Practice Test 4: Level 1 343

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MATHEMATICS LEVEL 1

Directions: For each of the following problems, identify the BEST answer of the
choices given. If the exact numerical value is not one of the choices, select the answer
that is closest to this value. Then fill in the corresponding oval on the answer sheet.

1. Solve the system of equations x 1 y 5 2 3. A triangle has a base of 8 units and a

and 2x 2 3y 5 1. height of 6 units. A second triangle
with a base of 4 units and a height of
(A) S D
7 3
,
5 5
3 units overlaps the first triangle as
shown below. What is the difference
(B) (3, 7) in area between the two nonoverlap-
(C) (5, 23) ping regions of the two triangles?
(D) (7, 3)

(E) S D
3 7
,
5 5

2. If f(x) 5 2x, which of the following is

true?
(A) f(2a) 5 2f(a)
(B) f(2a) 5 f(a)
(C) f(ab) 5 f(a)f(b)

(D) f SD
a
b
5
f~a!
f~b!
(E) Both choices (A) and (C)
(A) 24 square units
(B) 6 square units
(C) 18 square units
(D) 12 square units
(E) Cannot be determined with the
given information.

4. If the vertex of a parabola f(x) is at

(1, 1), where is the vertex of
f(x 2 1) 2 2?
(A) (0, 21)
(B) (0, 3)
(C) (2, 3)
(D) (2, 21)
(E) (1, 1)

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5. The expression is equiva- 9. How many ways can a 10-question
a21 true-and-false exam be answered if
lent to no questions are left blank?
(A) b21 (A) 512
a1b (B) 100
(B)
a (C) 1,024
a1b (D) 10
(C) (E) 3,628,800
b
b 10. What is the y-intercept of
(D)
~a 1 b! 3y 2 2x 1 6 5 0?
a
(E) (A) (0, 3)
~a 1 b! (B) (0, 6)
(C) (0, 2)
6. If the discriminant of a quadratic
(D) (2, 0)
equation equals 24, the equation has
(E) (0, 22)
how many real roots?
(A) 0 11. The area of a circle whose radius
(B) 1 extends from (22, 5) to (5, 1) is
(C) 2 (A) 11p
(D) 3 (B) 25p
(E) 22 (C) 45p
(D) 65p
7. Given the figure below, find the value
(E) 9p
of x.
12. If f(x) 5 2x 1 b and f(22) 5 3,
b equals
(A) 7
(B) 21
(C) 1
(D) 28
(E) 27

13. If x3 2 2x2 1 ax 1 9 is exactly

divisble by x 1 3, a equals
(A) 22
(B) 22 and 2 (A) 210
(C) 2 (B) 212
(D) 8 (C) 7
(E) None of the above (D) 16
(E) 10
8. If (a 1 3i)(2 1 i) 5 7 1 11i, what is
the value of a? 14. The slope of the line 3x 2 2y 5 6 is
(A) 2 (A) 3
(B) 5 (B) 23
(C) 3 3
(D) 25 (C)
2
(E) 22 23
(D)
2
2
(E)
3

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15. A swimming pool is 40 feet long and 19. The four points A(3, 3), B(7, 3),
4 feet deep at one end. If it is 8 feet C(5, 5), and D(9, 5) are the vertices
deep at the other end, find the total of a parallelogram. The points A8, B8,
distance in feet along the bottom. C8, and D8 are found by multiplying
each of the x coordinates of A, B, C,
(A) 40
and D, respectively, by 21. Find the
(B) 40.20
difference between the areas of
(C) 44
parallelogram ABCD and parallelo-
(D) 40.79
gram A8B8C8D8.
(E) 40.15
(A) 15
16. Which of the following functions is (B) 6
one to one? (C) 4
(A) f (x) 5 x2 1 1 (D) 10
(B) f (x) 5 3 (E) 0
(C) f (x) 5 =x
20. Given rectangle ABCD in the figure
(D) f (x) 5 x4 below with AB 5 12, BC 5 9, EB 5
(E) f (x) sin x BF 5 3, find the area of triangle
DEF.
17. The solution set to x2 2 6 , x is
(A) (22, 3)
(B) all real numbers except the
interval (22, 3)
(C) all real numbers except the
interval (23, 2)
(D) (23, 2)
(E) (2, 3)

18. If Joe can paint a house in 6 hours

and Jim can paint a house that is 45
(A)
exactly the same size in 5 hours, how 2
many hours does it take if both work (B) 27
together? (C) 35
83
(A) 5.5 (D)
(B) 5 2
(C) 3.27 (E) 51
(D) 2.52
(E) 2.73 21. The expression
=2 1 1 is equiva-
=2 21
lent to
(A) 3
(B) 21
(C) 5 1 =2
(D) 3 1 2=2
(E) 1

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22. Which statement illustrates the 3
commutative property of multi- 27. If sin x 5 and cos x , 0, then find
5
plication? tan x.
(A) a(b 1 c) 5 (b 1 c)a 4
(B) (ab)c 5 a(bc) (A) 2
3
(C) a (0) 5 0
3
(D) a(b 1 c) 5 ab 1 ac (B)
(E) a (1) 5 a 4
3
23. What is the range of cos x? (C) 2
4
(A) All real numbers 4
(B) (2`, `) (D)
3
(C) (21, 1) 4
(D) [21, 1] (E)
5
(E) (0, `)
28. Convert the binary number 101,101
24. If f(x) 5 x3 1 1, then f21(9) is
to a base 10 number.
(A) 730
(A) 45
(B) 2
3
(B) 18
(C) =3 (C) 46
3
(D) =10 (D) 22
(E) 1 (E) 90

25. Two circles, one inside the other, are
centered at the same point and are
5 units apart. What is the difference
between the circumferences of the
circles?
29. Given 7 dots, no 3 of which are on a
straight line, how many line seg-
ments need to be drawn to connect
every pair of dots with a straight
line?

5p (A) 21
(A) (B) 42
2
(C) 24
(B) 5p
(D) 32
(C) 10p
(E) 28
(D) 15p
(E) Cannot be determined from the 30. Find x for the triangle in the figure
given information below.
26. If x 5 2a, then 2a 1 3
equals
(A) x13
(B) x3
(C) 6x
(D) 8x
(E) 3x

(A) 25
(B) 35
(C) 20
(D) 30
(E) 15

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31. How many triangles are in the figure 35. If f(x) 5 2x 1 1 and g(x) 5 x 2 1,
below?
then what is the domain of SD
f
g
~x!?

(A) All real numbers

S D
1 1
(B) All real numbers except 2 ,
2 2
(C) All real numbers except (21, 1)
(D) All real numbers except 1
(E) All real numbers except (21, 1)

(A) 7 36. If the mode of a list of numbers is 10

(B) 9 and we add distinct numbers 7, 13,
(C) 17 18 to the list, then what number is
(D) 19 guaranteed to be a mode of the new
(E) 15 list?
(A) 11
32. The equation of the line that passes
(B) 18
through the point (23, 1) and is
(C) 7
perpendicular to 2y 2 x 5 8 is
(D) 13
(A) 4y 2 2x 5 21 (E) 10
(B) 2y 5 x 1 5
(C) y 5 2x 1 7 37. The figure below shows three of the
(D) y 1 2x 1 5 5 0 faces of a cube. If the six faces of the
(E) y 2 7 5 22x cube are numbered consecutively,
what could the sum of the numbers
33. The reciprocal of i is on all six faces be?
(A) i
(B) 1
(C) 21
(D) =21
(E) 2i

34. What is the cosine of 60 degrees?

=3
(A)
2
I. 240
3 II. 237
(B)
2 III. 243
1
(C) (A) I only
2 (B) II only
1 (C) III only
(D) 2 (D) I or II
2
=3 (E) II or III
(E) 2
2

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38. What is x in degrees where x is given 42. Two competing stores next to one
in the figure below? another carry the same brand of
shoes with the same list price of $100
n p
but at two different discount
schemes. Shoe Store A offers a 20%
l
discount year-round for shoes more
than 60 dollars, but on this particu-
lar day it offers an additional
m
discount of 10% off their already
discounted price. Shoe Store B
simply offers a discount of 30% on
(A) 60 that same day in order to stay
(B) 45 competitive. By what percentage of
(C) 30 list price do the two options differ?
(D) 20
(E) 25 (A) 2
(B) 0
39. If the width of a rectangle is one (C) 1
fourth the length and the perimeter (D) 10
is 70 cm, what is the area? (E) 3
(A) 140 square cm 43. Given the graphs of f(x) and g(x)
(B) 196 square cm below, what is (f + g)(2)?
(C) 392 square cm
(D) 784 square cm
(E) 70 square cm

40. If two positive consecutive integers

have a product of 342, then what are
the integers?
(A) 18 and 19
(B) 19 and 20
(C) 17 and 18
(D) 2 and 171
(E) 9 and 19

41. Given that the foci of the ellipse are

the points (3, 0) and (23, 0), then
find a where 16x2 1 (ay)2 5 (4a)2.
(A) 5
(B) 25
(C) 4
(D) 24
(E) 3

(A) 3
(B) 5
(C) 2
(D) 6
(E) 22

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44. A total of 8 students took a test, and 46. Find the difference between the
their average score was 77. If the areas of the two right triangles ABC
average score of 4 of the students and BCD in the figure below, where
was 73, what was the average score BC 5 12, BD 5 20, and AD 5 6.
for the remaining 4 students?
(A) 81
(B) 80
(C) 79
(D) 78
(E) 77

45. In the right triangle below, PQ is

twice QR. What is the length of QR? (A) 36
(B) 60
(C) 96
(D) 132
(E) 72

47. In the figure below, ABC is an

equilateral triangle with KLPQ and
MLPN as two isosceles trapezoids.
What is the ratio of the area covered
by both trapezoids to the area of the
triangle ABC, if AK 5 KL 5 LB 5
AB
?
3
(A) 1252
(B) 5=5
(C) =5
(D) 625
(E) =25

(A) 1:4
(B) 2:5
(C) 2:3
(D) 2:9
(E) 1:3

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48. The surveyor needs to calculate the
length of a pond. He drew the
diagram below and made measure-
50. If u 5 arccos SD
u
v
, then tan u is

ments as indicated. What is the

(A)
=u2 2 v2
length of the pond? u
u
(B)
v

(C)
=v2 2 u2
u
v
(D)
u
(A) 100 (E) =v2 2 u2
(B) 96
(C) 90
(D) 120
(E) 140

49. Given the figure below, find y.

(A) 0
(B) 2
(C) 1
(D) 8
(E) 7

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