Diagnostic Test for Math Teachers

PSAT 10 Practice Test 351

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The total profit p , in dollars, from producing A car traveled at an average speed of 65 miles per
and selling x units of barbecue grill is given by hour for 4 hours and consumed fuel at a rate of 32
the function p ( x) = kx − (b + 500) , in which k miles per gallon. If the price of gasoline was $2.79
per gallon, what was the cost of gasoline, to the
and b are constants. When 120 barbecue grills nearest cent, for the four hour trip?
were produced and sold, the total profit was
$15,000 and when 200 barbecue grills were
produced and sold, the total profit was $27,000. A) $22.67
What is the value of b ? B) $24.74
C) $26.09
A) 1,850
D) $27.32
B) 2, 000
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D) 2,500
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Arnold purchased a shirt and a pair of running
shoes. The price of the shirt was s dollars and x −3 −1 1 3
the price of the running shoes was 10 dollars less
than twice the price of the shirt. He paid 8% tax f ( x) −1 0 1 2
for both the shoes and the shirt. If he paid 50%
of the total purchase price with his debit card and
paid the rest with cash, how much cash, in dollars,
The table above shows some values of the linear
did he pay in terms of s ?
function f . Which of the following defines f ?

A) 1.08s − 3.6
1 1
B) 1.62 s − 5.4 A) f ( x) = − x +
2 2
C) 2.16 s − 7.2
1 1
B) f ( x) = − x −
D) 2.7 s − 9 2 2
1 1
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2 2
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D) f ( x) = x−
2 2
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Questions 5 and 6 refer to the following If 5 − n ≥ 2 , what is the greatest possible value of
information.
n+2?
180(n − 2)
A= A) 2
n
B) 3
The formula above shows the relationship between
A , the measure of each angle of a regular polygon, C) 4
and n , the number of sides of a regular polygon. D) 5

5
Which of the following expresses the number of
sides in terms of the measure of an angle?

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A − 180
A) n =
360
 x − y < −2

B) n =
A
−2  x + y ≥1
360
1 y
C) n = 180 A −
2 section B

360
D) n =
180 − A section C section A
x
O

section D
6
For which of the following number of sides will
the measure of an angle be 144 degrees?
A graph and a system of inequalities are shown
above. Which section of the graph could represent
all of the solutions to the system?
A) 6
B) 8 A) Section A

C) 10 B) Section B

D) 12 C) Section C
D) Section D
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Questions 11 and 12 refer to the following
A cubic meter of titanium weighs 4,540 kilograms. information.
How much will 2,000 cubic centimeters of titanium
weigh, in kilograms? (1 m = 100 cm) Danny needs $450 to buy an iPad. He has already
saved $120. He plans to earn the rest of the money
by working at an office supply store. His savings
A) 0.908 can be modeled by the equation y = 9.5 x + 120 ,
B) 9.08 in which x represents the number of hours he
worked at the office supply store, and y represents
C) 90.8
his total savings.
D) 908

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Which of the following best describes the meaning
of the number 9.5 in the equation?

10 A) The number of hours Danny works for the

office supply store in one day.
2 B) The number of hours Danny works for the
When number n is divided by , the result is
3 office supply store in one week.
the same as 6 less than 2n . What is the
C) The amount Danny get paid per day from
2 the office supply store.
value of n ?
3
D) The amount Danny get paid per hour from
the office supply store.
A) 12
B) 10
C) 8
D) 6
12
What is the minimum number of hours Danny
needs to work at the office supply store to save
enough money to buy an iPad?

A) 33 hours
B) 34 hours
C) 35 hours
D) 36 hours
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If the average (arithmetic mean) of 2, a , and b
h = −4.9t 2 + 40t
is 2x , what is the average of a and b in terms
of x ?
The equation above expresses the height h , in
meters, of an object t seconds after it is thrown
A) 2 x − 1 into the air from the ground with an initial speed
B) 2 x − 2 of 40 meters per second. After approximately how
many seconds will the object reach its highest
C) 3 x − 1 point?
D) 3 x − 2
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6

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If a equals 120 percent of a number, then 40
percent of that number is
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1 The graph of a line on the xy - plane passes
A) a
3 through points (−3,1) and (3,5). The graph of
B) 0.48a a second line contains the point (6, 0). If the
two lines are parallel, what is the y - intercept
C) 3a
of the second line?
D) 4.8a
A) −1
B) −2
C) −3
D) −4
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The length and width of a large picture are
respectively 18 inches and 12 inches. If each y
dimension is reduced by x inches to make the 1
ratio of length to width 5 to 3, what is the value y= x+b
2
of x ?
(c, d )
x
A) 6 O
B) 5 ( a, b)
C) 4
D) 3

1
In the graph above, line y = x + b intersects
2
the y - axis at point (a, b) and intersects the
x- axis at point (c, d ) . If the value of b is
equal to −3.5 , what is the value of c ?

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A) 5.5
In a music store, 25% of the compact discs are
B) 7
classical. Out of these, 60% are on sale. If not
more than 450 classical CDs are on sale, what C) 8.5
could be the maximum number of CDs in the
store? D) 10

A) 2, 600
B) 2,800
C) 3, 000 20
D) 3, 200
If y = kx 2 , in which k is a constant, and y = −12
when x = −4 , what is the value of y when x = 2 ?

A) −6
B) −3
C) 3
D) 6
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y
1
f ( x) = x−k
3
x
(−2,0) O (8,0)
In the function above, k is a constant. If
y = f ( x) 3
f (−3) = k , what is the value of f (− ) ?
2

A) −1
1
B) −
2
In the xy - plane above, (−2, 0) and (8, 0) are
the two x- intercepts of the graph of f . If the C) 0
25 D) 1
minimum value of f is − , which of the
2
following is the y - intercept of the graph of f ?

A) (0, −8)

1
B) (0, −8 )
2
C) (0, −9)
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1
D) (0, −9 ) The value V , in dollars, of an artist’s painting
2
t years after it was purchased is given by the
t
function V (t ) = 5, 000(4)10 . What is the value,
in dollars, of the painting 15 years after it was
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purchased?
f ( x) = −2( x 2 + 7 x − 3) − a ( x + 2) + 1
A) $28, 000
In the polynomial f ( x) defined above, a is a
B) $32, 000
constant. If f ( x) is divisible by x , what is the
value of a ? C) $36, 000
D) $40, 000
5
A) −
2
B) −3
7
C)
2
D) 5
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A water tank in the shape of a rectangular prism
has a base length of 6 meters and a base width
c
of 4 meters. In the morning, 120 cubic meters of
b
water from the tank was used for planting. In the
afternoon, 125 percent more than the amount of x
water used in the morning was pumped into the a
tank. What is the increase in the height of the
water after the water was pumped into the tank, In the right triangle ABC above, which of the
in meters? following must be true?

1 b
A) 1 I. sin x =
4 c
b
3 II. cos(90 − x) =
B) 2 c
4
b
III. sin(90 − x) =
1 c
C) 4
2
1 A) I only
D) 6
4 B) II only
C) I and II only
D) I and III only

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
(5 x + 8)

y
(3 x − 4)
m

Note: Figure not drawn to scale.

In the figure above,   m and t ⊥  . What is

the value of y ?

A) 24
B) 28
C) 32
D) 36