Question 1

Which pair of numbers does NOT have a product equal to ?

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Question 2

When the fraction is expressed in simplest form, then the sum of the numerator and the denominator will be

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Question 3

Which of the following numbers has the largest prime factor?

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Question 4

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Question 5

Which one of the following bar graphs could represent the data from the circle graph?

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Question 6

A can of soup can feed adults or children. If there are cans of soup and children are fed, then how many adults would the remaining soup feed?

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Question 7

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Question 8

To control her blood pressure, Jill's grandmother takes one half of a pill every other day. If one supply of medicine contains pills, then the supply of medicine would last approximately

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Question 9

Consider the operation defined by the following table:

For example, . Then

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Question 10

This line graph represents the price of a trading card during the first months of .

The greatest monthly drop in price occurred during

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Question 11

Consider this histogram of the scores for students taking a test:

The median is in the interval labeled

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Question 12

If each of the three operation signs, , , , is used exactly ONCE in one of the blanks in the expression

then the value of the result could equal

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Question 13

The word "HELP" in block letters is painted in black with strokes unit wide on a by rectangular white sign with dimensions as shown. The area of the white portion of the sign, in square units, is

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Question 14

The nine squares in the table shown are to be filled so that every row and every column contains each of the numbers . Then

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Question 15

The arithmetic mean (average) of four numbers is . If the largest of these numbers is , then the mean of the remaining three numbers is

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Question 17

Square corners, units on a side, are removed from a unit by unit rectangular sheet of cardboard. The sides are then folded to form an open box. The surface area, in square units, of the interior of the box is

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Question 18

The rectangle shown has length , width , and and are midpoints of and , respectively. The area of quadrilateral is

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Question 19

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Question 20

When is expressed as a single whole number, the sum of the digits is

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Question 21

If the length of a rectangle is increased by and its width is increased by , then the area is increased by

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Question 22

Pat Peano has plenty of 0's, 1's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's and 9's, but he has only twenty-two 2's. How far can he number the pages of his scrapbook with these digits?

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Question 23

Five runners, , , , , , have a race, and beats , beats , beats , and finishes after and before . Who could NOT have finished third in the race?

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Question 24

What number is directly above in this array of numbers?

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Question 25

A checkerboard consists of one-inch squares. A square card, inches on a side, is placed on the board so that it covers part or all of the area of each of squares. The maximum possible value of is

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Answer Keys

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