Sample Practice Test 1

Last Updated on February 14, 2024.

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1. On September 11, 2001, planes were flown into the World Trade Center towers and what other building?
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2. Even if the Federal Government passes a law, the Supreme Court can overturn that law …
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3. Read the text and answer the question.

Amendment IVThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. What’s true? Amendment four …
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4. Constitutions are economic documents as well as political documents. This is certainly true of the Constitution of the United States. Our nation’s founders believed that economic freedom as well as political freedom are essential for national prosperity and growth.Accordingly, they included numerous provisions in the Constitution that support and encourage the operation of a market economy. Which is NOT a characteristic of a Market Economy?
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5. Xylem carries water and nutrients from the soil, up into the leaves. The water is used to carry out photosynthesis, the products of which are sugar and oxygen.

If the xylem in a young tree is damaged, which process is first affected?
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6. What is the first step in the scientific method?
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7. In fruit flies, red eyes are dominant (E). White eyes are recessive (e).
If the female fly has white eyes and the male fly has homozygous dominant red eyes, what is the probability of offspring having red eyes?

Look at this Punnett square and answer the question.

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8. A caterer charges $120 to cater a party for 15 people and $200 for 25 people. If a caterer graphed an equation representing cost per person, what would be the graph's slope?
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9. What is the slope of the line from the equation:

\(x - 2y=10?\)
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10. The perimeter of a college athletic field is 96 meters and the length is 16 meters more than the width. Let L represent the length and let W represent the width.

Which equation represents the length?
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11. Maria rents a gym for $150.00 for 30 students. Another time Maria rents the gym for $270.00 for 70 students. If Maria graphed an equation that would represent her cost per student, what would be the slope of the graph?
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12. Karen calculates the volume of cylinder A with a radius of 3 inches, and a height of 6 inches. The volume of this cylinder is 54π in³. Cylinder B also has a radius of 3 inches, but the height is doubled.

What is the relationship between the volumes of the two cylinders?
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13. Julia took \(5\) practice tests before the final exam. She scored \(85, 89, 95, 81\: and\: 99\) points in these \(5\) exams. What was her average score?
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14. Determine whether the given relation is a function.

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15. Choose the correct formal version.
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16. Choose the sentences that demonstrate faulty parallel construction.
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17. Which sentence contains an incorrectly placed modifier?
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18. What is an argument? 
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19. Use rules of exponents and rewrite this expression as a single exponent.

\(6^{9} \div 6^{3}\)
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20. In a forest ecosystem, about 12 percent of the 400 different animal species are birds. How many bird species are in this ecosystem
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