simplify the following algebraic expression: 2x + 3(y + 3z + x)
ANSWER: 5x + 3y + 9z
239) Short Answer:

18
Reduce 54 to its lowest fraction:
1
ANSWER: 3
240) Short Answer:

Find the value of 4x – 6y if x = -2 and y = -3:
ANSWER: 10
241) Short Answer:

1 2 4
What is the least common denominator for the following operation: 2 + 3 + 5
ANSWER: 30
242) Short Answer:

If in a sequence of natural numbers, starting with 2, you begin eliminating every second number after 2, then every third
number after 3, then every fourth number after 4, and so on, what type of numbers will be left?
ANSWER: PRIME NUMBERS
243) Short Answer:

What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose other two sides are 6 and 8 units long?
ANSWER: 10
244) Short Answer:
If you were to invest $1000 in a savings account that pays 5% simple annual interest, how much interest in dollars will you
earn in 1 year?
ANSWER: $50 SINGLE ELIMINATION ROUND 1

For numbers < 10 (read as: less than or equal to 10), and not including the number 1, how many are prime numbers?
W) 3
X) 4
Y) 5
Z) 2
ANSWER:
X) 4 (Solution: primes are 2, 3, 5, 7)
246) Short Answer:

Factor the expression: x2 + 3x – 10
ANSWER: (x + 5)(x – 2)

W) all natural numbers are whole numbers
X) all whole numbers are integers
Y) all integers are rational numbers
Z) all numbers can be both a rational number and an irrational number
ANSWER:
Z) ALL NUMBERS CAN BE BOTH A RATIONAL NUMBER AND AN IRRATIONAL NUMBER
248) Short Answer:

Factor the following equation: x2 – 6x + 5 = 0
ANSWER: (x – 5) (x – 1) = 0
249) Short Answer:

In standard form, give the product of (a + b)2:
ANSWER: a2 + 2ab + b2
250) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation: 2x + 4 = 6 + 2x
ANSWER: NO SOLUTION (ACCEPT: FALSE, CONTRADICTION, DEFECTIVE EQUATION, ETC.)

The equation, x = -4, is which of the following:
W) a true statement
X) a false statement
Y) a conditional equation
Z) an equivalent equation
ANSWER:
Y) A CONDITIONAL EQUATION
252) Short Answer:

Express the square root of 75 in its simplest radical form:
ANSWER: 5√3
253) Short Answer:

What is the square root of ¼?
ANSWER: ½
254) Short Answer:

Simplify the following algebraic expression: 4x – 3(a – b)
ANSWER: 4x – 3a + 3b

A graph of a stationary object graphed with position on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis is:
W) a horizontal line
X) a vertical line
Y) a curved line
Z) a line at 45 degrees
ANSWER:
W) A HORIZONTAL LINE
256) Short Answer:

Combine the terms in the following expression: 5 + 3x – 2y – 10
ANSWER: 3x – 2y – 5 (ACCEPT: -5 + 3x – 2y)
257) Short Answer:

In the following set of numbers, which is NOT a prime number: 3, 5, 11, 17, 25, 29
ANSWER: 25
258) Short Answer:

A farmer wants to make a square fenced-in area for his cows, with an area of 1600 square feet. He wants to have a fence
post every 10 feet on the perimeter. How many fence posts will he need?
ANSWER: 12 (Solution: square is 40 feet on a side; 3 posts per side (don't count corners twice))

Continuing up the number sequence of natural numbers, prime numbers become which of the following:
W) non-existent at a certain point
X) all even after a certain point
Y) less and less frequent
Z) more frequent
ANSWER:
Y) LESS AND LESS FREQUENT
260) Short Answer:

If you begin with 1 and double it 12 times, what will the total be?
ANSWER: 4,096

The equation y (5+2y) = y × 5 + y × 2y (read as: y times, parentheses, five plus two y, close parentheses, equals y times five
plus y times two y) is an example of which algebraic property:
W) commutative property of addition
X) associative property of addition
Y) distributive property
Z) additive identity property
ANSWER:
Y) DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY
262) Short Answer:

Combine the terms in the following expression: 12xy – 4x + 6y – 20yx
ANSWER: -10xy – 4x + 6y (ACCEPT: -4x + 6y – 10xy)
263) Short Answer:

The price of a postage stamp changes from 33 cents to 34 cents. What is the percent increase in price?
ANSWER: 3 (ACCEPT: 3.03)
264) Short Answer:

Simplify the following equation: 7x2/x3
ANSWER: 7 x (ACCEPT: 7(x)-1)
265) Short Answer:

Factor the following quadratic equation: x2 + 6x + 9
ANSWER: (x + 3)(x + 3) or (x + 3)2
266) Short Answer:

If you count from 1 to 100, how many 9's will you pass on the way?
ANSWER: 20

Which of the following is a binomial?
W) 2 x2
X) x2 + 5x − 2
Y) π
Z) x − 2
ANSWER :
Z) x − 2
268) Short Answer:

What are all the integral factors of the number 22?
ANSWER: 1, 2, 11, 22 (ACCEPT: + or - 1, 2, 11, 22)

Which of the following is TRUE of the following equation: 3x + 9 = 9 + 3x
W) the equation is conditional
X) the equation is an identity
Y) it is an equation with no solution
Z) the equation has an infinite number of solutions
ANSWER:
X) THE EQUATION IS AN IDENTITY
270) Short Answer:

What 3 consecutive numbers add up to 39?
ANSWER: 12, 13, AND 14
271) Short Answer:

1 1 1
Add the following: 32 + 23 + 112
11
ANSWER: 612
272) Short Answer:

What is the average speed, in miles per hour, of a person who travels 120 miles in 3 hours, 40 miles the next 3 hours, and
36 miles the following 2 hours?
ANSWER: 24.5 (ACCEPT: 24 – 25)
273) Short Answer:

How many degrees are in one internal angle of a regular pentagon?
ANSWER: 108°
274) Short Answer:

A farmer wishes to make a straight barbed wire fence 80 feet long. He wants to have a fence post every 8 feet. How many
fence posts does he need?
ANSWER: 11 (Solution: one at the start and one every 8 feet there after 80/8 + 1 = 11)

Which of the following is closest in value to the number 10:
W) 9.995
X) 10.01
Y) 9.99
Z) 10.05
ANSWER:
W) 9.995
276) Short Answer:

What is the average of the positive whole numbers of 1 through 29?
ANSWER: 15
277) Short Answer:

Giving your answer to the second decimal place, add the following three numbers: 47 + 4.7 + 0.47
ANSWER: 52.17
278) Short Answer:

Giving your answer to the third decimal place, subtract the following two numbers: 18 – 2.049
ANSWER: 15.951
279) Short Answer:

Giving your answer as a decimal number, what does 10 to the minus three power equal?
ANSWER: 0.001
280) Short Answer:

What is the total price of admission to the theater for 2 adults and 4 children if the ticket price for adults is $30.00 and for
children is $18.00?
ANSWER: $132.00
281) Short Answer:
Round the number 590,695 to the nearest hundred:
ANSWER: 590,700
282) Short Answer:

Name all the prime numbers greater than 20 and less than 30:
ANSWER: 23 AND 29
283) Short Answer:

Evaluate the following expression: |20 − 30| + |30 − 20| (read as: open absolute value 20 minus 30 close absolute value,
plus open absolute value 30 minus 20, close absolute value)
ANSWER: 20
284) Short Answer:

327
Giving your answer as a decimal to two places, divide the following:
11
ANSWER: 29.73
285) Short Answer:

5
What are the multiplicative inverse and additive inverse of - 3, respectively?
3 5
ANSWER: MULTIPLICATIVE INVERSE = - 5 ; ADDITIVE INVERSE = 3
286) Short Answer:

If 12 gallons of gasoline costs $36.00, what would 1 quart cost, in cents?
ANSWER: 75 CENTS

W) 23 – 3 × 2 = 17
X) 72 ÷ 9 – 3 = 5
Y) 0.3 + 0.4 × 2 = 1.4
Z) 6 + 6 × 2 = 18
ANSWER:
Y) 0.3 + 0.4 × 2 = 1.4
288) Short Answer:

If on average 6 people drink two-thirds of a gallon of lemonade, how many people will drink 4 gallons?
ANSWER: 36
289) Short Answer:

5
Change the following mixed number into an improper fraction: 318
59
ANSWER: 18
290) Short Answer:

Evaluate the following expression: –6 × 3 + –16 ÷ 4
ANSWER: –22

W) two numbers are reciprocals if their product is 1
X) one-half of three quarters is three eighths
Y) a whole number is divisible by 5 if the ‘ones’ digit is 0 or 5
6
Z) an example of a proper fraction is 4
ANSWER:
6
Z) AN EXAMPLE OF A PROPER FRACTION IS 4
292) Short Answer:

What is the sum of all odd one-digit prime positive numbers?
ANSWER: 15
293) Short Answer:

How many U.S. quarters equal 750 U.S. nickels?
ANSWER: 150
294) Short Answer:

Name all of the following 5 numbers that are composite numbers: 3, 11, 33, 53, 63
ANSWER: 33; 63

W) 5 × 0 = 0
X) 2 × ½ = 5 ÷ 5
0
Y) 5 = 0
5
Z) = 5
0
ANSWER:
5
Z) 0 = 5
296) Short Answer:

Simplify the following: (x3y4z2) × (2y3)0
ANSWER: x3y4z2
297) Short Answer:

If 10% of a certain number is 240, what is 25% of the original number?
ANSWER: 600
298) Short Answer:

4 14
Giving your answer as a proper fraction in its simplest form, subtract the following two fractions: 8 - 12
2
ANSWER: -
3
299) Short Answer:

What is the greatest common factor of the numbers 14 and 49?
ANSWER: 7
300) Short Answer:

What is the Roman numeral equivalent of the year 2006?
ANSWER: MMVI
The number 3,101 is evenly divisible by which of the following numbers:
W) 3
X) 7
Y) 9
Z) 11
ANSWER:
X) 7

Which of the following is the product of 3.14 and 93:
W) 27.14
X) 729.14
Y) 2289.06
Z) 2742.04
ANSWER:
Y) 2289.06

W) 30% × 60% = 18%
X) the square of an odd number is always odd
Y) the reciprocal of the smallest prime number is ½
Z) the number 27 is a perfect square
ANSWER:
Z) THE NUMBER 27 IS A PERFECT SQUARE
304) Short Answer:

What is the price of a $15.00 item that is marked up 25%?
ANSWER: $18.75

Which of the following BEST describes the number property used in the following equation: (3 × 2) × 5 = 3 × (2 × 5)
W) associative property of multiplication
X) commutative property of multiplication
Y) distributive property of multiplication
Z) multiplicative property of one
ANSWER:
W) ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY OF MULTIPLICATION
306) Short Answer:

Arrange the following in increasing order: (–3)2; –(4)2; (–1)4; –(–3)3
ANSWER: –(4)2; (–1)4; (–3)2; –(–3)3
307) Short Answer:

5 6
Giving your answer as a proper fraction in its simplest form, multiply the following two fractions: (- 6 ) x ( - 11)
5
ANSWER: 11
308) Short Answer:

8 1 5 12
Giving your answer as a mixed fraction reduced to its lowest terms, subtract the following fractions: ( − )- ( − )
9 9 9 9
5
ANSWER: 1 9
309) Short Answer:

If the mileage scale on a road map is 1centimeter per 2.5 miles, an 80-mile trip would be represented by how many
centimeters on the same map?
ANSWER: 32
310) Short Answer:

Of the following five quantities, which is the LEAST and which is the GREATEST, respectively: : 0.425; ¼; √2 ; – √9 ; 4/3
ANSWER: LEAST = – √9 ; GREATEST = √2
311) Short Answer:

If a fair die is tossed once, what is the probability that an odd number or a number less than 3 is thrown expressed as a
fraction in lowest terms?
2
ANSWER: 3
312) Short Answer:

If the time is 1:15 PM, what time will it be, given as hours, minutes and AM or PM, in 630 minutes?
ANSWER: 11:45 PM
313) Short Answer:

If side A of a right triangle measures 4 meters and the hypotenuse measures 5 meters, what is the length of side B, in
meters?
ANSWER: 3 (Solution: 3:4:5 triangle)
314) Short Answer:

What is the area of a square, in square meters, if its perimeter is 28 meters?
ANSWER: 49
315) Short Answer:

How many 4 ounce containers can be packed from 1200 pounds of dry tea leaves?
ANSWER: 4,800 (Solution: 4 × 1200 = 4800)
316) Short Answer:

Evaluate the following expression: 6 + 2(5 + 4 – 1) (read as: 6 + 2, open parenthesis, 5 plus 4 minus 1, close parenthesis)
ANSWER: 22

Which of the following numbers is evenly divisible by 4:
W) 174
X) 414
Y) 636
Z) 1,126
ANSWER:
Y) 636 (Solution: 36, the last 2 digits, is a multiple of 4)
318) Short Answer:

If it takes a hiker 2 hours to make a descent from 10,500 feet to 7,500 feet, what is his average rate of decent, in feet per
minute?
ANSWER: 25 (Solution: (10,500 – 7,500)/(120 – 0) = 25 ft/min)
319) Short Answer:

What was the net gain or loss in yardage for a football team that in four straight plays gained 12 yards, then lost 9 yards,
gained 3 yards, and finally lost 23 yards?
ANSWER: LOSS OF 17
320) Short Answer:

Consider an isosceles triangle whose 2 sides of equal length meet to form a vertex angle of 96º. What is the degree
measure of each base angle?
ANSWER: 42 (Solution: 2x + 96 = 180; x = 42º)
321) Short Answer:

If one of 2 complementary angles is 32º greater than the other, how many degrees is the larger angle?
ANSWER: 61
322) Short Answer:

Find the area of a triangle, in meters squared, given a base of 10 meters and height of 5 meters:
ANSWER: 25 (Solution: A = ½(b)(h) = ½ (10)(5) = 25 m2)

Which of the following is NOT true about polygons:
W) the sum of the exterior angles of any polygon equals 720º
X) a regular polygon is always equilateral
Y) a square is not a regular polygon
Z) a regular pentagon is a polygon with 5 congruent angles and 5 congruent sides
ANSWER:
Y) A SQUARE IS NOT A REGULAR POLYGON
324) Short Answer:

What three consecutive numbers add up to 192?
ANSWER: 63, 64, 65
325) Short Answer:

Evaluate the following radical: – √160,000
ANSWER: –400
326) Short Answer:

13 7 10 2
Arrange the following 4 fractions from the LARGEST to the SMALLEST: ; ; ;
18 12 4 12
10 13 7 2
ANSWER: ; ; ;
4 18 12 12
327) Short Answer:

What is the percentage decrease when a stock price drops from $55.00 per share to $44.00 per share?
ANSWER: 20%
328) Short Answer:

A cell phone company charges 25 cents per minute for the first 10 minutes of usage and 10 cents per minute for usage
greater than 10 minutes. If you talked for 1½ hours, what is your total airtime charge?
ANSWER: $10.50 (Solution: 0.25 × 10 = $2.50; 80 min × 0.1 = $8.00; $8 + $2.5 = $10.50)
329) Short Answer:

What is the degree measure of the vertex angle in an isosceles triangle if each base angle measures 48º?
ANSWER: 84
330) Short Answer:

What is the surface area of a cube, in square feet, if one edge measures 5 feet?
ANSWER: 150
331) Short Answer:

If two sides of a parallelogram are 8 and 9 centimeters, respectively, find the perimeter, in centimeters:
ANSWER: 34
332) Short Answer:

Rounded to the nearest meter, if side A of a right triangle measures 6 meters and side B measures 9 meters, what is the
length of the hypotenuse?
ANSWER: 11 (Solution: 62 + 92 = c2; c = 11)

Which of the following is a quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel lines:
W) trapezoid
X) rhombus
Y) rectangle
Z) hexagon
ANSWER:
W) TRAPEZOID
334) Short Answer:

What are the median, mean and mode, respectively, of the following set of 5 numbers, respectively: 35, 25, 10, 25, 45
ANSWER: MEDIAN = 25; MEAN = 28; MODE = 25
335) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in meters to the first decimal place, if one leg of an isosceles right triangle is 10 meters long, how long is
the hypotenuse?
ANSWER: 14.1 (Solution: c = a√2 = 10√2 - 14.1m)
336) Short Answer:

Consider 2 cars that start from the same point along a highway and travel in the same direction. One car travels at a
constant rate of 40 miles per hour and the other at a constant rate of 50 miles per hour. How many hours later are the cars
40 miles apart?
ANSWER: 4
337) Short Answer:

If a + b = 12, b + c = 20, and c + d = 6, find a if d = 1:
ANSWER: -3 (Solution: c + 1 = 6, c = 5; b + 5 = 20, b = 15; a + 15 = 12, a = -3)
338) Short Answer:

Using π = 3.14, give the integer value, in square centimeters, for the area of a circle whose diameter is 200 centimeters:
ANSWER: 31,400 (Solution: A = πr2 = (3.14)(100)2 = 31,400 cm2)
339) Short Answer:
Solve the following equation for x: l(x – 3)l = –7 (read as: the absolute value of, parenthesis, x – 3, close parenthesis, equals
negative 7)
ANSWER: NO SOLUTION (ACCEPT: EMPTY SET)
340) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation for x over the real number: (64)2 = 16x2
ANSWER: 16 and -16
341) Short Answer:

If Dan can paint a wall in 3 hours but Ryan takes 6 hours, how many hours will it take them to paint the wall if they work
together?
ANSWER: 2 (Solution: 1/x = 1/3 + 1/6; x = 2hrs)
342) Short Answer:

Subtract the following, giving your answer in simplest radical form: ( √20) − (2 √45)
ANSWER: − 4 √5

Which of the following is NOT true about slopes:
W) the slope of a line is defined as the ratio of vertical change to horizontal change
X) if 2 non-vertical lines are perpendicular, their slopes are negative reciprocals
Y) parallel lines have the same slope
Z) if a line is parallel to the x-axis, its slope is 1
ANSWER:
Z) IF A LINE IS PARALLEL TO THE X-AXIS, ITS SLOPE IS 1
344) Short Answer:

Give the numerical value of 5 factorial minus 4 factorial:
ANSWER: 96
345) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in the simplest form, what is the slope-intercept equation of the line with a slope of 4 and passing
through the point (0, 15)?
ANSWER: y = 4x + 15
346) Short Answer:

Find the solution set for the following inequality: 15 – x ≥ 3x + 6
9 9 1
ANSWER: X ≤ 4 (ACCEPT THE STATEMENT: ALL NUMBERS LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 4
or 2 4 )
347) Short Answer:

Find the midpoint of the line segment joining the following pair of points: (4, 1) and (12, 7)
ANSWER: (8, 4) (Solution: midpoint x = (x1 + x2)/2 = (4 + 12)/2 = 8; midpoint y = (y1 + y2)/2 = ( 1 + 7)/2 = 4)
348) Short Answer:

If one endpoint of a given line segment is at point (-2, 1) and the midpoint is at (8, 1), find the other endpoint:
ANSWER: (18, 1)
349) Short Answer:

What is the greatest common factor and the least common multiple of the following 3 numbers, respectively: 3, 6, and 8
ANSWER: GCF = 1; LCM = 24
350) Short Answer:

Find the product of the following 2 binomials, giving your answer in standard form: (–x – 3y)(–x + 3y)
ANSWER: x2 – 9y2
351) Short Answer:

Simplify the following, giving your answer in standard form: (X + X2 )/ X
ANSWER: 1 + x (ACCEPT: x + 1)
352) Short Answer:

Divide the polynomial, x2 + 12x + 32, by the quantity x + 4:
ANSWER: x + 8
353) Short Answer:

When 2 fair dice are rolled simultaneously and the face values added, which of the following five numbers is the most
common roll: 5, 6, 7, 9, 11
ANSWER: 7
354) Short Answer:

Solve the following equation for x: (X + 4) / ( X – 2) = 10 / 6
ANSWER: 11
355) Short Answer:

Give the slope of the following: 3x – 4y = 12
ANSWER: 3/4
356) Short Answer:

What is the slope of a line passing through the points (16, –10) and (11, 0)?
ANSWER: –2 (Solution: m = Y2 – Y1/ X2 – X1 = (0 + 10)/(11 – 16) = –2)
357) Short Answer:

What is the total number of unique subsets of a set with 5 elements?
ANSWER: 32 (Solution: 25 = 32)
358) Short Answer:

Rounded to the nearest whole number, find the distance between two points whose coordinates are (7, 5) and (9, 15)?
ANSWER: 10
359) Short Answer:

In how many different ways can 5 different puppets be ordered across a shelf?
ANSWER: 120 (Solution: 5! = 120)
360) Short Answer:

Expand the following expression, giving your answer in standard binomial form: (5X – 25)2
ANSWER: 25X2 – 250x + 625
361) Short Answer:

Solve the following logarithmic equation for x: log 2(x + 1) = log 8
ANSWER: 2
362) Short Answer:

Give the following sum as a single logarithm: log3 10 + log3 3
ANSWER: log3 30
363) Short Answer:

How many faces does a dodecagon have?
ANSWER: 12
364) Short Answer:

Find the sum of all interior angles, in degrees, in a regular hexagon:
ANSWER: 720 (Solution: (6 – 2)(180) = 720º)
365) Short Answer:

144
Evaluate the following radical: – √( 9
)
ANSWER: –4
366) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in slope-intercept form, what is the equation of the line passing through the point (2, 1) that is parallel
to the line with the equation 3y + 12x = 6?
ANSWER: y = -4x + 6
367) Short Answer:

ANSWER: 25
368) Short Answer:

Express the following radical in its simplest radical form if all variables represent positive quantities: 5 √(16a2b4c)
ANSWER: 20ab2 √c
369) Short Answer:

Find the value of the following logarithmic expression: log25 5
ANSWER: ½ (ACCEPT: 0.5)
370) Short Answer:

What is the surface area of a closed box, in centimeters, with a width of 6, height of 4, and length of 10 centimeters,
respectively?
ANSWER: 248 (Solution: A = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh = 2(10)(6) + 2(10)(4) + 2(6)(4) = 248 cm)
371) Short Answer:

What are the exact lengths, in centimeters, of the shorter and longer legs, respectively, of a 30-60-90 degree right triangle if
the length of the hypotenuse is 12 centimeters?
ANSWER: SHORTER LEG = 6; LONGER LEG = 6√ 3
372) Short Answer:

Today, Ted is 3-times as old than Alice. In 6 years from now, Ted will be twice as old as Alice will be. How many years old,
respectively, are Alice and Ted today?
ANSWER: ALICE = 6; TED = 18 (Solution: 3x + 6 = 2(x + 6); x = 6 (Alice); 3x = 18 (Ted))
373) Short Answer:
Add and simplify the following 2 polynomials, giving your answer in standard form: (9X3 + 6X2 +10x) + (-3X3 + 9X – 10X2 )
ANSWER: 6X3 – 4X2 + 19X
374) Short Answer:

Give the height, to the nearest whole meter, of the triangle that has an area of 54 square meters and whose base is 4-times
its height:
ANSWER: 5
375) Short Answer:

Add the following radicals, giving your answer in simplest radical form: 3 √3 + √12
ANSWER: 5 √3
376) Short Answer:

Solve the following inequality for x: |2𝑥 − 3| <9 (read as: open absolute value, 2x minus 3, close absolute value, is less
than 9)
ANSWER: –3 < x < 6 (ACCEPT: X IS GREATER THAN –3 AND LESS THAN 6)

If k is an integer greater than 1, which of the following is greater than 1:00
W) –(–k)3 Read as: negative - open parenthesis - negative k - closed parenthesis - to the third power
X) –(k)3 Read as: negative - open parenthesis - k - closed parenthesis - to the third power
1
Y) (K) − Read as: open parenthesis - k - closed parenthesis - to the negative one-third power
3
Z) -|𝐾|3 Read as: negative - open absolute value - k - closed absolute value - to the third power
ANSWER:
W) –(–k)3
378) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in the simplest form, what is the slope-intercept equation of the line passing through the points (3, 8)
and (2, 3)?
ANSWER: y = 5x – 7

Which of the following is equivalent to the radical expression, √(1818 ) Read as: square root of open parenthesis 18 to the
18th power closed parenthesis
W) 33
X) 99
Y) 183
Z) 189
ANSWER:
Z) 189
380) Short Answer:

Give the third term in the binomial expansion of the following: (x + y)5
ANSWER: 10x3y2
381) Short Answer:

Factor the following polynomial over the integers: 49x2 – 64
ANSWER: (7x + 8)(7x – 8)
382) Short Answer:
Consider a distribution of 7 scores with a median of 20. If the lowest score value is decreased by 4, what will the new
median value be for this distribution of 7 scores?
ANSWER: 20
383) Short Answer:

Three points on a graph are connected by lines to form a triangle. If the center of dilation is the origin and one of the points
is (4, 6), what is the new point for a dilation factor of 2?
ANSWER: (8, 12)
384) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in terms of π, what is the length of a 36º arc in a circle that has a circumference of 50π?
ANSWER: 5π (Solution: C = 50π; 1/10th of 50π = 5π)
385) Short Answer:

3
Express the following radical in its simplest rationalized form: √8
3√2
ANSWER:
4
386) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in terms of pi, what is the volume, in cubic meters, of a right circular cone that has a height of 10 meters
and a radius of 3 meters?
ANSWER: 30π
387) Short Answer:

Remove all negative exponents and simplify the following expression:
ANSWER:
388) Short Answer:
Expand the following expression, giving your answer in standard binomial form: (4x4y2 + 3)2
ANSWER: 16x8y4 + 24x4y2 + 9
389) Short Answer:

What is the volume, in cubic centimeters, of a rectangular prism that measures 8-centimeters long, 2-centimeter wide, and
3-centimeters high?
ANSWER: 48 (Solution: V = l × w × h)
390) Short Answer:

How many different 3-letter arrangements are there of the first 6 letters of the alphabet?
ANSWER: 120 (Solution: P(6,3) = 6!/(6-3)! = 6!/3! = 120)
391) Short Answer:

Order the following 4 radicals from the smallest to the largest:
ANSWER:
392) Short Answer:

Multiply the following 2 radicals, giving your answer to the nearest whole number:
ANSWER: 24 (Solution: )
393) Short Answer:
If 2 fair dice are rolled simultaneously, what is the probability that the 2 dice will show the same number expressed as a
fraction in lowest terms?
ANSWER: 1/6
394) Short Answer:

If the volume of a rectangular pyramid is 36 cubic meters and its base measures 3 meters in length and 4 meters in width,
find its height, in meters:
ANSWER: 9 (Solution: V = 1/3(l × w × h); 36 = 1/3(3 × 4 × h); h = 9 m)
395) Short Answer:

Solve the following radical equation for x, when x is a real number:
ANSWER: 18
396) Short Answer:

If the surface area of a right rectangular prism is 188 cubic centimeters and its length is 6 centimeters and its height is 7
centimeters, find its width, to the nearest whole centimeter:
ANSWER: 4

Which of the following equations has a graph that is a circle:
W) x2 + y2 = 25
X) 4y = 3x + 2
Y) y = x2
Z) x – 3 = 0
ANSWER:
W) x2 + y2 = 25
398) Short Answer:

Find the distance between and give the coordinates of the midpoint between the following points: (12, 8) and (18, 8)
ANSWER: DISTANCE = 6; MIDPOINT = (15, 8)
(Solution: d = ( = 6);
midpoint x = (x1 + x2)/2 = (12 + 18)/2 = 15 ; midpoint y = (y1 + y2)/2 = (8 + 8)/2 = 8)
399) Short Answer:

Expand the following expression, giving your answer in standard binomial form: (4x + 3y)2
ANSWER: 16x2 + 24xy + 9y2
400) Short Answer:

How many different outcomes are possible if eight hydrogen fuel cars compete in a race for which first, second, and third
prizes will be awarded and no ties are possible?
ANSWER: 336 (Solution: P(8,3) = 8!/(8-3)! = 8!/5! = 336)
401) Short Answer:

Evaluate the following radical expression: (read as: the negative square root of the square root of 16)
ANSWER: –2
402) Short Answer:

Simplify the following expression if x represents a negative quantity:
ANSWER: 2x

Which of the following BEST describes the graph of the following equation, (x – 1)2 + (y + 2)2 = 9
W) straight line
X) parabola
Y) ellipse
Z) circle
ANSWER:
Z) CIRCLE
404) Short Answer:

Find the lateral surface area, in square meters, of a right circular cylinder with radius 4 meters and height 10 meters. Use π
= 3.14 and give your answer rounded to the nearest whole number:
ANSWER: 251 (Solution: LA = 2πrh; = 2(3.14)(4)(10) = 251.2 m2)
405) Short Answer:

In how many ways can 5 different people be standing around a circular table?
ANSWER: 24 (Solution: circular permutation, (n-1)! = (5-1)! = 4! = 24)
406) Short Answer:

Express the following in its simplest radical form:
ANSWER:
407) Short Answer:

What is the degree of the following polynomial: 7x4y –5x3y3 + 3xy3 – 4
ANSWER: 6 (Solution: the degree of the term with the largest degree, 3 + 3)
408) Short Answer:

Giving your answer in terms of pi, what is the volume of a cone with a height of 8 meters and a base whose diameter is 6
meters?
ANSWER: 24π (Solution: V = = 24π)
409) Short Answer:

Order the following 4 polygons from the one with the FEWEST faces to the one with the MOST faces: dodecagon;
hexadecagon; octagon; hexagon
ANSWER: HEXAGON; OCTAGON; DODECAGON; HEXADECAGON
410) Short Answer:

Find the number of sides in a regular polygon if each interior angle measures 135 degrees:
ANSWER: 8 (Solution: (n – 2)180º = 135n; n = 8)
411) Short Answer:

If the fourth term in the binomial expansion of (x + y)7 is 35x4y3, what is the 5th term?
ANSWER: 35x3y4 (ACCEPT: 35y4x3)
412) Short Answer:

3
In simplest terms, give the 6th term of the geometric sequence whose second term is –3 and whose third term is
2
3
ANSWER: –16 (Solution:
413) Short Answer:

Provide the prime factors over the integers for the following expression: x3 + 8
ANSWER: (x + 2) and (x2 – 2x + 4) (DO NOT ACCEPT (x + 2) times (x2 – 2x + 4))
414) Short Answer:

In how many different ways can a team of 6 students be selected from a group of 10 students?
ANSWER: 210 (Solution: nC r = n!/[r!(n-r)!] = 10!/[6!(10 – 6)!] = 210)
415) Short Answer:

In what quadrant will a 1135º angle lie, assuming it is in standard position?
ANSWER: ONE (ACCEPT: FIRST)
416) Short Answer:

Consider a smaller circle drawn within a larger circle. If the diameter of the larger circle is 10 centimeters and the diameter
of the smaller circle is 6 centimeters, what is the area of the space between the two circles, giving your answer in square
centimeters to the nearest whole number?
ANSWER: 50
417) Short Answer:

Solve the following logarithmic equation for x:
ANSWER: 5
418) Short Answer:

Find the surface area, in terms of pi in inches squared, of a closed right circular cylinder given that its radius is 3 inches and
its length or height is 10 inches:
ANSWER: 78π (Solution: SA = 2πr2 + 2πrh; SA = 2(π)(32) + 2(π)(3)(10) = 78π)

Which of the following is the equation of a parabola whose graph opens downward:
W) y = –x2
X) y = x3
Y) y = x2 + 2
Z) y = x2 – 2
ANSWER:
W) y = –x2
420) Short Answer:

A rectangular water storage tank measures 30 meters long, 10 meters wide and 12 meters deep. If water is leaking out at a
constant rate of 0.5 cubic meters per minute, how many hours will it take for the water level to drop one meter?
ANSWER: 10 (Solution: 300m3/(0.5m3/min) = 600 min/(60 min/hr) = 10 hrs)
421) Short Answer:

If the discriminant, of a quadratic equation is negative, how many real solutions does the equation have?
ANSWER: 0
422) Short Answer:

Find the 21st term in the arithmetic sequence whose second term is –5 and fourth term is 7:
ANSWER: 109
423) Short Answer:
Rounding your answer to the nearest whole number, what is 732.15 + 641.43?
ANSWER: 1374
424) Short Answer:

Round 63,159.456 to the hundreds’ (read as: hun-DREDS) place.
ANSWER: 63,200
425) Short Answer:

What is the additive inverse of 3?
ANSWER: -3
426) Short Answer:

What is the sum of the multiplicative inverse of 2 and the multiplicative inverse of 5 as a fraction in simplest form?
ANSWER: 7/10
427) Short Answer:

Evaluate √(8×5×3 +1) (read as: the square root of open parenthesis 8 times 5 times 3 plus 1 close parenthesis).
ANSWER: 11
428) Short Answer:
Providing your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth, evaluate (read as: open absolute value, open parenthesis
6x + 3 close parenthesis divided by -5x, close absolute value) for x = 6 .
ANSWER: 1.3
429) Short Answer:

Simplify 8/52 to a fraction in simplest terms.
ANSWER: 2/13
430) Short Answer:
Express (read as: open parenthesis one fifth plus 3.4 close parenthesis divided by two) as a fraction in lowest
terms.
ANSWER: 9/5

Which of the following distances is longest?
W) Half a kilometer
X) Half a decimeter
Y) 600 meters
Z) 40 decameters
ANSWER:
Y) 600 METERS
432) Short Answer:

What is the name of a line that intersects two or more coplanar lines in different points?
ANSWER: TRANSVERSAL
Which of the following integers is closest to the product of 0.00009 (read as: zero point zero zero zero zero nine) and
1.00001 (read as: one point zero zero zero zero one)
W) -1
X) 0
Y) 1
Z) 9
ANSWER:
X) 0

Which of the following integers is closest to 0.00009 (read as: zero point zero zero zero zero nine) to the power of -1?
W) -9
X) -1
Y) 0
Z) 10,000
ANSWER:
Z) 10,000
Simplify: (read as: the quantity of 2a plus 2b plus 2c divided by 4).
436) Short Answer:

Simplify 8 x 23 + 8 x 7 + 8 x 5 (read as: 8 times 23 plus 8 times 7 plus 8 times 5). Express the answer as a natural number.
ANSWER: 280
437) Short Answer:

Simplify:
ANSWER: f + 4
438) Short Answer:

What is the multiplicative inverse, in simplest form, of 43 times 25?
1
ANSWER: 1075(read as: one, one thousand seventy-five ten thousandths, or 1 over 1075)

Which of the following is closest to the area in square centimeters of a circle with a radius of 4 centimeters?
W) 12
X) 24
Y) 48
Z) 192
ANSWER:
Y) 48
440) Short Answer:
The area of a rectangle is 24 square centimeters. If you double both the length and width, what is the new area in square
centimeters?
ANSWER: 96
441) Short Answer:

What is the largest prime number less than 20?
ANSWER: 19
442) Short Answer:

What is the sum of the largest prime number less than 50 and the largest square number less than 50?
ANSWER: 96

Which of the following must be true about the product of an integer and one greater than the integer?
W) The product is negative
X) The product is positive
Y) The product is even
Z) The product is odd
ANSWER:
Y) THE PRODUCT IS EVEN
444) Short Answer:

The circumference of a circle is 6π. What is its area in terms of π?
ANSWER: 9π
445) Short Answer:

What is the largest prime number less than 9?
ANSWER: 7

The lengths of two sides of a triangle are 3 and 12. Which of the following could be the length of the third side?
W) 4
X) 8
Y) 12
Z) 16
ANSWER:
Y) 12
447) Short Answer:

50
Express 14 as a simplified mixed number.
4
ANSWER: 37
448) Short Answer:

At the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, underwater robots dove down in the water 5000 feet. If the robot dove down another
3000 feet, then rose up 6500 feet, where would the robot be in relation to sea level?
ANSWER: -1500 (ACCEPT: 1500 BELOW SEA LEVEL)

In the Pythagorean theorem, a2 + b2 = c2. If all side lengths are smaller than 1 unit long, which of the following is largest?
W) a2
X) b2
Y) c2
Z) c
ANSWER:
Z) c
450) Short Answer:

What is the length of the hypotenuse in a right triangle with legs of length 7 and 24?
ANSWER: 25
451) Short Answer:

A bicyclist rode 25,000 meters in 30 minutes. How many kilometers per hour is this?
ANSWER: 50
452) Short Answer:

What is the product of the first three even negative integers?
ANSWER: - 48
453) Short Answer:

11
Simplify completely the fraction
23
11
ANSWER: 23

If you were to graph the inequality x < -7 (read as: x is less than negative 7) on a number line, what would it look like?
W) It would have an open circle at -7 and a ray extending from -7 on the right to negative infinity on the left
X) It would have a closed circle at -7 and a ray extending from -7 on the right to negative infinity on the left
Y) It would have an open circle at 7 and a ray extending from 7 on the right to negative infinity on the left
Z) It would have open circles at -7 and 7 and be shaded in between them
ANSWER:
W) IT WOULD HAVE AN OPEN CIRCLE AT -7 AND A RAY EXTENDING FROM -7 ON THE RIGHT TO NEGATIVE INFINITY ON THE
LEFT
455) Short Answer:

How many 4 inch square tiles will be needed to cover a rectangular surface 8 inches by 24 inches?
ANSWER: 12
456) Short Answer:

How many triangular pieces with side lengths of 3 inches, 4 inches, and 5 inches can be cut from a rectangular sheet
measuring 8 inches by 6 inches?
ANSWER: 8

A spool of ribbon has 500 yards of ribbon. If one fancy bow takes 1.3 yards of continuous ribbon, how many bows can you
make from one spool?
W) 46
X) 384
Y) 462
Z) 650
ANSWER:
X) 384
458) Short Answer:

If x + y = 5 and 3x – 4y = 15, solve for x and y.
ANSWER: x = 5 AND y = 0
459) Short Answer:

Mike’s bill for texting last month was $10. This month it was $15. What was the percentage increase in the bill?
ANSWER: 50%
460) Short Answer:

Ira puts 20% of his paycheck in savings. If his check is $60 per week, how much money will he save in four weeks?
ANSWER: $48
461) Short Answer:

How many modes does the following list of seven numbers have: 1, 4, 4, 7, 8, 14, 14?
ANSWER: 2
462) Short Answer:

If you have a data set of the following seven values: 1, 2, 547, 550, 560, 580, 540, what is the name given to values such as 1
and 2?
ANSWER: OUTLIERS
463) Short Answer:

You are given three oranges. You then double the original number of oranges twice. What is the resulting number of
oranges?
ANSWER: 12

Which of the following statements about squares is NOT true?
W) A square is a rectangle
X) A square is a parallelogram
Y) A square is a rhombus
Z) A square’s diagonals are equal to its side lengths
ANSWER:
Z) A SQUARE’S DIAGONALS ARE EQUAL TO ITS SIDE LENGTHS
465) Short Answer:

Evaluate: |4 – (-8)| (read as: open absolute value, 4 minus negative 8, close absolute value).
ANSWER: 12
466) Short Answer:

As a fraction in simplest form, what is the slope of the line through the points (2, 5) and (7, 9)?
ANSWER: 4/5
467) Short Answer:

List all positive integer factors of 12.
ANSWER: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, AND 12
468) Short Answer:
What would the outer perimeter be in inches of a picture frame that is two inches wider all the way around a picture that
measures 12 inches by 18 inches?
ANSWER: 76

Which of the following is NOT a rational number?
W) -1.5
X) 0
Y) 1/3
Z) √2
ANSWER:
Z) √2

Which of the following statements is correct?
W) A triangle can be both acute and equilateral
X) A triangle can be both right and obtuse
Y) A triangle can be both acute and right
Z) A triangle can be both equilateral and right
ANSWER:
W) A TRIANGLE CAN BE BOTH ACUTE AND EQUILATERAL
471) Short Answer:

39
One half plus a number n equals 12 . What is n as a mixed number in simplest form?
ANSWER: 2 ¾
472) Short Answer:

Put these values in order from least to greatest: 0.99, 1.25, 14/15, 0.0099, -17.
ANSWER: -17, 0.0099, 14/15, 0.99, 1.25

3
Express in decimal form: 0.99 -4 (read as: 99 hun-DREDTHS minus three fourths).
W) 0.24
X) 0.75
Y) 0.9825
Z) 0.9975
ANSWER:
W) 0.24
474) Short Answer:

Simplify: 0.99 - 0.0099 (read as: 99 hun-DREDTHS minus 99 ten thous-ANDTHS).
ANSWER: 0.9801
475) Short Answer:

Two boys and three girls are in a small group. Expressing your answer as a fraction in lowest terms, if a student is chosen at
random, what is the probability that a girl is chosen?
ANSWER: 3/5
476) Short Answer:
Sam has 2 quarters, 4 dimes, 2 nickels, and 1 penny in his pocket. Expressing your answer as a fraction in lowest terms, if he
reaches into his pocket and randomly pulls out a coin, what is the probability that the coin will be a penny or a dime?
ANSWER: 5/9

Which of the following correctly describes the number ?
W) Integer
X) Rational
Y) Irrational
Z) Whole
ANSWER:
X) RATIONAL
478) Short Answer:

What is the cube root of 343?
ANSWER: 7

1
If a 4-inch plant grows at the rate of 4 inch per day, what will its height be in 27 days?
3
W) 6 inches
4
X) 7 inches
3
Y) 10 4 inches
Z) 11 inches
ANSWER:
3
Y) 10 4 INCHES
480) Short Answer:

1
If a 4-inch plant grows at the rate of inch per day, in how many days will the plant reach 48 inches?
4
ANSWER: 176

In the gift shop, semi precious gemstones sell for $12 per pound. If there are 15 stones in a pound, what is the unit cost per
gemstone?
W) 75 cents
X) 80 cents
Y) $1.06
Z) $1.25
ANSWER:
X) 80 CENTS
482) Short Answer:

Maria and Jonathon were selling shirts at a flea market for $13 per shirt. However, they had the ability to bargain with
purchasers down to a minimum price of $10. At the end of the day, they had sold 2 shirts for $10, 3 shirts for $12, 2 shirts
for $12.50, and 5 shirts for $13. To the nearest cent, what was their mean price?
ANSWER: $12.17
483) Short Answer:

What is the coefficient of x in 10y – 6x + 13?
ANSWER: -6

Where is the geometric center of a cube?
W) It is at the center of its face
X) It is at the vertex of two faces
Y) It is at the point of intersection of the diagonals of a face
Z) It is at the point of intersection of the cube’s diagonals
ANSWER:
Z) IT IS AT THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE CUBE’S DIAGONALS

Molly walks an average of 3 strides in 2 seconds. At this rate, how many strides can she make in 1 minute?
W) 30
X) 60
Y) 90
Z) 120
ANSWER:
Y) 90
486) Short Answer:

Rectangle A has a length of 53 inches and a height of 28 inches. If rectangle B is similar to A such that the scale factor of B to
A is 5 to 1, what is the perimeter of rectangle B in inches?
ANSWER: 810

Which of the following is NOT necessarily a regular polygon?
W) Square
X) Isosceles triangle
Y) Octagon with all internal angles of 135°
Z) Hexagon with all internal angles of 120°
ANSWER:
X) ISOSCELES TRIANGLE
488) Short Answer:

If you double a number, then double that result, and continue that doubling process, how many times must you double a
number in order to make the result greater than 10 times the original number?
ANSWER: 4
489) Short Answer:

Simplify (read as: one third divided by one sixth)
ANSWER: 2
490) Short Answer:

What is the fifth positive integer multiple of 252?
ANSWER: 1260
491) Short Answer:

The dimensions of a rectangular prism are 12 centimeters by 12 centimeters by 10 centimeters. What is its volume in cubic
centimeters?
ANSWER: 1440

What is the measure, in inches, of the hypotenuse of a right triangle when the other two sides measure 6 inches and 5
inches?
W) 30
X) √11
Y) √30
Z) √61
ANSWER:
Z) √61
493) Short Answer:

The Sun is approximately 93 million miles from the Earth. What is this distance written in scientific notation?
ANSWER: 9.3 x 107
494) Short Answer:

What is 909,888,000,000 written in scientific notation with three significant digits?
ANSWER: 9.10 x 1011
495) Short Answer:

Mark has two pairs of gym shorts and three gym shirts. If he wears one of each, how many different outfits are possible?
ANSWER: 6
496) Short Answer:

How many different ways can four people stand in a line?
ANSWER: 24
497) Short Answer:

There is a men’s basketball team with 5 players. Their weights in pounds are: {165, 200, 220, 238, and 310}. What is the
median weight of the players?
ANSWER: 220
498) Short Answer:

What is the shape of
ANSWER: ELLIPSE
499) Short Answer:

In degrees, what is the measure of one interior angle of a regular triangle with a side length of 3?
ANSWER: 60°
500) Short Answer:

A rhombus has side lengths of 15 centimeters, a diagonal of 24 centimeters, and another diagonal of 18 centimeters. What
is its area in square centimeters?
ANSWER: 216

Which of the following correctly describes a triangle with side lengths of 2 inches, 3 inches, and 4 inches?
W) Equilateral
X) Isosceles
Y) Scalene
Z) Right
ANSWER:
Y) SCALENE

Suppose you have an equilateral triangle with a base of 2 inches. Which of the following is true?
W) The other sides of the triangle are 1 inch
X) The triangle could be similar to a right triangle
Y) The triangle is a right triangle
Z) The triangle is similar to all equilateral triangles
ANSWER:
Z) THE TRIANGLE IS SIMILAR TO ALL EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES
503) Short Answer:

What is the measure in degrees of an interior angle of a regular pentagon?
ANSWER: 108
504) Short Answer:

What is the sum of the measures of all interior angles of a regular hexagon and a regular octagon?
ANSWER: 1800
505) Short Answer:

Evaluate: 3 - |6 - 15| (read as: 3 minus the absolute value of the quantity 6 minus 15).
ANSWER: -6
506) Short Answer:

Evaluate: |(-7)(-5)| - 2 (read as: the absolute value of the product of negative 7 and negative 5 minus 2).
ANSWER: 33
507) Short Answer:

Which of the following values is greater: 42/45, 2/3, or 8/9?
ANSWER: 42/45
508) Short Answer:

Giving your answer as a fraction in simplest form, what is the difference between 13/15 and 19/21?
ANSWER: -4/105

On a number line, the coordinate of S is -6 and the coordinate of R is 3. Which statement is true?
W) S divided by R is greater than 0
X) R minus S is less than 0
Y) S times R is less than 0
Z) S plus R is greater than 0
ANSWER:
Y) S TIMES R IS LESS THAN 0
510) Short Answer:

On a coordinate grid, a line segment has endpoints ( -1, 2) and (3, -4). What are the coordinates of the midpoint of the
segment?
ANSWER: (1, -1)

Considering a number set {1,2,4,7,50}, which of the following values is the largest?
W) Mean
X) Median
Y) Range
Z) Third quartile
ANSWER:
Y) RANGE
512) Short Answer:

A bag of lawn fertilizer covers 2500 square feet. How many bags of fertilizer would you need to share with your neighbor if
your lawn was 175 feet by 200 feet and your neighbor’s yard was 150 feet by 150 feet?
ANSWER: 23
513) Short Answer:

A number is obtained by doubling an original value a total of 5 times. What is the final result if the original number is 1?
ANSWER: 32
514) Short Answer:

A number is obtained by doubling an original value, then doubling that result, and repeating that doubling process 6 times.
If the final value is 320, how large was the original number?
ANSWER: 5

Considering a circle of radius 1, which of the following has the largest numerical value?
W) Circumference
X) Diameter
Y) Area
Z) Radius
ANSWER:
W) CIRCUMFERENCE
516) Short Answer:

What is the surface area, in terms of π, of a cylinder with a radius of π and height of π?
ANSWER: 4 π3
517) Short Answer:

What is 4(z + 3) - 2 (read as: 4 times the quantity z plus 3) when z = 6?
ANSWER: 34

If Jen ran t + 3 kilometers and Susan ran half as much as Jen and biked twice as much as Jen ran, which expression
represents their total kilometers of exercise?
W) 2.5(t + 3) (read as: 2.5 times the quantity t plus 3)
X) 3.5t + 3
Y) 3.5(t + 3) (read as: 3.5 times the quantity t plus 3)
Z) 1.5t + 4.5
ANSWER:
Y) 3.5(t + 3)

You are the manager of a video game store who is trying to decide what type of games to order and re-stock for next
month. In looking at past and current sales, which of the following data descriptions would be of most interest to you?
W) Mean
X) Median
Y) Mode
Z) Range
ANSWER:
Y) MODE
520) Short Answer:

If you had a stem-and-leaf plot in which the first stem 1 had leaves of 2, 2, and 4; the second stem 2 had leaves of 1, 4, and
5; and the third stem 3 had leaves of 0, 0, and 1; what is the median?
ANSWER: 24
521) Short Answer:

Triangle CAT (read as: C-A-T) is a triangle with right angle A. Angle T is twice the measure of angle C. What is the measure of
angle T in degrees?
ANSWER: 60
522) Short Answer:

Point D with coordinates (-1, -3) is reflected over the y-axis. The result is then reflected through the line y = x. What are the
coordinates of the first image of the point D?
ANSWER: (-3, 1)
523) Short Answer:

Expressing your answer in exponential form, simplify: (85 ) (85 ) (read as: 8 to the fifth times 8 to the fifth).
ANSWER: 810
524) Short Answer:

Express the following in simplest exponential form: (64 ) (3 +2)³ (63 ) (read as: 6 to the fourth times the quantity 3 plus 2
cubed times 6 cubed).
ANSWER: (67) (53) ALSO ACCEPT: (27)(37)(53)
525) Short Answer:

What fraction represents the repeating decimal 0.2 (read as: 0 point repeated 2)?
ANSWER: 2/9
526) Short Answer:

Stating your answer as an improper fraction in simplest form, if 17s + 8 is 9 more than 6s - 14, then what is the value of s?
ANSWER: -13/11
527) Short Answer:

A doctor orders 15 milligrams of a certain drug. The drug is only available as 60 milligrams per cubic centimeter. How many
ccs should the nurse administer?
ANSWER: 0.25 (ACCEPT: 1/4)
Cal has 88 feet of fencing to make a rectangular pen for his dog. Which of the following respective lengths and widths in
feet will give him the largest area?
W) 22 by 22
X) 28 by 16
Y) 30 by 14
Z) 43 by 1
ANSWER:
W) 22 by 22
529) Short Answer:

What is the area in square inches of an isosceles triangle with legs of 5 inches and a base of 6 inches?
ANSWER: 12
530) Short Answer:

A right circular cone has a 6-inch radius, a slant height of 10 inches and a perpendicular height of 8 inches. If we remove the
base and then cut the cone along the slant height and open it out flat, what is the radius in inches of the formed sector?
ANSWER: 10
531) Short Answer:

Express 4 factorial as a whole number.
ANSWER: 24
532) Short Answer:

Expressing your answer in terms of pi, simplify 4x³ - 6(x² + 2) - 3π + 3x(x²) + 6π - 8 (read as: 4 x cubed minus 6, open
parenthesis, x squared plus 2, close parenthesis, minus 3 pi plus 3x times x squared plus 6 pi minus 8).
ANSWER: 7x³ - 6x² - 20 + 3π (ACCEPT: OTHER ORDERS OF TERMS)
533) Short Answer:

Right triangle DEF has a hypotenuse with a length of the square root of 90. One leg’s length is 9. What is the length of the
other leg?
ANSWER: 3

If points A, B, and C create an equilateral triangle with side lengths of 4 units, and D is the image of C by a reflection across
the line (AB), then what is the area of parallelogram ACBD in square units?
W) 8
X) 8
Y) 12
Z) 16
ANSWER:
X) 8
535) Short Answer:

A certain tree is 6 feet at the very beginning of spring, and grows 2 inches per day during the spring and summer. How
many days will it take for the tree’s height to reach 10 feet?
ANSWER: 24
536) Short Answer:

Give an algebraic equation to express the following situation: A certain tree is 6 feet tall at the very beginning of spring, and
grows 2 inches per day during the spring and summer. Use n to represent the number of days, and h for the tree’s total
height in feet.
ANSWER: (ACCEPT: 6h = 36 + n)
537) Short Answer:
Solve for a: (read as: the quantity a minus two over 9 equals two thirds)
ANSWER: 8
538) Short Answer:

You are going to meet a friend at a movie theater which is 4 miles from your house. You are riding your bike at an average
rate of 10 miles per hour. Your friend lives 1.5 miles from the movie theater and walks at an average rate of 3 miles per
hour. How many minutes ahead of you should your friend leave so that you meet at the movie theater at the same time?
ANSWER: 6

Which of the following equalities is NOT true, when a and b are nonzero, nonequal integers?
W) a b = b a
X) a + b = b + a
Y) a – b = b – a
Z) a/b = 1/b • a (read as: a over b equals 1 over b times a)
ANSWER:
Y) a – b = b – a
540) Short Answer:

Sara’s mom is recovering the dining room chair seats. The measurement of a seat is 12 inches by 14 inches. What would the
area of the fabric be, in square inches, if an extra border of two inches is needed around the square in order to cover the
seat?
ANSWER: 288

Which of the following lines has the steepest slope?
W) y = x + 4
X) 2y = 3x + 2
Y) 4y = 3x + 20
Z) 3y – 4x = 3
ANSWER:
X) 2y = 3x + 2

Which of the following graphs could represent a negative correlation?
W) A straight line passing through (0, 5) and (5, 1)
X) An upward U-shaped curve with a vertex at (3, 3)
Y) A straight line passing through (-2, 4) and (3, 10)
Z) A downward U-shaped curve with a vertex at (0, 0)
ANSWER:
W) A STRAIGHT LINE PASSING THROUGH (0, 5) AND (5, 1)
543) Short Answer:

What is the smallest angle, in degrees, formed by the intersection of the lines y = 2 and y = x + 3?
ANSWER: 45
544) Short Answer:

What is the equation, in slope intercept form, of the line perpendicular to the line y = 3x + 4, that passes through the point
(-5, 7)?
−1 16 −1 1
ANSWER: y = 3
x + 3
(ACCEPT: y = 3
x + 53 )
545) Short Answer:

Simplify y2 y-3 (read as y squared times y to the power of negative 3).
1
ANSWER: 𝑦 ALSO ACCEPT: y−1
546) Short Answer:

How many subsets does the set {a, b, c, d} have?
ANSWER: 16

Which of the following values is smallest?
W) 200
X) (-16)2 (read as: open parenthesis negative 16 close parenthesis squared)
Y) 142 (read as: 14 squared)
120 2
Z) ( ) (read as: open parentheis120 over 8 close parenthesis squared)
8
ANSWER:
Y) 142
548) Short Answer:

The radius of the Earth is approximately 6.4 x 106 meters (read as: 6.4 times 10 to the sixth). Giving your answer in scientific
notation with one significant digit, what is the surface area of Earth in square meters?
ANSWER: 5 × 1014
549) Short Answer:

Solve for x in simplest form: x2 = 50.
ANSWER: 5√2 , -5√2
550) Short Answer:

Factor completely over the integers: 15y² - y – 6.
ANSWER: (5y + 3) (3y – 2)
551) Short Answer:

What is the largest integer smaller than √150 ?
ANSWER: 12
552) Short Answer:

What is the multiplicative inverse of the rational number halfway between -1/3 and -1/4?
−24
ANSWER: 7

Which of the following can be equal to positive 4?
W) |-3| x |1| (read as: the absolute value of negative 3 times the absolute value of 1)
X) 23 (read as: 2 cubed)
Y) √−16 (read as: the square root of negative 16)
Z) √42 (read as: the square root of 4 squared)
ANSWER:
Z) √42
554) Short Answer:

A triangle has an area of 9y2 - 9y -10. The base of the triangle is 3y - 5. In terms of y, what is the height of the triangle?
ANSWER: 6y + 4
555) Short Answer:

What inequality would be represented by a number line with an open circle at -3, a closed circle at 10, and shading in
between?
ANSWER: -3 < x ≤ 10 (NOTE: ANY VARIABLE IS FINE. x COULD BE REPLACED WITH ANY LETTER)
556) Short Answer:

On a coordinate grid, a dashed line passes through the points (-5, 0) and (0, 5), and everything is shaded beneath that line.
What inequality is represented by this image?
ANSWER: y < x + 5
557) Short Answer:

What is the degree of the polynomial function f(x) = 7 (read as: f of x equals 7)?
ANSWER: 0

A 10-foot ladder leaned against a wall reaches a window. If the base of the ladder is 3 feet from the wall, how high up is the
window?
W) Between 6 and 7 feet
X) Between 7 and 8 feet
Y) Between 8 and 9 feet
Z) Between 9 and 10 feet
ANSWER:
Z) BETWEEN 9 AND 10 FEET
559) Short Answer:

What is ∜34(read as: the fourth root of 3 to the fourth)?
ANSWER: 3 (DO NOT ACCEPT: – 3)
560) Short Answer:

If n is positive, write the following in standard polynomial form: (5n2 – 500) ÷ (n + 10) (read as: the quantity 5 n squared
minus 500 divided by the quantity n plus 10)?
ANSWER: 5n - 50

Which of the following is a polynomial?
4
W) a2 - 𝑎 a + 3 (read as: a squared minus 4 over a plus 3)
X) 3a2 - a-2 + 1 (read as: 3 a squared minus a to the minus 2 plus one)
Y) 15a2 - a1.5 - 3 (read as: 15 a squared minus a to the 1.5 minus three)
Z) a3
ANSWER:
Z) a3
562) Short Answer:

What is the equation of the line, in slope intercept form, which passes through the points (-3, 2) and (-5, 6)?
ANSWER: y = -2x - 4
563) Short Answer:

How many cubic yards of concrete are needed to pour a sidewalk measuring 4 feet wide, 54 feet long, and 3 inches deep?
ANSWER: 2
564) Short Answer:

You have a cylinder with a radius of b and a height of (2b + 4). A rectangular prism has the same volume as the cylinder. The
rectangular prism has a square base with side lengths of 2b. What is the height of the rectangular prism in terms of π?
ANSWER: π/2 b + π [ACCEPT: π( ½ b + 1)]
565) Short Answer:

What values of p make the following inequality true: - p / 3 < -12 (read as: negative p over 3 is less than negative 12)?
ANSWER: p > 36
566) Short Answer:

A circle circumscribes a regular hexagon with side lengths of 8 centimeters. In terms of pi, what is the circumference of the
circle?
ANSWER: 16π
567) Short Answer:

Convert 50 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius.
ANSWER: 10o CELSIUS
568) Short Answer:

A pyramid is 14 meters tall and has a square base that is approximately 15 meters on a side. What is its volume in cubic
meters?
ANSWER: 1050
569) Short Answer:

What is the first and last number of every row of Pascal’s triangle?
ANSWER: 1
570) Short Answer:

A rectangular landscape box has a base measuring 2 feet by 6 feet, with a height of one foot. If 9 cubic feet of potting soil
are placed in the box and evenly spread with a consistent depth, what will be the height in inches of the soil?
ANSWER: 9

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
W) A triangle can be both acute and equilateral (read as: ee-kwi-LAH-the-rahl)
X) A triangle can be both right and isosceles
Y) A triangle can be both acute and right
Z) A triangle can be both scalene and right
ANSWER:
Y) A TRIANGLE CAN BE BOTH ACUTE AND RIGHT
572) Short Answer:
What is the length of the hypotenuse in a right triangle with legs of length 14 and 48?
ANSWER: 50
573) Short Answer:

What is the area of the unit circle?
ANSWER: π
574) Short Answer:

What is the length, in inches to the nearest whole number, of the arc corresponding to a sector with angle 45 degrees and
radius 10 inches?
ANSWER: 8

Which of the following values is smallest?
W) 4! (read as: four factorial)
X) 52
Y) |√100| x 4 (read as: the absolute value of the square root of 100 times 4)
Z) |√625| (read as: the absolute value of the square root of 625)
ANSWER:
W) 4!
576) Short Answer:

What is the sum of the numbers 1 through 250?
ANSWER: 31,375
577) Short Answer:

What is the degree of the polynomial 7x2y4 + 6x+ 7y + 10 (read as: 7 x squared y to the fourth plus 6 x plus 7 y plus 10)?
ANSWER: 6
578) Short Answer:

What is the equation of the axis of symmetry for the parabola: y = 2x2 – 3x – 5?
ANSWER: x = 3/4 OR x = 0.75

Which of the following regular polygons will NOT tessellate?
W) Triangles
X) Squares
Y) Hexagons
Z) Octagons
ANSWER:
Z) OCTAGONS
580) Short Answer:

ABC is a 3-4-5 triangle. If a similar triangle, DEF, has a perimeter of 144, find the area of DEF in square units.
ANSWER: 864
581) Short Answer:

What is the center of the hyperbola (read as: the quantity x minus 3 squared over 25 minus the
quantity y plus 1 squared over 49 equals 1)?
ANSWER: (3, -1)
582) Short Answer:
What is one equation in slope intercept form of an asymptote of the hyperbola read as: the quantity x
minus 3 squared over 25 minus the quantity y plus 1 squared over 49 equals 1)?
ANSWER:
583) Short Answer:

What is the integer value that is equal to log 5 + log 2?
ANSWER: 1
584) Short Answer:

What is the volume of a rectangular pyramid in cubic meters if the length of the base is 3.5 meters, the width of the base is
4 meters and the height of the pyramid is 6 meters?
ANSWER: 28
585) Short Answer:

What is the sum of all positive integer factors of 6?
ANSWER: 12
586) Short Answer:

Assuming all functions are defined, and expressing your answer in simplest form, evaluate (n2 + 7n – 8)/(n – 1) x (n2 – 4)/(n2
+ 6n – 16) Read as: open parenthesis n squared plus 7n minus 8 close parenthesis over open parenthesis n minus 1 close
parenthesis times the quantity open parenthesis n squared minus 4 close parenthesis over open parenthesis n squared plus
6n minus 16 close parenthesis.
ANSWER: n + 2
587) Short Answer:

How many positive factors does the number 1051 have?
ANSWER: 2
588) Short Answer:

In right triangle ABC, angle A = 60°, angle C = 90°, and side AB = 10 centimeters. What is the length of side BC in
centimeters? ANSWER: 5√3
589) Short Answer:

What are the x-intercepts for the function f(x) = x² - x - 12?
ANSWER: (4, 0) AND (-3, 0) (ACCEPT: 4 AND -3)
590) Short Answer:

21π
Find the reference angle to angle A = 8
3π
ANSWER: 8
6
Which of the following is true about the function 5X3 +4?
W) The function is odd
X) The function is even
Y) The function is positive
Z) The function is neither odd nor even
ANSWER:
Z) THE FUNCTION IS NEITHER ODD NOR EVEN
592) Short Answer:

What is the radius in units of a cone with a volume of 384π cubic units and a height of 8 units?
ANSWER: 12
593) Short Answer:

In triangle ABC, angle C is a right angle, side AC is equal to 15 units, and side BC is equal to 8 units. What is the length, in
units, of side AB?
ANSWER: 17
594) Short Answer:

By how much is the sum of the first 10 even positive integers greater than the sum of the first 10 positive integers?
ANSWER: 55
595) Short Answer:

Given that a plane is at an angle between 1 and 89 degrees to the axis of a right circular cylinder, what is the name of the
curve formed at their intersection?
ANSWER: ELLIPSE
596) Short Answer:

To be labeled “sugar free,” a candy must contain less than 0.5 grams of sugar per 40 grams. If a serving of sugar free candy
is 25 grams, what is the maximum amount of sugar allowed, to the nearest hundredth of a gram?
ANSWER: 0.31
597) Short Answer:

Bob is building shelves 18 inches long. He uses a saw with a kerf, or cut width, of an eighth of an inch. Considering the kerf,
how many shelves exactly 18 inches long can he make from a board that is 72 inches long?
ANSWER: 3
598) Short Answer:

What is the perimeter, in inches, of an isosceles (read as: eye-SOHSleez) trapezoid with parallel sides measuring 4 inches
and 10 inches and a height of 4 inches?
ANSWER: 24
599) Short Answer:

Identify the real zeros of the function f(x) = √(x2 – 4) (read as: f of x equals the square root of the quantity x squared minus
4).
ANSWER: -2 AND 2

Which of the following points lies on the curve with equation y = 2X3- |5x | + 3 (read as: y equals 2 x cubed minus the
absolute value of 5 x plus 3?
W) (-2, 29)
X) (-2, 1)
Y) (-2, 9)
Z) (-2, -23)
ANSWER:
Z) (-2, -23)

Which of the following is perpendicular to the line y = -2x + 6?
W) 2y = x + 4
X) x + 2y = 4
Y) y = 2x – 6
1
Z) y = -2 x – 6
ANSWER:
W) 2y = x + 4
602) Short Answer:

In simplest radical form, what is the area, in square units, of a right triangle with a hypotenuse length of 12 and one leg with
a length of 6?
ANSWER: 18 √3
603) Short Answer:

Thirty percent of the days of each month have been designated as vacation days. To the nearest day, how many days of
vacation should be in April?
ANSWER: 9
604) Short Answer:

The sum of 3 consecutive integers is 21. What is their product?
ANSWER: 336
605) Short Answer:

Given the graph of a quadratic polynomial function, what is the minimum number of ordered pairs on the graph needed in
order to determine the coefficients of the polynomial?
ANSWER: 3
606) Short Answer:

Fred is twice as old as Marco and Marco is 4 years older than Ray. If Larz is 2 years older than Fred, and Ray is 6 years old,
how old is Larz?
ANSWER: 22 YEARS OLD
607) Short Answer:

The volume of a cube is 27 cubic centimeters. What is the surface area, in square centimeters, of this cube?
ANSWER: 54
608) Short Answer:

Express the following in standard polynomial form: 5x4y7 × zy × 11x2z2y (read as: 5x to the fourth y to the seventh times zy
times 11 x squared z squared y).
ANSWER: 55x6y9z3
609) Short Answer:

The painting “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh is approximately 70 centimeters tall and 100 centimeters wide. If you buy a
reproduction that is 20 centimeters wide, how many centimeters tall would it be?
ANSWER: 14
610) Short Answer:
What real numbers cannot be part of the domain of the following function: (read as: f of x equals x over
open parenthesis x squared plus 3x minus 10 close parenthesis).
ANSWER: -5 AND 2
611) Short Answer:

In terms of pi, what is the volume, in cubic centimeters, of a right circular cone with a radius of 2 centimeters and a height
of 9 centimeters?
ANSWER: 12 π
612) Short Answer:

Consider two parallel lines cut by a transversal. If one pair of alternate interior angles have measures summing to 108o,
what is the value, in degrees, of one of the other alternate interior angles?
ANSWER: 126°
613) Short Answer:

Two fair six-sided dice are rolled. As a fraction in simplest form, what is the probability that the sum of the two numbers
rolled will be 5?
ANSWER: 1/9
614) Short Answer:

The diagonals of a rhombus are 10 centimeters and 5 centimeters. What is the area of the rhombus in square centimeters?
ANSWER: 25
615) Short Answer:

Five National Science Bowl contestants meet for the first time. Each one shakes the hand of the other four contestants.
How many handshakes are exchanged?
ANSWER: 10
616) Short Answer:

What are the coordinates of the point of intersection of the graphs of the two lines y = 3x - 5 and y = 5x + 9?
ANSWER: (-7, -26)
617) Short Answer:

What is the greatest integer less than or equal to the cube root of 211?
ANSWER: 5
618) Short Answer:

Consider the data set of ten numbers {3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 9, 10, 10, 10, 12}. What are the minimum, first quartile, median, third
quartile, and maximum, respectively?
ANSWER: 3, 6, 8, 10, AND 12
619) Short Answer:

Consider the graph of a normal distribution. To the nearest percent, what is the probability that a datum lies within two
standard deviations of the mean?
ANSWER: 95%
620) Short Answer:

A city has an area of 250 square miles. If 14% is covered with trees, and a separate 11% is covered with water, providing
your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth, how many square miles are covered with trees or water?
ANSWER: 62.5
621) Short Answer:

In a group of 30 students, 20 take French, 15 take Spanish, and 5 take neither language. How many students take both
French and Spanish?
ANSWER: 10
622) Short Answer:
Simplify the following expression completely if the denominator ≠ 0: (read as: open parenthesis x cubed plus
2 x squared y plus x y squared close parenthesis over open parenthesis x squared plus yx close parenthesis).
ANSWER: x + y
623) Short Answer:

What is the smallest non-negative integer which is divisible by each of 2, 3 and 4?
ANSWER: 0
624) Short Answer:

Providing your answer in terms of pi and in square units, what is the area of the shape described by the equation x2+ y2= 2?
ANSWER: 2π

Which of the following statistical values is least affected by outliers?
W) Median
X) Mean
Y) Range
Z) Standard deviation
ANSWER:
W) MEDIAN
626) Short Answer:

The volume of a closed right circular cylinder is 12 π cubic meters and its base has a radius of 2 meters. In terms of π square
meters, what is the surface area of the cylinder?
ANSWER: 20 π

Which of the following does NOT represent a function?
W) x = 4
X) y = 4
Y) y = x2
Z) y = 2x – 8
ANSWER:
W) x = 4
628) Short Answer:

You have a right circular cylinder with a radius of 6 inches and a height of 6 inches. You drop a ball with a radius of 3 inches
into the cylinder. How much empty space, in cubic inches and in terms of π, remains in the cylinder?
ANSWER: 180π

Which of the following lines has the steepest slope?
W) y = 2x – 4
X) -x + y = 4
Y) 2y = 3x + 8
Z) 4y = 5x + 12
ANSWER:
W) y = 2x – 4
630) Short Answer:

What is the surface area, in square feet, of a box that measures half of a foot by half of a foot by a quarter of a foot?
ANSWER: 1
631) Short Answer:

The point (-3, -2) is reflected through the line y = -x. What are the coordinates of its image?
ANSWER: (2, 3)
632) Short Answer:

Providing your answer in simplest radical form, what is the distance, in units, between the points (2, 3) and (-2, 8)?
ANSWER: √41

Which of the following angles in degrees cannot be constructed using only compass and straightedge?
W) 15
X) 20
Y) 30
Z) 45
ANSWER:
X) 20
634) Short Answer:

Consider the line y = 2x + 1. For what values of x will x and y have the same sign?
ANSWER: x IS LESS THAN -½ OR x IS GREATER THAN 0

Which of the following is the least volume?
W) 1.9 pints
X) 3.5 cups
Y) 1 quart
Z) 1/3 of a gallon
ANSWER:
X) 3.5 CUPS
636) Short Answer:

What are two consecutive positive odd integers whose product is 783?
ANSWER: 27 AND 29
637) Short Answer:
If the area of rhombus ABCD is 78 square centimeters and the altitude to the base CD is 7.5 centimeters, to the nearest
integer, what is the length in centimeters of a side of the rhombus?
ANSWER: 10
638) Short Answer:

A juice container in the shape of a rectangular prism has a base of 7 inches by 5 inches. Given that there are 231 cubic
inches in one gallon, and providing your answer to the nearest integer, how tall, in inches, must the container be to hold 6
gallons of juice?
ANSWER: 40
639) Short Answer:

As a fraction in simplest form, what is the slope of the line that contains the points (2, 3) and (-2, 6)?
ANSWER: -3/4
640) Short Answer:

It takes 11,600 pecans stacked end-to-end to reach the top of the Empire State Building, which is 1,250 feet tall. To the
nearest integer, how many whole pecans would be needed to reach the height of the Statue of Liberty at 150 feet?
ANSWER: 1,392
641) Short Answer:

Evaluate the complex expression (3i)2 (the quantity 3 i squared) .
ANSWER: -9
642) Short Answer:

Solve the following inequality: 4 – x < 6 + 3x.
ANSWER: x > -1/2
Which of the following adjectives describes the function: (read as: y equals 1 over open parenthesis 3 minus x
squared close parenthesis)?
W) Even
X) Odd
Y) One-to-one
Z) Polynomial
ANSWER:
W) EVEN
644) Short Answer:

Frodo drove 250 miles at an average speed of 50 miles per hour, and the remaining 360 miles at an average speed of 60
miles per hour. To the nearest integer, what was his average speed in miles per hour for the entire trip?
ANSWER: 55
645) Short Answer:

Give the name of the Greek mathematician, often referred to as the father of geometry, who deduced geometrical
principles based upon postulates such as, “it is possible to draw a straight line from any point to any other point.”
ANSWER: EUCLID
646) Short Answer:
A committee of 3 is to be formed from a group of 6 people. How many different committees are possible?
ANSWER: 20
647) Short Answer:

What is the largest two-digit prime number?
ANSWER: 97
648) Short Answer:

What are the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola with equation y = x2 + 6x + 4?
ANSWER: (-3, -5)
649) Short Answer:

Solve the equation |x − 2| = 3 (read as: the absolute value of the quantity x minus 2 equals 3).
ANSWER: x = -1 or x = 5 [NOTE: STUDENTS MUST GIVE BOTH ANSWERS]
650) Short Answer:

Solve the inequality: -3x – 4 ≥ 6x – 3.
ANSWER: x ≤ -1/9 (ACCEPT: -1/9 ≥ x)
651) Short Answer:

What is the largest number of sides possible for a regular polygon that tessellates the plane?
ANSWER: 6
652) Short Answer:

The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 9 feet, and one leg is 6 feet. What is the area, in square feet, of the triangle in simplest
radical form?
ANSWER: 9√5

Assuming that all of the following two dimensional shapes have the same area, which has the least perimeter?
W) Triangle
X) Circle
Y) Trapezoid
Z) Square
ANSWER:
X) CIRCLE
654) Short Answer:

At a special showing of “The Magic Flute,” all 300 tickets were sold for a total of $5,360. If an adult ticket was $20 and a
youth ticket was $12, how many adult tickets were sold?
ANSWER: 220
655) Short Answer:

10!
Evaluate: 8!3! (read as: 10 factorial over the quantity 8 factorial times 3 factorial).
ANSWER: 15
656) Short Answer:

Harry bought a shirt that was marked 50% off the sale price, which was 40% off the original price. Providing your answer as
a decimal to the nearest tenth, after paying a tax of 8%, what percent of the original sticker price did he pay?
ANSWER: 32.4%

If a polyhedron had seven faces, exactly six of which were triangles, which of the following could it be?
W) Hexagonal prism
X) Hexagonal pyramid
Y) Pentagonal prism
Z) Pentagonal pyramid
ANSWER:
X) HEXAGONAL PYRAMID
658) Short Answer:

Solve for real numbers x if √9x- x2 > 0 (read as: the square root of the quantity 9x minus x squared is greater than 0).
ANSWER: 0 < x < 9
659) Short Answer:

How many x-intercepts are there in the parabola with the equation: y = 7x2 + 4x + 12?
ANSWER: 0
660) Short Answer:

What is the greatest integer less than or equal to log3 (200)?
ANSWER: 4
661) Short Answer:

What is the smallest angle of rotational symmetry possible in an equilateral triangle?
ANSWER: 120
662) Short Answer:

The graph of the equation y = 3x2- 2x + 4 is translated 3 units to the left and 4 units up. What is the equation of the new
graph in standard polynomial form?
ANSWER: y = 3x2 + 16x + 29
663) Short Answer:

Simplify 12 + (√25 - √16)2 (read as: 12 plus open parenthesis the square root of 25 minus the square root of 16 close
parenthesis squared).
ANSWER: 13
664) Short Answer:

Sam pays $33 each for 47 watches. How many must he sell for $37 each to begin making a profit?
ANSWER: 42
665) Short Answer:

What is the numerical value of 94 times 86?
ANSWER: 8084
666) Short Answer:

A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle with diameter 16 centimeters. What is the perimeter, in centimeters, of the
hexagon?
ANSWER: 48
667) Short Answer:
How many subsets does the set consisting of the numbers 1, 2, and 3 have?
ANSWER: 8
668) Short Answer:

Sarah is 10 years older than Tom. Tom is 4 years younger than Jim. Sarah is twice as old as Jim. Give the ages, in years, of
Sarah, Jim, and Tom, respectively.
ANSWER: SARAH = 12; JIM = 6; TOM = 2

Which of the following inequalities has a finite solution set over the integers?
W) x2 + 5x + 6 > 0
X) |x + 2| > 4 (read as: the absolute value of the quantity x plus 2 is greater than 4)
Y) 9x – 7 < 3x + 14
Z) x2 – 4x + 3 < 0
ANSWER:
Z) x2 – 4x + 3 < 0
670) Short Answer:

Alice stands 30 feet away from a building and looks up to the top of it. The angle of elevation is 45 degrees. If she is 5 feet
tall, how tall is the building in feet?
ANSWER: 35
671) Short Answer:

What is the largest subset of the real numbers that can be the domain of the function f(x) = 1/x?
ANSWER: THE REAL NUMBERS EXCEPT FOR 0
672) Short Answer:

Find the area in square centimeters of an irregular dodecagon that looks like a plus sign formed from 12 equal segments
with lengths of 7 centimeters each.
ANSWER: 245
673) Short Answer:

In simplest radical form, what is the magnitude of the complex number 2 + 3i ?
ANSWER: √13

Which of the following features would indicate that a dataset is not from a normal distribution?
W) The range is equal to 6 standard deviations
X) There are outliers
Y) The range is much larger than the interquartile range
Z) The mean is much larger than the median
ANSWER:
Z) THE MEAN IS MUCH LARGER THAN THE MEDIAN

A quadrilateral may be inscribed in a circle if and only if which of the following is true?
W) It is a rectangle
X) It is a square
Y) It is equilateral
Z) Its opposite angles are supplementary
ANSWER:
Z) ITS OPPOSITE ANGLES ARE SUPPLEMENTARY
676) Short Answer:

If the range of the set of five numbers {4, 3, x, 9, and 8} is 12, what are the possible values of x?
ANSWER: 15 AND -3

Which of the following best represents the sum of the reciprocals of all positive integers?
W) 2
X) π2/6
Y) 9
Z) Infinity
ANSWER:
Z) INFINITY

A cylindrical tin can has a diameter of 4 inches and a height of 5 inches. Approximately how much more volume, in cubic
inches, would it have if the diameter were increased to 6 inches?
W) 63
X) 79
Y) 141
Z) 157
ANSWER:
X) 79

The line with equation y = −3x + 10 has points in every quadrant EXCEPT:
W) I
X) II
Y) III
Z) IV
ANSWER:
Y) III
680) Short Answer:

How many vertices and edges, respectively, does a regular octahedron have?
ANSWER: VERTICES = 6, EDGES = 12
681) Short Answer:

What is the product of complex numbers (2 + 3i)(2 − 3i) (read as: the quantity 2 plus 3 i times the quantity 2 minus 3 i)?
ANSWER: 13
682) Short Answer:

Sue leaves for school at 7 a.m., walking at a rate of 4 miles per hour. Her sister, Mary, leaves home at 7:30 a.m., riding her
bike at a rate of 8 miles per hour. At what time will Mary meet up with Sue?
ANSWER: 8:00 a.m.
683) Short Answer:

If each side of a rectangle is decreased by 10%, by what percentage is the area decreased?
ANSWER: 19%
684) Short Answer:

The lengths of three sides of a triangle are represented by 2x - 5, 5x + 3, and 4x + 9. Providing your answer as an improper
fraction in simplest form, if the perimeter is 50 units, what is the length of the shortest side?
ANSWER: 31/11
685) Short Answer:

What is the number of distinct diagonals in a regular octagon?
ANSWER: 20
686) Short Answer:

An isosceles trapezoid has sides of length 9√2 , 9√2, 30 and y units. Given that the two interior base angles measure 45°,
what are all possible values of y in units?
ANSWER: 12 AND 48
687) Short Answer:

What is the product of the two complex numbers 4 + i and 3 + i?
ANSWER: 11 + 7i
688) Short Answer:

If the area of a rhombus is 240 square units, and one of the diagonals measures 16 units, what is the length, in units, of a
side?
ANSWER: 17
689) Short Answer:

The base-six numeral 24 (read as: two-four) is equivalent to what in base 10?
ANSWER: 16
690) Short Answer:

If a line segment with endpoints at (0, 0) and (3, 4) in a plane is rotated around the x-axis, then what is the volume of the
resulting figure in cubic units in terms of π?
ANSWER: 16π

The equation x2 - 3y2+ 2x 􀀀􀀀4y - 8 = 0 graphs as which of the following conic sections?
W) Hyperbola
X) Ellipse
Y) Parabola
Z) Circle
ANSWER:
W) HYPERBOLA
692) Short Answer:
How many vertical asymptotes does the function (read as: f of x equals open parenthesis x squared
minus 2x minus 3 close parenthesis over open parenthesis x to the fourth minus 13 x squared plus 36 close parenthesis)
have?
ANSWER: 3
693) Short Answer:
1 1
Find a number x different from 3 such that x + =3+ (read as: x plus 1 over x equals 3 plus one third).
𝑥 3
ANSWER: 1/3
694) Short Answer:

Solve the system of inequalities 3x – 2 > 7 and 4x – 13 > 15.
ANSWER: x > 7
695) Short Answer:

What is the maximum number of lines of symmetry possible for a parallelogram?
ANSWER: 4
696) Short Answer:

If there is a jar with 4 green marbles and 6 yellow marbles, as a fraction in simplest form, what is the probability that Dexter
draws a yellow one and Shannon draws a green one, without replacement?
ANSWER: 4/15
697) Short Answer:

Is a triangle with sides of length 8, 9, and 12 acute, right, or obtuse?
ANSWER: ACUTE
698) Short Answer:

A stem and leaf plot of history test scores looks like the following: Stem 6 has leaves of 1 and 4; Stem 7 has leaves of 2, 3,
and 5; Stem 8 has leaves of 1, 1, 3, and 5; Stem 9 has leaves of 0, 0, 0, and 3; and Stem 10 has leaves of 0 and 0. What are
the mode, median and the range, respectively?
ANSWER: MODE = 90; MEDIAN = 83; RANGE = 39

For a set of two variable data, the correlation coefficient is r = -0.9 and the line of best fit is y = mx + b. Which of the
following is a TRUE statement about m?
W) m is greater than zero
X) m is less than zero
Y) m is equal to zero
Z) m can be any real number
ANSWER:
X) m IS LESS THAN ZERO
700) Short Answer:

Factor completely: x5 + y5.
ANSWER: x + y (x4- x3y + x2y2 -xy3 + y4)
701) Short Answer:

A tic-tac-toe game is played by placing Xs or Os at consecutive lattice points of a coordinate system. If your opponent had
marks at (-1, -2) and (1, -4), what are the coordinates of the point where you would place your mark in order to block your
opponent?
ANSWER: (0, -3)
702) Short Answer:

Solve the inequality 33x – 2 > 1 (read as: 3 to the power of the quantity 3x minus 2 is greater than 1).
ANSWER: x > 2/3

If f(x) = 1/x, then f −1 (x) (read as: f inverse of x) equals which of the following?
W) x – 1
X) x
1
Y) x2
1
Z) 𝑥
ANSWER:
1
Z) 𝑥
704) Short Answer:

If local sales tax is 9%, and tax is rounded to the nearest cent, what is the most a purchase can cost, before tax, to not
exceed a total of $25 including tax?
ANSWER: $22.94
705) Short Answer:

What is the degree of the polynomial 6x2y + 3yx4 – 2x?
ANSWER: 5
706) Short Answer:

Consider the system of two equations: 3x - 4y = 23 and 2x - 5y = 20. What is the value of x + y?
ANSWER: 3
707) Short Answer:

If a 20 meter tree casts a 20√3 meter shadow, what is the angle of elevation, in degrees, of the Sun?
ANSWER: 30°
708) Short Answer:

Solve the inequality: 15x2 – 2 > x.
ANSWER: x < -1/3 OR x > 2/5 (NOTE: STUDENTS MUST GIVE BOTH ANSWERS)
709) Short Answer:

What is the sum of the interior angles, in degrees, of a regular octadecagon?
ANSWER: 2880
710) Short Answer:

How many different permutations consisting of 3 letters, each ending in the letter T, can be formed from the seven letters
of the word MASTERS?
ANSWER: 21
711) Short Answer:

What are the coordinates of the x-intercept of the line: 5y = 4x – 20?
ANSWER: (5, 0)
712) Short Answer:

Find the minimum possible value of y in the equation y = |x – 3| − |x – 5| (read as: y equals the absolute value of the
quantity x minus three minus the absolute value of the quantity x minus 5), where x is a real number.
ANSWER: -2
713) Short Answer:
What is the largest possible radius, in units, of a circle contained in the interior of the ellipse 4x2 + 9y2 = 36?
ANSWER: 2
714) Short Answer:

For what positive integers a is it true that a – 7 divides a?
ANSWER: 6, 8, AND 14

A one-story building has floor dimensions of 400 feet by 100 feet. If a square patio with sides of 28 feet occupies the center
of the building, which of the following is the area in square feet that remains for offices?
W) 36,216
X) 37,216
Y) 38,216
Z) 39,216
ANSWER:
Z) 39,216
716) Short Answer:
What are the coordinates of the foci of the hyperbola

ANSWER: (-7, -2) AND (13, -2)
717) Short Answer:

What quadrant is not passed through by the line 5x + 3y = 15?
ANSWER: III
718) Short Answer:

The linear function f(x) contains the points (-1, 7) and (4, 3). What is f(10) in simplest form?
ANSWER: -9/5 (ACCEPT: -1.8; -1 4/5)
719) Short Answer:

How many right triangles ABC can be constructed satisfying the following: side A = 4 units, angle A = 30°, and side C = 12
units?
ANSWER: NO SOLUTIONS (ACCEPT: ZERO; NONE)

Given quadrilateral ABCD where AB = 6, BC = 5, CD = 5, DA = x, angle BCA = 50°, and angle ACD = 60°, which of the following
is TRUE about x?
W) x > 6
X) x = 6
Y) 5 < x < 6
Z) x < 6
ANSWER:
W) x > 6

For what real values of x is the function√x2 - 6x - 40 defined?
W) -10 < x < 4
X) -4 < x < 10
Y) All x that do not lie in the closed interval from -10 to 4
Z) All x that do not lie in the open interval -4 to 10
ANSWER:
Z) ALL x THAT DO NOT LIE IN THE OPEN INTERVAL -4 TO 10
722) Short Answer:

Michelle can mow a lawn in 5 hours, Steven can mow a lawn in 4 hours, and Bill can mow it in 3 1/2 hours. As a mixed
number in simplest form, how long will it take them in hours to mow the lawn together?
37
ANSWER: 1103
723) Short Answer:

What is the absolute value of the complex number 4 – 3i?
ANSWER: 5
724) Short Answer:

Given f(x) = √x, express a single function g(x) that results from the transformations on f(x) in the following order: a
horizontal shift of 5 units to the left, a vertical stretch by a factor of 3, and a reflection over the y-axis.
ANSWER: g(x) = 3√ -x + 5
725) Short Answer:

What is the name of the fractal that is built by starting with an equilateral triangle, removing the inner third of each side,
building another equilateral triangle at the location where the side was removed, and then repeating the process
indefinitely?
ANSWER: KOCH SNOWFLAKE (ACCEPT: KOCH ISLAND)
726) Short Answer:
If the real functions f and g are defined by , what is the domain of the composite function f(g(x))?
ANSWER: [3, 5) ∪ (5, ∞) OR ALL x ≥ 3, x ≠ 5
727) Short Answer:

The thickness of a plastic sheet manufactured by Perky Plastics must satisfy: |t – 2| ≤ 0.001 [the absolute value of the
quantity t minus 2 is less than or equal to 0.001]. Providing your answer to the nearest thousandth, what is the maximum
thickness t, in centimeters, this plastic sheet may have?
ANSWER: 2.001
728) Short Answer:

The perimeter of a rectangle is equal to 280 meters. The ratio of its length to its width is 5:2. What is the area of the
rectangle in square meters?
ANSWER: 4000

Which of the following would be the approximate measure of the length of a soccer field?
W) 1 decameter
X) 10 kilometers
Y) 100 meters
Z) 1000 centimeters
ANSWER:
Y) 100 METERS
730) Short Answer:
The volume of cube C is 8 cubic centimeters. Cube D has an edge 3 times the edge of cube C. What is the volume of cube D
in cubic centimeters?
ANSWER: 216
731) Short Answer:

If both coordinates of a point are negative, in which quadrant in the Cartesian coordinate system would it be located?
ANSWER: III (ACCEPT: THIRD)
732) Short Answer:

If ab = 12, a + b = 8, and a is greater than b, what is the value of a – b?
ANSWER: 4
733) Short Answer:

Providing your answer as a fraction in lowest terms, what is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to a line with the
2
equation y = 5x – 3
?
ANSWER: -1/5
734) Short Answer:

What is the greatest integer less than or equal to √888?
ANSWER: 29
735) Short Answer:

If an angle measures 34°, what is the measure in degrees of its supplement?
ANSWER: 146°
736) Short Answer:

Given a triangle ABC in which side AB = 10 centimeters, side AC = 10 centimeters, and angle A = 72°, what is the measure in
degrees of angle B?
ANSWER: 54°
737) Short Answer:

An angle measures 45⁰. What is the measure of its supplement, in degrees?
ANSWER: 135⁰

Given that a cubit is a unit of length equal to 18 inches, which of the following is the longest?
W) 3.1 cubits
X) 78 inches
Y) 6 feet
Z) 2.1 yards
ANSWER:
X) 78 INCHES
739) Short Answer:

When 10−4 is written in decimal form, how many zeroes are to the right of the decimal?
ANSWER: 3
740) Short Answer:

A gumball machine contains 30 green, 14 red, and 12 blue gumballs. Providing your answer as a fraction in lowest terms, if
you put enough money in for one gumball, what is the probability that you will get a red gumball?
1
ANSWER:
4
741) Short Answer:

Providing your answer as a fraction in lowest terms, what is the probability that, if you toss a standard die once, you roll a
two?
1
ANSWER: 6
742) Short Answer:

If Chris weighs 15 pounds more than Stephanie, and together they weigh 99 pounds, what is Chris’ weight in pounds?
ANSWER: 57
743) Short Answer:

What is the slope of a line passing through the points with coordinates (0, 0) and (4, 8)?
ANSWER: 2
744) Short Answer:

If line segment AB with one endpoint A = (4, 2) has midpoint M = (5, 4), find the coordinates of point B.
ANSWER: (6, 6)
745) Short Answer:

The measures of two acute angles in a right triangle are in the ratio 2:7 [2 to 7]. What are the measures in degrees of these
two angles?
ANSWER: 20° AND 70°
746) Short Answer:

Express the product of the two binomials 3x + 4 and 2x +1 in standard polynomial form.
ANSWER: 6x2 + 11x + 4
747) Short Answer:

Nick’s car costs $450 per month for car payment and insurance, and 25 cents per mile driven. What is the total monthly
cost in dollars in terms of m, the miles driven?
ANSWER: 0.25m + 450 (ACCEPT: m/4 + 450)
748) Short Answer:

A rectangular field has an area of 300 square meters and a perimeter of 80 meters. What are the dimensions of the field in
meters?
ANSWER: 30 AND 10
749) Short Answer:

If |200 − 𝑥| = 10 [the absolute value of the quantity 200 minus x equals 10], what are the possible values for x?
ANSWER: 190 AND 210
750) Short Answer:

Solve the inequality -5 + |p +2| ≥ 0 [negative 5 plus the absolute value of the quantity p plus 2 is greater than or equal to 0].
ANSWER: p ≤ -7 OR p ≥ 3 (MUST GIVE BOTH ANSWERS)
751) Short Answer:

An isosceles triangle has a perimeter of 62 inches. If the base of the triangle is 18 inches, what is the length of each of the
congruent legs?
ANSWER: 22
752) Short Answer:

What is the standard form of the equation of the line that passes through (-2, 4) and is parallel to y = (-3/2)x + 3?
ANSWER: 3x + 2y = 2 (DO NOT ACCEPT: -(3/2)x + 1)
753) Short Answer:

12y
Evaluate 5x
[the fraction with numerator 12 y and denominator 5 x] when y = 2 and x = 0.
ANSWER: UNDEFINED

Between which of the following two whole numbers does ∛515 [the cube root of 515] fall?
W) 5 and 6
X) 6 and 7
Y) 7 and 8
Z) 8 and 9
ANSWER:
Z) 8 AND 9
755) Short Answer:

What is twenty and 55 hundredths expressed as a decimal, a mixed number in simplest form, and a percent?
ANSWER: 20.55, 20 11/20, 2055%

x6 − x3
For positive values of x, the function f(x) = [the fraction with numerator x to the sixth minus x cubed and
x2
denominator x squared] is which of the following types?
W) Quartic
X) Cubic
Y) Hyperbolic
Z) Parabolic
ANSWER:
W) QUARTIC

Which of the following is a polyhedron whose base is a polygon and whose other faces meet at a point?
W) Pyramid
X) Cone
Y) Prism
Z) Regular polyhedron
ANSWER:
W) PYRAMID
758) Short Answer:

What is the surface area, in feet squared and to the nearest integer, of a sphere with a radius of 1 foot?
ANSWER: 13
759) Short Answer:

A parallelogram has a height of 20 feet. If its area is 600 square feet, what is its base in feet?
ANSWER: 30
760) Short Answer:

Giving your answer as a percent, what is the grade, or slope, of a dirt road that rises 20 feet for a horizontal distance of 400
feet?
ANSWER: 5%
761) Short Answer:

Providing your answer in terms of pi and in centimeters, what is the circumference of a circular disk whose area is 100π
square centimeters?
ANSWER: 20π
762) Short Answer:

What is the height in centimeters of a trapezoid for which the two bases measure 13 centimeters and 27 centimeters, and
its area is equal to 400 square centimeters?
ANSWER: 20
763) Short Answer:

Given a triangle FGE, such that GT is one of its medians, if TE = 8, what is the length of FE?
ANSWER: 16
764) Short Answer:

Given the parallelogram with vertices (2, 6), (8, 6), and (7, 2), what are the coordinates of the fourth vertex if the sum of
those two coordinates is as small as possible?
ANSWER: (1, 2)

Which of the following proportions is NOT correct?
15 5
W) 9
=3
30 600
X) 50 = 1000
8 4
Y) 24 = 16
4.2 5
Z) 8.4 = 10
ANSWER:
8 4
Y) 24 = 16
766) Short Answer:

The length of rectangle A is 24 centimeters, and the length of rectangle B is 96 centimeters. Given that the two rectangles
are similar, what is the ratio of the area of A to the area of B?
ANSWER: 1:16 (ACCEPT: 1/16)
767) Short Answer:

What is the slope of the line through the points (17, -13) and (17, 8)?
ANSWER: UNDEFINED (ACCEPT: NO SLOPE)
768) Short Answer:

24x − 36
Consider the following equation: 𝑦 = x2
[y equals open parenthesis 24 x minus 36 close parenthesis over x squared].
When y = 3, what are the possible values for x?
ANSWER: 6 AND 2
769) Short Answer:

When sketching the line y = 10x − 10, the line will go through which quadrants?
ANSWER: I, III, AND IV (ACCEPT: FIRST, THIRD, AND FOURTH)
770) Short Answer:

What is the slope intercept form of the equation for the line that is perpendicular to y = 5(x + 66) [y equals 5 times the
quantity x plus 66] and has a y intercept of 0.7?
ANSWER: y = −1/5 x + 0.7 (ACCEPT: y = −0.2x + 0.7; DO NOT ACCEPT y = -x/5 + 0.7)

x2 y2
The equation 4
+ 9
= 1 [x squared over 4 plus y squared over 9 equals 1] has a graph that is an example of which of the
following shapes?
W) Parabola
X) Ellipse
Y) Circle
Z) Torus
ANSWER:
X) ELLIPSE
772) Short Answer:

Eight National Science Bowl contestants meet for the first time. Each shakes the hand of the other seven, except for one
pair of contestants who refuse to shake each other’s hands. How many handshakes are exchanged?
ANSWER: 27

Which of the following is the smallest integer greater than 1011/2 [101 to the power of one half]?
W) 9
X) 10
Y) 11
Z) 12
ANSWER:
Y) 11
774) Short Answer:

Given two coplanar angles whose sides are all non-collinear. What are all of the different numbers of points in which the
angles can intersect?
ANSWER: 0, 1, 2, 3, AND 4
775) Short Answer:

If 8 is 20% of a given number, what is 10% of the number?
ANSWER: 4
776) Short Answer:

7
If 273 students, or 8 of a graduating class, plan to attend college, how many students are there in the graduating class?
ANSWER: 312
777) Short Answer:

If the first eight numbers of the Fibonacci sequence are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and 13, what is the next number in this sequence?
ANSWER: 21
778) Short Answer:

Solve: -x3/2 = -27 [negative x to the power of three halves equals negative 27].
ANSWER: 9
779) Short Answer:

An 8 inch by 10 inch photograph is glued onto the center of a 10 inch by 12 inch piece of white construction paper. What is
the area, in square inches, of the white paper not covered by the picture?
ANSWER: 40
780) Short Answer:

Vince mixed together 9 gallons of Brand A fruit drink and 6 gallons of Brand B fruit drink, which contains 5% juice. What is
the percent of fruit juice in Brand A if the mixture contained 11% fruit juice?
ANSWER: 15

Which of the following points is NOT on the graph of the equation y = 4x + 2?
W) (-2, 4)
X) (-1, -2)
Y) (0, 2)
Z) (1, 6)
ANSWER:
W) (-2, 4)
782) Short Answer:

Providing your answer in simplest radical form, if the lengths of one leg and the hypotenuse of a right triangle are 8 meters
and 16 meters, respectively, what is the length of the other leg, in meters?
ANSWER: 8√3

If you were to graph a line for each of the following equations, which would NOT intersect the origin?
1
W) y = 3 x
X) y = 4x
Y) x = 4y
Z) x = 5
ANSWER:
Z) x = 5
784) Short Answer:

Given a parallelogram WXYZ, such that angle Z is 80 degrees and angle Y is (11x -10) degrees, solve for x.
ANSWER: 10 (DO NOT ACCEPT: 10 DEGREES)
785) Short Answer:

Providing your answer in terms of pi, what is the volume in cubic meters of a sphere that has a radius of 1 meter?
ANSWER: 4/3π
786) Short Answer:

One pair of corresponding sides of two similar polygons has lengths of 12 centimeters and 18 centimeters, respectively. If
the perimeter of the smaller polygon is 100 centimeters, what is the perimeter in centimeters of the larger one?
ANSWER: 150

Given that time t has values 0, 1, and 2, and distance d has corresponding respective values 60, 110, and 160, which of the
following equations represents the linear relationship between t and d?
W) d = 50t
X) d = 50t + 60
Y) d = 60t
Z) d = 60t + 50
ANSWER:
X) d = 50t + 60
788) Short Answer:

1 −5
What is the inverse of the 2 by 2 matrix: [ ] [the first row is 1, negative 5 and second row is 2, negative 11]?
2 −11
11 −5
ANSWER: [ ]
2 −1

Which of the following numbers is NOT a perfect cube?
W) 216
X) 343
Y) 521
Z) 729
ANSWER:
Y) 521
790) Short Answer:

Matt is 12 years older than Clay. Clay is 1 year younger than Anna. If Anna is 8 years old, how old is Matt?
ANSWER: 19
791) Short Answer:

If the product of three consecutive negative integers is -24, what is the smallest of the three integers?
ANSWER: -4
792) Short Answer:

For what value of c does the line -4x + cy = 2 pass through the point with coordinates (2, -3)?
ANSWER: -10/3 (ACCEPT: -3 1/3)
793) Short Answer:

On a history test, 10 students scored 80 and 10 students scored 72. What was the mean test score?
ANSWER: 76
794) Short Answer:

What are the coordinates of the vertex of y = x2 + 16x + 70?
ANSWER: (-8, 6)
795) Short Answer:

Given a quadrilateral with interior angles of 95°, 85°, and 120°, what is the measure in degrees of its fourth interior angle?
ANSWER: 60°
796) Short Answer:
Solve for v: v2 – 2v – 35 = 0.
ANSWER: 7, -5
797) Short Answer:

Find the value of c that completes the square of r2 + 32r + c.
ANSWER: 256
798) Short Answer:

Given that one liter of water weighs one kilogram, providing your answer in terms of pi and in simplest form, what is the
weight in kilograms of the water contained in a full cylindrical container with a radius of 50 centimeters and a height of 1
meter?
ANSWER: 250π
799) Short Answer:

What is the greatest integer less than or equal to the cube root of 100?
ANSWER: 4
800) Short Answer:

Solve the following system of two equations: 7x + 2y = -6 and -14x – 4y = -2.
ANSWER: NO SOLUTION (ACCEPT: NULL SET, EMPTY SET)
801) Short Answer:

What is −5√3 − 3√3?
ANSWER: −8√3
802) Short Answer:

What number is 1/2 of 1/3 of 1/4 of 1/5 of 1,800?
ANSWER: 15
803) Short Answer:

Simplify 1,000,0001/6 [one million to the power of one sixth].
ANSWER: 10
804) Short Answer:

Evaluate f(x) = -x3 + 6x + 7 [f of x equals negative x cubed plus 6 x plus 7] at x = 6.
ANSWER: -173
805) Short Answer:

What is the x intercept of the line -3x + y = 3?
ANSWER: (-1, 0) (ACCEPT: -1)
806) Short Answer:

What are the largest possible domain and range, respectively, of y = 5 + √𝑥 − 2 [y equals 5 plus the square root of the
quantity x minus 2]?
ANSWER: DOMAIN x ≥ 2; RANGE y ≥ 5
807) Short Answer:

A colony of bacteria is growing in a culture under controlled conditions with a doubling period of two days. If, on a given
day, there are 100 bacteria present, how many bacteria will there be 8 days later?
ANSWER: 1600
808) Short Answer:

What is the vertex form of the equation y = x2 + 16x + 71?
ANSWER: y = (x + 8)2 + 7
809) Short Answer:

Find g(1) [g of 1] when g(a) = 33𝑎−2 [g of a equals 3 to the power of the quantity 3 a minus 2].
ANSWER: 3
810) Short Answer:

Providing your answer in simplest radical form, where does the graph of y = 2x2 – 5x – 1 cross the x-axis?
5 + √33 5 – √33
ANSWER: 4
AND 4
811) Short Answer:

−5 3
What is the determinant of the 2 by 2 matrix [ ][first row negative 5, 3 and second row 4, 2]?
4 2
ANSWER: -22
812) Short Answer:

Rebekah wants to fill a spherical piñata with candy. If the radius of her piñata is 6 inches, providing your answer in terms of
pi, what is the volume in cubic inches of her piñata?
ANSWER: 288π
813) Short Answer:

Identify all of the following four statements that are always true about a square: 1) it is a rectangle; 2) it is a rhombus; 3) it
is a parallelogram; 4) it is a quadrilateral.
ANSWER: ALL
814) Short Answer:

What is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line passing through the points with coordinates (-6, 0) and (-2, 3)?
ANSWER: -4/3
815) Short Answer:

What is the interior angle sum in degrees in a regular dodecagon?
ANSWER: 1800° (ACCEPT: 1800 WITHOUT DEGREE SIGN)
816) Short Answer:

A ball bounces to half its height when dropped from a 20 foot porch. What is the total distance, in feet, the ball will have
traveled when it hits the ground for the third time?
ANSWER: 50

Barb and Zack start walking around a track at the same time. It takes Barb 10 minutes to complete one lap. Zack completes
one lap in 8 minutes. After how many minutes will they be at the starting point together?
W) 18
X) 30
Y) 40
Z) 80
ANSWER:
Y) 40
818) Short Answer:

What is the difference between the smallest prime number greater than 100 and the largest prime number less than 100?
ANSWER: 4
819) Short Answer:

If a wheel has 15 spokes, how many total spaces will this form between spokes?
ANSWER: 15
820) Short Answer:

Sam is going to sky dive out of a plane that is 8000 feet above sea level. Using g = 32 feet per second squared, find Sam’s
height above sea level in feet after he has fallen 10 seconds.
ANSWER: 6400
821) Short Answer:

The volume of a cube is 27,000 cubic feet. What is the length of an edge in yards?
ANSWER: 10
822) Short Answer:

A circular pizza costs $19.99. Given that the diameter of the pizza is 36 centimeters, what is the cost to the nearest whole
number of cents of one square centimeter of pizza?
ANSWER: 2

Which of the following regular polygons could NOT be used to completely tile the floor of a video game center?
W) Hexagon
X) Pentagon
Y) Quadrilateral
Z) Triangle
ANSWER:
X) PENTAGON
824) Short Answer:

The first row in a theatre contains 8 seats. Each row contains 2 seats more than the one in front of it. How many total
people can sit in the first 6 rows?
ANSWER: 78

The radius of a bicycle tire is 10 inches. How far in inches does the wheel travel in six revolutions?
W) 120π
X) 90π
Y) 60π
Z) 45π
ANSWER:
W) 120π
826) Short Answer:

Given a line segment in a plane, how many different isosceles right triangles in the plane have the given line segment as a
side?
ANSWER: 6
827) Short Answer:

Given the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle has a length of 7√2, what are the lengths of the two legs?
ANSWER: 7 AND 7 (ACCEPT: 7)

Given a figure and its image under a line reflection. The line of reflection can be located using which of the following?
W) One perpendicular bisector
X) Two perpendicular bisectors
Y) Two parallel lines
Z) Two circles
ANSWER:
W) ONE PERPENDICULAR BISECTOR
829) Short Answer:

In simplest form, what is the fifth number in the following geometric sequence: 1, -2/3, 4/9, -8/27?
ANSWER: 16/81
830) Short Answer:

If y = 5x – 12, find the inverse of this function.
x + 12
ANSWER: 𝑦 =
5

Which of the following values of x makes the following equation true: 2𝑥 = 1/8 [2 to the power of x equals one eighth]?
W) -4
X) -3
Y) 1/3
Z) 4
ANSWER:
X) -3
832) Short Answer:

If 6 painters can paint 48 doors in 2 hours, then, in minutes, how long would it take a painter to paint 3 doors?
ANSWER: 45
833) Short Answer:

If a plane intersects a right circular cone parallel to its base, what are the names of all the types of geometric figures that
can be formed?
ANSWER: CIRCLE AND POINT
834) Short Answer:

Sue went shopping in two stores with her birthday gift money. In the first store, she spent two-thirds of what she had plus
$4. In the second store, she spent half of what was left plus $3. She had $4 left. How many dollars did she begin with?
ANSWER: 54
835) Short Answer:

What is the solution set of 6 + |x| = 9 [6 plus the absolute value of x equals 9]?
ANSWER: {3, -3}
836) Short Answer:
Interest accrues on a loan at a constant rate. If the loan is $2000 initially and $2120 after one year, what is the yearly
interest rate?
ANSWER: 6%
837) Short Answer:

If the height of a pyramid is doubled, but the base remains unchanged, what happens to its volume?
ANSWER: DOUBLES
838) Short Answer:

A tour bus traveled 3 kilometers east, proceeded 12 kilometers south, then 7 kilometers west, and finally 7 kilometers
north. In simplest form, how far in kilometers is it from its starting point?
ANSWER: √41
839) Short Answer:

x(x − 2)
What values cannot be part of the domain for the following function: f(x) = (x + 3)(x − 5) [f of x equals the fraction with
numerator x times the quantity x minus 2 and denominator open parenthesis, x plus 3, close parenthesis, open parenthesis,
x minus 5, close parenthesis]?
ANSWER: -3 AND 5
840) Short Answer:

You have a sugar cone that has a radius of 3 inches, and a height of 8 inches. You drop a perfect sphere of ice cream with a
radius of 3 inches onto the cone so that the ball of ice cream is now half in the cone, half out. Providing your answer in
terms of pi, what is the volume in cubic inches of the air space left in the cone?
ANSWER: 6π
841) Short Answer:

Triangle CAT has sides measuring 6 inches, 8 inches, and 10 inches. Triangle DOG has sides measuring 3 inches, 4 inches,
and 5 inches. In either order, what is the ratio of the measures of the smallest angles in the two triangles?
ANSWER: 1 TO 1 (ACCEPT: 1)

The distance between the points (11, 1) and (-3.5, 16.5) is between which of the following pairs of numbers?
W) 20 and 21
X) 21 and 22
Y) 22 and 23
Z) 23 and 24
ANSWER:
X) 21 AND 22
843) Short Answer:

If 5x + 3y = 8 and 6x + 2y = 10, what is y – x?
ANSWER: -2
844) Short Answer:

An aquarium is 12 inches long, 10 inches wide, and 10 inches deep. It is filled with 8 inches of water. A rock is dropped into
the water, and the water level rises 2 inches. What is the volume of the rock in cubic inches?
ANSWER: 240
845) Short Answer:

When a number is tripled, then tripled once more, the result equals 1. What was the original number?
ANSWER: 1/9
846) Short Answer:

What is the fiftieth term in the arithmetic sequence with first term -23 and second term -18?
ANSWER: 222
847) Short Answer:

What is the domain of the relation consisting of the four ordered pairs (3, -1), (4, 2), (-2, 5), (1, 0)?
ANSWER: {3, 4, -2, 1} (in any order)

Which of the following sets of numbers can be the side lengths of an acute triangle?
W) 9, 12, 17
X) 10, 18, 20
Y) 5, 18, 19
Z) 8, 15, 17
ANSWER:
X) 10, 18, 20
849) Short Answer:

To which real number is 𝑖8 equivalent?
ANSWER: 1
850) Short Answer:

John sails his 10 meter sailboat due west for 10 kilometers, then due north for 7 kilometers, then another 14 kilometers due
west. How far in kilometers is John from his original position?
ANSWER: 25
851) Short Answer:

A circle of radius r is inscribed in a square. What is the area of the square in terms of r?
ANSWER: 4r2
852) Short Answer:

What are the coordinates of the image of the point (2, -4) after a 90° rotation clockwise around the origin?
ANSWER: (-4, -2)

3 4
Which of the following best describes the graph of this system of equations: y = 4 x + 2 and y = 3 x + 4?
W) They are parallel
X) They are perpendicular
Y) They are skewed
Z) They intersect at one point
ANSWER:
Z) THEY INTERSECT AT ONE POINT
854) Short Answer:

Find the discriminant of the following equation, and then state the number of rational, irrational, and imaginary solutions,
respectively: 6n2 + n – 3 = 7 + 2n.
ANSWER: DISCRIMINANT = 241; TWO IRRATIONAL SOLUTIONS (ACCEPT: 0 RATIONAL, 2 IRRATIONAL, 0 IMAGINARY or 0, 2,
0)
855) Short Answer:

What is log5 625 [log base 5 of 625]?
ANSWER: 4

A parabola, when graphed on a coordinate plane, has a vertex at (-1, 3) and opens to the right. Which of the following could
possibly be the equation for this parabola?
W) x = y2 + 2y – 2
X) x = y2 + 2y + 4
Y) x = y2 –6y + 8
Z) x = y2 – 6y + 10
ANSWER:
Y) x = y2 –6y + 8

Which of the following is equal to the imaginary number i3?
W) -1
X) 1
Y) i
Z) -i
ANSWER:
Z) -i
858) Short Answer:
What are the largest possible real domain and range, respectively, of the following function: [f of x equals 4
over the quantity x plus 1]?
ANSWER: DOMAIN = ALL REALS EXCEPT -1; RANGE = ALL REALS EXCEPT 0
859) Short Answer:

What is √1,600 divided by √0.04?
ANSWER: 200
860) Short Answer:

Classify the following conic section and provide its equation in vertex form: -x2 + 10x + y – 21 = 0.
ANSWER: PARABOLA; y = (x – 5)2 – 4
861) Short Answer:

What is the numerical value of 852 [85 squared]?
ANSWER: 7225
862) Short Answer:

Three fair standard dice are rolled. Given that one of the numbers rolled is even, as a fraction in lowest terms, what is the
probability that at least two of them are even?
ANSWER: 4/7

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