5 SAT Math Practice Tests

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Time-25 Minutes 20 Questions

1. If the median of a set of five consecutive integers is equal to 13, then what is the value of the largest of these five integers?

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2. If x 4 x 3 x 1 3 , then what is the value of x ? (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

3. If the probability of selecting a red marble is 1 3 and the probability of selecting a blue marble is 2 3, what is the ratio of blue marbles to red marbles? (A) 1:2 (B) 3:2 (C) 2:1 (D) 2:3 (E) 3:1

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5. The ratio of a rectangles length to the length of a squares side is 3:1. If the area of the square is 36, and the rectangles width is 2, what is the area of the rectangle?

(A) 24 (B) 36 (C) 72 (D) 108 (E) 216

6. Given that | m 2 | = 7 and | n 3 | = 6, where m < 0 and n < 0, what is the value of mn? (A) 6 (B) 15 (C) 21 (D) 42 (E) 81

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7. The average of a, b, and c is 27. If the value of d is 19, what is the average of a, b, c, and d? (A) 7 (B) 11 (C) 25 (D) 28 (E) 46

10. A store determines the retail price of a DVD player by marking up its wholesale price by 60 percent. After a 25 percent discount off the DVD players retail price, the DVD player costs $162. What is the wholesale price of the DVD player? (A) 54 (B) 81 (C) 135 (D) 216 (E) 324

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11. If | -3x | + 4y-1 = 6z + 4x, what is the value of x in terms of y and z? (A) (y/4) 6z (B) (4/y) 6z (C) 4 (6z/y) (D) (4/7y) + (6z/7) (E) (7/4y) + 6z

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9. Nancy can make 5 bags per hour. Sue can make 6 bags per hour, and Ned can make 12 bags per hour. If Nancy and Sue make bags together for one hour, and then Ned joins them, how many minutes will it take them to make 126 bags? (A) 60 (B) 115 (C) 227 (D) 300 (E) 360

12. If a segment with a slope of two passes through points (2, 6) and (-2, -y), what is the value of y2?

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15. m, n, and p are three consecutive positive odd integers such that m < n < p. If their sum is 45, what is the value of mp? (A) 30 (B) 90 (C) 195 (D) 221 (E) 224

In the figure above, ray s begins at the origin and passes through point (-3, 2). Which of the following is not a possible value of the slope of line t?

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(A) 14. Bob buys s socks from the store each week. If each sock costs c cents, and he buys the same number of socks each day, what equation shows how many cents Bob spends on socks per day in terms of s and c? (A) sc (B) sc(s 7) (C) sc 7 (D) (sc)/7 (E) 7/(sc)

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value of c in terms of a? (A) 4/a (B) a2/16 (C) (a) / 4 (D) (4a) /a2 (E) (4a) / a

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17. If x is inversely proportional to y-1 and x = s when y-1 = 4t, then what is the value of y in terms of t when x = 4s?

(A) t 16 (B) t 4 (C) 1 t (D) t (E) 16t

18. Jordan is now four times older than Grace. In 30 years, he will be 18 years older than Grace. What is Jordans age now? (A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E) 48

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19. If u is inversely proportional to v1/2 and u = -5 when v1/2 = 3-1, then what is the value of v when u = -1?

(A) 1/12 (B) 1/25 (C) 5/6 (D) 5/3 (E) 25/9

20. Max decides to carve out a cylinder in a wooden cube. The cube has a side length of 6 cm, and the cylinder has a radius of 2 cm. What is the surface area of the cube after the cylinder has been carved out? (A) 216 24 (B) 216 16 (C) 144 24 (D) 216 16 (E) 18 36

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Time: 20 Minutes 16 Questions

1. It takes 6 seconds of pulling a lever to raise a pump to 24 feet. At this rate, how high is the pump after the lever is pulled for 2 seconds?

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2. What is the value of ( 3) 3 ( 4) 2 ? (A) -25 (B) -11 (C) 0 (D) 7 (E) 11

5. If a is an odd integer and b is an even integer, which of the following must be an odd integer?

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3. In the xy-plane, segment DE passes through points (2, 4) and (-4, 8). What is the midpoint of segment DE? (A) (-6, 4) (B) (-2, 12) (C) (-1, 6) (D) (5, 5) (E) (6, 4)

I. ab + 1 II. 2a + 2b III. 3(a b) (A) I only (B) II only (C) I and III (D) II and III (E) None of the Above

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6. If f(x) = -4x (3x 8), what is the value of f(2)?

9. Trent walked from Johns house three miles due north then four miles due east, while John walked six miles due south and eight miles due west. If John were to walk directly to Trents location, how many hours would it take him if John walks at a rate of three miles per hour? (A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 14 (E) 15

7. If a, b, and c are positive consecutive even integers and c > b > a, what is the value of b2 in terms of a?

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(A) a2 + 1 (B) (a 1)2 (C) (a + 2)2 (D) a2 + 4 (E) (a + 1)2

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8. If 3x + 2, 2x 10, and x 1 are integers, and x + 3 is the average of these numbers, then which of the following is a possible value of x? (A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9

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11. If k = m2n2, k is not 0, and the values of m and n are doubled, then the value of k increases by which of the following factors? (A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16

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The graph above represents y = f(x). If f(x) = 0, what is the sum of all the values of x?

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(A) -3 (B) -2 (C) -1 (D) 1 (E) 2 13. If 4c2 16e2 = | (-8d)2 |, then what is the value of c2 in terms of d and e? (A) 16d2 + 4e2 (B) 2(2d +e) (C) 4(d +e) (D) 64d2 + 16e2 (E) 16d2e2 14. If exactly three triangles are used to construct a rectangle, what is the minimum number of right triangles that can be used in the rectangles construction? (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 6

In the sequence above, each term after the first term, 18, is thirty less than four times the preceding term. What is the sum of the units digits of the first 12 terms? (A) 2 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 60 (E) 77

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Time-25 Minutes 18 Questions

1. The smallest integer of a set of consecutive integers is -13. If the sum of the integers is 14, what is the total number of integers in the set?

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2. If w is a positive integer and w2 = w3, then which of the following is a possible value of w? (A) -10 (B) -2 (C) -1 (D) 1 (E) 2

5. If p and q are consecutive negative even integers whose sum is -120, and q < p, what is the value of | q p |?

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3. If p and q are both even integers and r is an odd integer, which of the following expressions will not result in an answer that is even? (A) pr + q2 (B) q(p + r)p (C) (rq)2 p (D) (p r)q (E) r(p r) q

(A) -4 (B) -2 (C) 0 (D) 2 (E) 4

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6. In a sequence, the first term is -3. Each term after the first term is four less than two times the preceding term. Which term is the first one that has an absolute value greater than 200?

p x q 2 , then what is the value of q y p in terms of x and y?

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7. If x x x x is the value of x? (A) 1/2 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 1.5 (E) 2

8. If s2 = t -1 and t1/4 = u-1/3, then what is the value of s in terms of u? (A) u-2/3 (B) u-1/3 (C) u1/6 (D) u1/3 (E) u2/3

9. If the average of w and x is 30, the average of p and q is 30, and the average of m and n is 30, what is the average of w, x, p, q, m, and n?

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11. If y + z = 18 and 40 percent of 75 percent of p is the average of y and z, what is the value of p?

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14. a and b are positive consecutive integers and b > a. When b is seven more than a , what is the greatest possible value of a?

17. If x and y2 are directly proportional and x = 6 when y2 = 8, then what is the value of y-2 when x = 2?

15. If the graphs of y = 3x2 15 and y = -4x + p intersect at point (3, r), then what is the value of

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16. If xy = 3y 2(x + y), what is 24?

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Practice Test 1

Answer Key and Explanations

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Practice Test 1 Answer Key

Section 1 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. E 9. E 10. C 11. B 12. C 13. E 14. D 15. D 16. E 17. C 18. D 19. E 20. B

Section 3 1. D 2. D 3. E 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. E 9. 30 10. y / (2y + x) 11. 30 12. (12 3) / m or -3/m + 12 13. -y 14. 9 15. 2 16. 0 17. 3/8 or 0.375 18. -6 or 4

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Practice Test 1 Scoring

Finding Your Score Raw score: Total Number Right [Total Number Wrong 4] = _____ Notes: 1) For #9 - #18 in Section 3, only right answers are counted 2) Omissions are not counted towards your raw score 3) If the total number wrong 4 ends in .5 or .75, it is rounded up

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Scaled Score 800 800 780 770 750 730 720 710 700 690 680 670 660 660 650 640 630 630 620 610 600 590 590 580 570 560 550 550 540 530 520 Raw Score 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 and below Scaled Score 520 510 500 490 490 480 470 460 460 450 440 420 410 400 400 390 380 370 350 330 320 310 290 270 250 240 230 220 210 200 200

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