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Question 2

Which of the following is not equal to ?

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Question 3

What is the largest difference that can be formed by subtracting two numbers chosen from the set

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Question 4

During the softball season, Judy had hits. Among her hits were home run, triple and doubles. The rest of her hits were singles. What percent of her hits were singles?

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Question 5

A circle of diameter is removed from a rectangle, as shown. Which whole number is closest to the area of the shaded region?

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Question 6

Suppose that means . For example, is

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Question 7

The digit-sum of is

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Question 8

A store owner bought pencils at each. If he sells them for each, how many of them must he sell to make a profit of exactly ?

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Question 9

The population of a small town is . The graph indicates the number of females and males in the town, but the vertical scale-values are omitted. How many males live in the town?

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Question 10

An isosceles right triangle with legs of length is partitioned into congruent triangles as shown. The shaded area is

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Question 11

The bar graph shows the results of a survey on color preferences. What percent preferred blue?

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Question 12

The five tires of a car (four road tires and a full-sized spare) were rotated so that each tire was used the same number of miles during the first miles the car traveled. For how many miles was each tire used?

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Question 13

Five test scores have a mean (average score) of , a median (middle score) of and a mode (most frequent score) of . The sum of the two lowest test scores is

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Question 14

When four gallons are added to a tank that is one-third full, the tank is then one-half full. The capacity of the tank in gallons is

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Question 15

What is the letter in this sequence?

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Question 16

Which cylinder has twice the volume of the cylinder shown above?

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Question 17

The sides of a triangle have lengths , , and , where is a whole number. What is the smallest possible value of ?

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Question 18

On a trip, a car traveled miles in an hour and a half, then was stopped in traffic for minutes, then traveled miles during the next hours. What was the car's average speed in miles per hour for the -hour trip?

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Question 19

The distance between the and exits on an interstate highway is miles. If any two exits are at least miles apart, then what is the largest number of miles there can be between two consecutive exits that are between the and exits?

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Question 20

Which pattern of identical squares could NOT be folded along the lines shown to form a cube?

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Question 21

Northside's Drum and Bugle Corps raised money for a trip. The drummers and bugle players kept separate sales records. According to the double bar graph, in what month did one group's sales exceed the other's by the greatest percent?

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Question 22

Eight square tiles are arranged as shown so their outside edges form a polygon with a perimeter of units. Two additional tiles of the same size are added to the figure so that at least one side of each tile is shared with a side of one of the squares in the original figure. Which of the following could be the perimeter of the new figure?

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Question 23

If two dice are tossed, the probability that the product of the numbers showing on the tops of the dice is greater than is

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Question 24

Four circles of radius are arranged as shown. Their centers are the vertices of a square. The area of the shaded region is closest to

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Question 25

One half of the water is poured out of a full container. Then one third of the remainder is poured out. Continue the process: one fourth of the remainder for the third pouring, one fifth of the remainder for the fourth pouring, etc. After how many pourings does exactly one tenth of the original water remain?

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Answer Keys

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