John is taking a test that has ten questions. Each question has four answer choices with only one correct answer. Which of the following expressions shows the probability that John could answer all ten questions correctly by randomly guessing the correct answers?
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Which investment showed the least change in value?
What OTHER point on the grid is on the line passing through the two points shown?
In what year was the frog population the greatest?
A library features its new books on a cart. The new books this month are 12 mystery books, 6 biographies, and 2 poetry collections.
If Donald randomly selects a book from the cart, what is the probability that he will select a poetry collection?
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The cost to hire Mighty Mo Movers to deliver goods is based on the following formula:
C = 0.1w + 2.75d + 50
C is the total cost in dollars; w is the weight of the goods in pounds; and d is the distance in miles that the goods are delivered.
The Kales are moving to a new house that is 40 miles from their present home. They have budgeted $500 for their move.
What is the maximum weight of goods, in pounds, that the Kales can afford to hire Mighty Mo Movers to deliver and still stay within their budget?
A rectangular garden was separated into two equal areas by placing a fence along a diagonal of the rectangle, as shown in the diagram below.
What is the length (d), in feet, of the diagonal fence?
A sales supervisor assigns Asha, Bella, Cameron, Donnell, and Ernesto to work the cash register on a rotating daily basis.The rotation begins with Asha on the first day and continues in alphabetical order, as shown in the pattern below, which uses their initials.
A, B, C, D, E, A, B, C, D, E, …
Who is assigned to work the cash register on the 46th day?
The remainder of a bolt of fabric, 971/2 inches long, is to be cut into 3 pieces. One piece is to be 22 inches long, and the other two are to be of equal length. What will be the length, in inches, of each of the two equal pieces?
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At Gray’s Garden Shop, flowering plants are sold in trays of 12 for $19 or separately for $2 each. George bought one tray of 12 plants and 6 individual plants.
Which of the following expressions equals the average price, in dollars, of the plants George bought?
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A rectangular photograph has a length of 10 inches and a width of 6 inches. What is the area, in square inches, of the photograph?
How much MORE does it cost to use Advanced Access service for 6 hours per month than to use the same service for 2 hours per month?
It takes Brian 1 hour and 20 minutes to drive to school. At what time should he leave home to be at school at 10 P.M.?
Debra’s job description allocates her time among her tasks as shown in the graph at the left.
If Debra works 40 hours this week, how many of those hours should be spent on customer service?
On the grid, what is the location of point D, the fourth vertex of the parallelogram?
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Harry estimates that he calls long distance for no more than 20 minutes per month. Using that estimate, from how many option plans can he choose and have a long-distance charge of $1.00 or less?
If x = 5 and y = 2x + 2, what is the value of y ?
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In the diagram below, ABCD is a rectangle, and BE = BC
What is the measure, in degrees, of angle AEC?
A painter uses the formula C = 20h + 20c to determine how much he should charge a customer in dollars if a job takes h hours and c cans of paint. How much should the painter charge if it took 15 hours and 3 cans of paint to paint a house?
It takes Raymond 1 hour and 40 minutes to drive to his parents’ house. Raymond’s brother Carl can get to their parents’ house in half that time because he lives closer.
If Raymond leaves for his parents’ home at 00 P.M., what time should Carl leave if they plan to arrive at the same time?
Which city is projected to have the smallest increase in population by 2015?
What was the amount of the bonus that Wanda used to open her savings account?
Expressions for the measures of the angles of a triangle are shown in the diagram below.
Which of the following equations would be used to find the value of x?
Student tickets to a high school music concert cost $3 less than adult tickets. One student ticket and one adult ticket can be purchased for less than $15.
If x is the cost of one adult ticket to the concert, which of the following statements is correct?
A line has a slope of1/2and passes through the point (-4,1). Part of the line is shown below.
What is the location of the point where the line intersects the y-axis?
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A vegetable garden is divided into areas for growing different vegetables. The layout of the garden is shown in the diagram at the left.
How much GREATER, in square feet, is the area for growing beans than the area for growing squash?
A community is concerned about the high volume of commuter traffic in front of its elementary school between 8:30 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. The numbers of cars that passed without dropping off a student during that half hour on consecutive school days are:
65, 72, 83, 96, 53, 76, 54, 70, 75, 48, 56.
What is the mean (average) of these numbers of cars?
Dwayne’s dentist appointment is at 20 p.m. He plans to allow 45 minutes for the trip from home to the dentist’s office. At what time should he leave his home so that he will arrive at the dentist’s office exactly at 20 p.m.?
What is the volume, in cubic meters, of a railway boxcar that is 10 meters long,2 meters wide, and 3 meters high?
If the interest is compounded continuously, which of the following is the best estimate of the worth of each $1.00 invested for 3 years at 6.75%?
Which of the following represents the PERIMETER of the rectangle?
Two groups collected aluminum cans for a recycling drive. The first group had 40 members, and each collected 18 cans. The second group had half as many members, but each collected twice as many cans as any member of the first group had.
What was the total number of cans collected by the two groups?
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For how many minutes of long-distance use per month are the costs of all four plans the same?
What is the length, in inches, of the diagonal brace?
Seats in an auditorium are numbered in order from 1 to 150. The seat that is numbered 7 and every 35th seat thereafter has a card taped beneath it to indicate that the person sitting there has won a prize.
What is the highest numbered seat in which a person can win a prize?
What is the minimum length, in inches, of chain needed to reach from the anchor to the end of the sign?
How many hours does it take to empty the generator’s gasoline tank?
To create a vegetable garden, Lian plans to enclose a 200-square-foot portion of her backyard with fencing. How many feet of fencing will she need?
A triangle that does not contain a right angle has one side that measures 15 cm and another that measures 6 cm.
What is the measure, in centimeters, of the third side of the triangle?
In the figure at the left, parallel lines RQ and TS are intersected by a third line.
What is the measure of angle PQR?
If a helicopter flies at an average speed of 80 kilometers per hour, approximately how long will it take to travel 650 kilometers?
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Three vertices of a square are shown on the graph below.
What is the location of the fourth vertex of the square?
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If a person randomly selects a drink, what is the probability that it will be a type of milk?
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If the letter y represents a negative number, which of the following represents a positive number?