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Q12. Three consecutive odd integers are such that three times the middle integer is 25 more than the sum of the smallest and largest. Find the largest of the integers. Q11. Mrs. Teukolsky gave a test that was so difficult that she decided to scale the grades upward. She raised the lowest score, 42 to 60 and the highest score 77 to 90. A linear function that gives a fair way to convert any other test score x to the new score y is A) y = B) y = C) y = x + 11 x + 24 x + 96

D) y = x + 11 E) y = x + 24 Q18. In January, Team A will play a tennis match against Team B. In February, Team B will play a tennis match against Team C. In March, Team C will play against Team A. Team A has a 75 percent chance of winning whenever it plays. Teams B and C are evenly matched, each with a 50 percent chance of winning when they play each other. What is the probability that Team A will lose both of its matches, and Team B will win both of its matches? A) B) C) D) E) Q15. Lauren rode her bike from her house to a friends house 3.5 miles away. On the first leg of her trip, she rode uphill at 3 miles per hour. The second part of the trip covered a larger distance but was downhill, and Lauren rode at 5 miles per hour. If the downhill part of the ride took half and hour, how many minutes did the uphill part take? Q12. An ultramodern school building has weird, ultramodern clocks on the walls. In place of numerals from 1 to 12, a clock has 12 lights. The clock has no hour hand; instead, a flashing light signals the hour. The clock does, however, have a minute hand, which starts in a vertical position pointing up at 00, the start of the hour, and rotates clockwise through 360 degrees in 60 minutes. Here is how the clock shows various times:

9:00

7:50

3:05

At 9:30 in the morning, while the teacher is out of the classroom, some mischievous students rotate the clock through 90 degrees counterclockwise, without touching the hand. In the next instant, before the clock display changes, the teacher reenters the room. She glances at the clock. What time does she see? A) 6:15 B) 3:00 C) 3:45 D) 12:15 E) 12:45 Q9. A can contains pounds of cashews. The can is then filled with a mixture that has equal weights of cashews, pecans, and walnuts. If the final weight is 1 pound, what fraction of the final nut mixture is cashews? A) B) C) D) E) Q10. A charter company will provide a plane for a fare of $300 per person if there are between 50 and 100 passengers. If there are more than 100 passengers, then, for each additional passenger over 100, the fare will be reduced by $2 for every passenger. How much revenue will the company make if 120 passengers take the trip? A) $16,400 B) $24, 000 C) $31, 200 D) $35, 200 E) $36, 000 Q5. The ratio of number girls to number of boys at a certain school is 4:3. Which of the following could not be the number of students at the school? A) 1,430 B) 1,477 C) 1,547

D) 2,107 E) 2,450 Q13. The May flower Diner has a rule that dessert pies must be sliced so that the angle at the tip of a piece of pie (where the tip is at the center of the pie) lies between 20 and 30 degrees. Which of the following inequalities can be used to determine whether an angle a at the tip of a pie slice satisfies the rule? Q3. Tom purchased a hat and coat for a total of $125. The coat costs $25 more than the hat. What is the cost of the coat? A) $25 B) $50 C) $75 D) $100 E) $125 Q12. The weight of coffee in a bag is pound. A coffee company packages 12 of these packages in a case. If the coffee company fills an order for 4 cases, how many pounds of coffee will the company need to fill this order? Q9. Zoe won the raffle at a fair. She will receive the prize money in 5 monthly payments. If each payment is half as much as the previous months payment and the total of the payments is $496, what is the amount of the first payment? A) $256 B) $96 C) $84 D) $16 E) $4 Q14. The units digit of a two digit number is 3 times the tens digit. If the digits are reversed, the resulting number is 36 more than the original number. What is the original number? A) 26 B) 36 D) 39 E) 54 E) 93 Q15. A baseball team won 54 more games than it lost. If the team played a total of 154 games and there were no ties, how many games did the team win? A) 50 B) 98 C) 100 D) 102

E) 104 Q17. Committee A has 18 members and Committee B has 3 members. How many members from Committee A must switch to Committee B so that Committee A will have twice as many members as Committee B? A) 4 B) 6 C) 7 D) 11 E) 15 Q4. If 4 more than twice a number is 6 less than that number, what is the number? A) -10 B) 2 C) 10 D) 16 E) 24 Q7. Ashley is 7 years younger then Sarah and three times as old as Cindy. If Cindy is c years old, how old is Sarah in terms of c? A) c 7 B) C) + 7 D) 3c E) 3c + 7 Q13. Alice had to read 350 pages of a book over the weekend. If on Sunday, she read 50 pages more than half the amount she read on Saturday, how many pages did she read on Saturday? A) 150 B) 175 C) 200 D) 225 E) 250 Q15. Alan, Fred, and Mark are going to buy a computer that costs $540. If Alan pays $40 more than Fred and Fred pays twice as much as Mark, then how much does Mark pay? A) $100 B) $140 C) $160 D) $200

E) $240 Q16. Allie has three fewer than twice the number of coins that Jonathan has. If Jonathan gave 2 coins to Allie, she would have three times as many coins as he would. How many coins does Allie have? A) 2 B) 3 C) 5 D) 7 E) 9 Q7. As part of the high school physical fitness program, each of the 180 students in a school was required to sign up for exactly one activity: soccer, baseball, table tennis, or volley- ball. If half the students signed up for soccer, one-third signed up for baseball, and, of the remaining students, twice as many signed up for volleyball as signed up for table tennis, how many students signed up for table tennis? A) 5 B) 10 C) 15 D) 20 E) 30 Q12. Janet opened a full 32-ounce container of juice and poured 14 ounces into her glass. Karen drank two-thirds of what Janet left in the container. How many ounces of juice were still in the container after Karen drank her juice? Q9. The amount of liquid that has been pumped from a tank after t minutes is 2t + t2 gallons. How many gallons of liquid have been pumped from the tank after 3 minutes? Q3. A hotel charges a service fee of $1.00 per day to use its copy machine. In addition, there is a charge of $0.10 per copy made. Which of the following represents the total charge, in dollars, to use this copy machine to make n in one day? A) 0.90n B) 1.10n C) 1.00 + 10n D) 1.00 + 0.10n E) 1.00 + 0.10 + n

Q4. Charlie has built houses for 5 years less than twice as long as Maly has. If Maly has built houses for n years, which of the following expressions represents the number of years that Charlie has built houses? A) n 5 B) n + 5 C) 2n 5 D) 2n + 5 E) 5 2n Q4. Marcus can spend no more than $120 on jeans and shirts for school. He buys 3 pairs of jeans at $32 each. If x represents the dollar amount he can spend on shirts, which of the following inequalities could be used to determine the possible values of x? A) (3)*32 x 120 B) (3)*32 x 120 C) (3)*32 + x 120 D) (3)*32 + x 120 E) x (3)*32 Q5. If three times a number x is twelve more than x, what is x? A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 6 E) 9 Q14. A boat costs x dollars, and this cost is to be shared equally by a group of people. In terms of x, how many dollars less will each person contribute if there are 4 people in the group instead of 3? A) x/12 B) x/4 C) x/3 D) 7x/12

E) 7x Q17. The cost of a telephone call using long-distance carrier A is $1.00 for any time up to and including 20 minutes and $0.07 per minutes thereafter. The cost using long-distance carrier B is $0.06 per minute for any amount of time. For a call that lasts t minutes, the cost using carrier A is the same as the cost using carrier B. If t is a positive integer greater than 20, what is the value of t? Q14. The first of three numbers is 3 times the second number. The third number is 30 more than the second number. If the third number is represented by t and the sum of the first and the second numbers is 180, which of the following equations could be used to find the value of t? A) 3t + t = 180 B) 3t + (t 30) = 180 C) 3(t 30) + t = 180 D) 3(t 30) + (t 30) = 180 E) 3(t 30) + (t 30) + t = 180 Q3. At a certain music store, compact discs cost $15 each and tapes cost $12 each. Pauline buys x compact discs and y tapes and pays no tax. Which of the following represents the total she pays, in dollars, for x compact discs and y tapes? A) (15x)(12y) B) 15x + 12y C) 27(x + y) D) (15 + x) + (12 + y) E) (15 + x)(12 + y) Q13. Two consecutive positive even integers are represented by x and y, where x is less than y. The square of the smaller number is subtracted from the product of x and y. Which of the following represents this difference? A) x B) 2x C) 4x D) 2y E) 4y

Q8. If 75 percent of m equal to k percent of 25, where k > 0, what is the value of m/k? A) 3/16 B) 1/3 C) 3/4 D) 3 E) 16/3 Q12. Barbs motor scooter has a 2-gallon gas tank and can travel m miles on 1 gallon of gas. If gas costs $1.25 per gallon and Barb can spend d dollars to fill the tank; which of the following represents the amount od gas, in gallons, that was in the tank before she filled it? A) 2/1.25 B) (d/1.25) 2 C) 2 (d/1.25) D) 2 (md/1.25) E) 2 (m/d/1.25) Q19. The square of x is equal to 4 times the square of y. If x is 1 more than twice y, what is the value of x? A) -4 B) -1/2 C) -1/4 D) 1/4 E) 1/2 Q20. A telephone company charges x cents for the first minute of a call and charges y cents per minute. If a certain call costs 5.55 and lasts more than 1 minute, which of the following expressions represents the length of the call, in minutes A) (555 x)/y B) (555 + x y)/y C) (555 x + y)/y D) (555 x y)/y E) (555)/(x + y) Q2. Trains A, B and C passed through a station at different speeds. Train As speed was 3 times Train Bs speed, and Train Cs speed was twice Train As. What was Train Cs speed, in miles per hour, if Train Bs speed was 7 miles per hour? A) 14 B) 21

C) 28 D) 35 E) 42 Q2. If 13 is added to one half of a certain number, the results is 37. What is the original number? A) 24 B) 40 C) 48 D) 61 E) 80 Q6. Today, Joaquin has 45 cents in his piggy bank and Marcy has 93 cents in her piggy bank. Starting tomorrow, Joaquin will 6 cents to his bank each day and Marcy will add 4 cents to her bank each day. In how many days will the amount in Joaquins bank first be greater than the amount in Marcys bank? A) 5 B) 15 C) 20 D) 25 E) 58 Q11. Last week, the Grayson Furniture Store received $500 for each of the 24 sofas that it sold. The store also received $300 for each of the tables sold that week. If the total amount received by the store from the sale of the sofas was equal to the total amount received from the sales of the tables, how many more tables than sofas were sold last week? A) 16 B) 26 C) 36 D) 40 E) 60 Q9. When twice a certain number is increased by 5, the result is 14. What is the number? Q10. Three more than twice a number is equal is to 4. What is the number? Q14. Five times a number is the same as the number added to five. What is the number? Q17. Tom and Alison are both salespeople. Toms weekly compensation consists of $300 plus 20 percent of his sales. Alisons weekly compensation consists of $200 plus 25 percent of her sales. If they both had the same amount of sales and the same compensation for a particular week, what was that compensation, in dollars?

Q19. The toll for trucks to cross a certain bridge is a total of $2 for the first two axles plus $2 for each additional axle. Which of the following functions gives the toll T(n), in dollars, for a truck with n axles? A) T(n) = 2n 2 B) T(n) = 2n 1 C) T(n) = 2n D) T(n) = 2n + 1 E) T(n) = 2n + 2 Q1. Conall had a box of 36 candy bars to sell for a class fundraiser. He sold 10 of the bars on his own, and his mother sold half of the remaining bars to her coworkers. If no other bars were sold, what fraction of Conalls original 36 bars remained unsold? A) 5/8 B) 11/36 C) 1/3 D) 13/36 E) 7/18 Q9. When her sons class held its magazine drive, Dr. Nelson bought 7 one-year magazine subscriptions for the waiting room in her office. She bought 4 subscriptions that have 12 issues a year, 2 subscriptions that have 4 issues per year, and 1 subscription that has 52 issues per year. Altogether, how many magazines will her office receive from these subscriptions? Q4. On each of the day Monday through Friday, Toni spent 1 hour commuting to work and 1 hour commuting back home. What fraction of the total number of hours in these five days did she spend commuting? A) 1/12 B) 1/24 C) 5/12 D) 5/24 E) 10/168 Q11. Of all the students in a high school, on a certain day 2/3 rode the bus to school, 1/6 rode in a car, and the remaining students walked. What fraction of the schools students walked to school on that day? Q12. A certain physical fitness test lasts a total of 3 hours. Each part of the test requires the same amount of time, and 12-minute breaks are included between consecutive parts. If there are a total of 3 breaks during the 3 hours, what is the required time, in minutes, for each part of the test? A) 33 B) 36 C) 38

D) 45 E) 48 Q13. State University plans on accepting a total of 1,000 students for next years class. Of the 800 students accepted so far, 60 percent are female and 40 percent are male. How many of the remaining students to be accepted must be male in order for half of the total number of students accepted to be male? A) 100 B) 120 C) 160 D) 180 E) 200 Q15. Which of the following is equivalent to 1/2 of 23 percent of 618? A) 23% of 309 B) 23% of 309/2 C) 221/2% of 618 D) 23/2% of 309 E) 23/2 * 618 Q16. Of all the apartments in an apartment building, 20 percent are singlebedroom apartments,, and 30 percent of the single bedroom apartments have balconies. If 28 single-bedroom apartments do not have balconies, how many apartments are there in this apartment building?

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