Question 1

The diagram shows part of a scale of a measuring device. The arrow indicates an approximate reading of

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Question 2

The product

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Question 3

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Question 4

The figure consists of alternating light and dark squares. The number of dark squares exceeds the number of light squares by

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Question 5

If is a right angle, then this protractor indicates that the measure of is approximately

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Question 7

is closest to

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Question 8

Betty used a calculator to find the product . She forgot to enter the decimal points. The calculator showed . If Betty had entered the decimal points correctly, the answer would have been

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Question 9

An isosceles triangle is a triangle with two sides of equal length. How many of the five triangles on the square grid below are isosceles?

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Question 10

Chris' birthday is on a Thursday this year. What day of the week will it be days after her birthday?

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Question 11

is

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Question 12

Suppose the estimated billion dollar cost to send a person to the planet Mars is shared equally by the million people in the U.S. Then each person's share is

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Question 13

If rose bushes are spaced about foot apart, approximately how many bushes are needed to surround a circular patio whose radius is feet?

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Question 14

and are whole numbers and . The largest possible value of is

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Question 15

The reciprocal of is

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Question 16

Placing no more than one in each small square, what is the greatest number of 's that can be put on the grid shown without getting three 's in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally?

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Question 17

The shaded region formed by the two intersecting perpendicular rectangles, in square units, is

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Question 18

The average weight of boys is pounds and the average weight of girls is pounds. The average weight of the children is

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Question 19

What is the number in the arithmetic sequence:

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Question 20

The glass gauge on a cylindrical coffee maker shows that there are cups left when the coffee maker is full. How many cups of coffee does it hold when it is full?

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Question 21

A fifth number, , is added to the set to make the mean of the set of five numbers equal to its median. The number of possible values of is

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Question 22

Tom's Hat Shoppe increased all original prices by . Now the shoppe is having a sale where all prices are off these increased prices. Which statement best describes the sale price of an item?

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Question 23

Maria buys computer disks at a price of for <\dollar> and sells them at a price of for <dollar/> . How many computer disks must she sell in order to make a profit of <\dollar/> ?

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Question 24

The square in the first diagram "rolls" clockwise around the fixed regular hexagon until it reaches the bottom. In which position will the solid triangle be in diagram ?

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Question 25

A palindrome is a whole number that reads the same forwards and backwards. If one neglects the colon, certain times displayed on a digital watch are palindromes. Three examples are: , , and . How many times during a -hour period will be palindromes?

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Answer Keys

Question 1: D
Question 2: C
Question 3: D
Question 4: B
Question 5: C
Question 6: E
Question 7: B
Question 8: B
Question 9: D
Question 10: A
Question 11: E
Question 12: C
Question 13: D
Question 14: E
Question 15: C
Question 16: E
Question 17: B
Question 18: C
Question 19: A
Question 20: C
Question 21: C
Question 22: E
Question 23: D
Question 24: A
Question 25: A