1. Examine the figure below.

Triangle with sides of 12, 8, and 18

If the triangle is dilated by a scale factor of 2, what is the perimeter of the new triangle?

a.19

b.32

c.44

d.76

2. Examine the figures below.

Original rectangle with sides of 4 and 12 scaled rectangle with sides of 1 and 3

What scale factor was used to scale the rectangle?

a.¼

b.1/3

c.3

d.4

3. Which of the following sets of angles CANNOT be used to construct a triangle?

a. Three acute angles

b. Two acute angles and one right angle

c. Two acute angles and one obtuse angle

d. Two right angles and one acute angle

4. If the right rectangular prism shown below was horizontally sliced, which of the following shapes
would BEST describe the resulting two-dimensional shape?

Rectangular prism with length and width of 4 and height of 10

a. Parallelogram

b. Rectangle

c. Rhombus
d. Square

5. Kevin is planting vegetables in his garden. If the garden is in the shape of a circle with a diameter of 10
feet, what is the area of the garden?

a. 15.7 ft2

b. 31.4 ft2

c. 78.5 ft2

d. 314 ft2

6. Tory went to see a Monster Truck show at the local arena. Before the show, Tory got to see the trucks
up close. He noticed that each monster truck tire had a radius of about 3 ft. Based on that radius, what
would be the distance around each tire?

a. 9.42 ft

b. 18.8 ft

c. 28.3 ft

d. 113 ft

7. Examine the figure below.

Angle of the 35 degrees, other side of angle is (10x-5) degrees

What is the value of x?

a.4

b.6

c.15

d.21

8. What is the measure of ?DBC?

Graph with ray D. 5x degrees on one side of the ray 4x degrees on the other side

a.10°

b.20°

c.40°

d.50°
9. Jason is building a desk for his bedroom. He wants the desk to fit in the corner of his room and decides
to go with a trapezoid design. If Jason uses the dimensions shown in the picture below, how many
square feet of plywood will he need to build the desk top?

Trapezoid. Long side is 5ft, other sides are 3ft and 1ft, height of 2 ft

a.5 ft2

b.6 ft2

c.9 ft2

d.12 ft2

10. Natalie recently bought a jewelry box, but she wants to re-cover the box with a more colorful fabric.
If the jewelry box is a cube with sides 8 cm long, how much fabric will Natalie need in order to cover all
sides of the box?

a. 64 cm2

b. 192 cm2

c. 384 cm2

d. 512 cm2

Answers and Explanations

1. D: Since the original triangle is dilated by a scale factor of 2, the length of each side will be multiplied
by 2 to get the side lengths of the new triangle. Therefore, 8×2=16, 12×2=24, and 18×2=36. Then,
16+24+36=76. Answer A results if each of the side lengths was incorrectly divided by 2. Answer B results
if 2 was incorrectly subtracted from each of the side lengths. Answer C results if 2 was incorrectly added
to the length of each side.

2. A: To determine the scale factor, take the side lengths of the scaled rectangle and divide them by the
corresponding sides of the original rectangle: 1/4=1/4 and 3/12=1/4. Therefore, the scale factor used to
scale the rectangle is 1/4. Answer B results if the scale factor was incorrectly determined by dividing the
sides within each rectangle in the order of 4/12=1/3and 1/3=1/3. Answer C results if the scale factor was
incorrectly determined by dividing the sides within each rectangle in the order of 12/4=3 and 3/1=3.
Answer D results if the scale factor was incorrectly set up to have the original side lengths divided by the
values of the scaled side lengths: 12/3=4 and 4/1=4.

3. D: In order to construct a triangle, the three angles must sum to 180°. In Answer D, the two right
angles by themselves would sum to180°, so adding an acute angle to that value would make the sum
greater than 180°. Therefore, a triangle cannot be constructed with two right angles. Answers A, B, and C
are all possible angle options for constructing a triangle.
4. D: Horizontally slicing the right rectangular prism would create slices that are parallel to the base of
the prism. Since the base of the prism is a square with sides of length 4, each of the horizontal slices
would also be in the shape of a square. Answers A and C are the shapes that the base appears to be if
one does not take into account the drawing of the 3-D image and that the prism is a right rectangular
prism. Answer B is the resulting two-dimensional shape if the prism was vertically sliced.

5. C: The formula for the area of a circle is A=pr2. Since the diameter of the garden is 10 ft, the radius of
the garden is 5 ft. Therefore, A=3.14(5 “ft” )2=78.5″ft” 2. Answer A is the result if the radius was not
squared, i.e. ?r. Answer B is the result if the circumference of the garden was calculated. Answer D is the
result of using the diameter in the area formula.

6. B: The distance around each tire is the circumference of the circle: C=2pr=2(3.14)(3 “ft” )=18.84 “ft” .
Answer A is the result if the radius was not doubled. Answer C is the area inside of the tire. Answer D is
the result if the diameter was used in the area formula.

7. C: The two angles shown in the figure are supplementary. In order to solve for x, the following
equation must be used: 10x-5+35=180. This equation simplifies as: 10x+30=180. After subtracting 30
from both sides, the equation becomes 10x=150. Finally, after dividing both sides by 10, the solution is
x=15. Answer A results from treating the angles as congruent and setting up the equation as 10x-5=35.
Answer B results from treating the angles as complementary and setting up the equation as 10x-
5+35=90. Answer D results if the equation was correctly set up as 10x+30=180, but then 30 was
incorrectly added to both sides to get 10x=210.

8. C: Before we can find measure of ?DBC, we first need to solve for x. Since ?ABD and ?DBC are
complementary, we need to use the equation m ?ABD + m ?DBC = 90. Substituting for the values of m ?
ABD and m ?DBC, the equation becomes 5x+4x=90. This equation simplifies as 9x=90. Finally, after
dividing both sides of the equation by 9, the result isx=10. To find the measure ?DBC, we substitute x=10
into (4x)° to get (4(10))°=40°. Answer A is the value of x. Answer B is the value of x if the angles were
treated as supplementary and set up as 5x+4x=180. Answer D is the measure of ?ABD.

9. B: The formula for the area of a trapezoid is A=1/2 h(b_1+b_2), where h is the height, and b1 & b2 are
lengths of the two bases. Therefore, A=1/2 (2 “ft” )(5 “ft” +1 “ft” )=1/2 (2 “ft” )(6 “ft” )=6 ?”ft” ?^2. In
Answer A, only the 5 ft base was used in the calculation. In Answer C, the 3 ft value was used for the
height. In Answer D, the 1/2 was left out of the formula, so the area was incorrectly calculated as
A=h(b_1+b_2).
10. C: The amount of fabric needed to cover the jewelry box is equal to the surface area of the box. The
formula for the surface area of a cube is SA=62, where s is the length of one side. Therefore, the surface
area of the jewelry box is SA=6(8 cm )2= 6(64cm)2 =384 cm 2. In Answer A, the area of only one side of
the box was calculated. In Answer B, the perimeter of one side of the box was multiplied by 6. In Answer
D, the volume of the box was calculated.