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SSAT Upper Quantitative II practice test

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Question 1

If y=2x+5y = 2x + 5 and x=3x = -3, what is the value of yy?

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Answer: C — 1-1

Substitute x=3x=-3 into y=2x+5y=2x+5. Then y=2(3)+5=6+5=1y=2(-3)+5=-6+5=-1.

Question 2

25%25\% of 80=80 =

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Answer: C — 20

25% is one fourth. One fourth of 80 is 20.

Question 3

If nn is an even integer, which of the following expressions must represent an odd integer?

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Answer: E — n+1n+1

Adding 1 to an even integer always gives an odd one. Doubling or squaring an even integer keeps it even, and 3n3n is even whenever nn is.

Question 4

A 9 by 6 rectangle has a 3 by 2 rectangle removed. What is the remaining area?

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Answer: C — 48

The large rectangle has area 9×6=549\times6=54, and the removed rectangle has area 3×2=63\times2=6. The remaining area is 48.

Question 5

The temperatures over five days were 6868^\circ, 7272^\circ, 7575^\circ, 7171^\circ, and 6969^\circ. What is the range?

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Answer: E — 77^\circ

The highest temperature is 7575^\circ and the lowest is 6868^\circ. The range is 7568=775 - 68 = 7^\circ.

Question 6

On a map, 1 inch represents 12 miles. Two towns are 2.5 inches apart on the map. How many miles apart are the towns?

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Answer: C — 30

Each inch represents 12 miles, so 2.5 inches represents 2.512=302.5\cdot12=30 miles.

Question 7

If 4p+2p5=434p + 2p - 5 = 43, what is the value of pp?

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Answer: A — 8

Combine 4p4p and 2p2p to get 6p6p. Then 6p5=436p-5=43, so p=8p=8.

Question 8

−5−4−3−2−112345−5−4−3−2−112345xyOHJKLN

Which of the following labeled points in the coordinate plane shown lies on the positive yy-axis?

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Answer: D — HH

A point on the positive yy-axis has x=0x=0 and a positive yy-coordinate. Point HH meets both conditions.

Question 9

A bag contains 3 red marbles, 2 blue marbles, and 5 green marbles. What is the probability of choosing a red or blue marble at random?

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Answer: D — 12\dfrac{1}{2}

There are 3+2=53 + 2 = 5 red or blue marbles out of 3+2+5=103 + 2 + 5 = 10 total marbles. The probability is 510=12\dfrac{5}{10}=\dfrac{1}{2}.

Question 10

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A right triangle has legs whose lengths are 9 and 12 units. What is the perimeter of the triangle?

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Answer: C — 36 units

The hypotenuse is 81+144=15\sqrt{81+144}=15 units, so the perimeter is 9+12+15=369+12+15=36 units. Answering 21 adds only the legs.

Question 11

The length of a rectangle is 3 meters more than its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 26 meters, what is the width of the rectangle?

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Answer: A — 5 meters

With width ww, 2w+2(w+3)=262w+2(w+3)=26, so 4w=204w=20 and w=5w=5 meters. The length is then 8 meters.

Question 12

A number xx rounds to 7.4 when rounded to the nearest tenth. Which of the following intervals contains all possible values of xx?

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Answer: A — 7.35x<7.457.35 \le x < 7.45

Values from 7.35 up to, but not including, 7.45 round to 7.4 to the nearest tenth.

Question 13

Elena buys an item priced at $85. The item is discounted by 20%20\%, and then a $4 coupon is applied. What is the final price?

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Answer: B — 64

20%20\% of $85 is $17, so the discounted price is $68. Subtracting the $4 coupon gives $64.

Question 14

A rectangle has perimeter 34 inches and length 10 inches. If its width is increased by 3 inches, what is the new area of the rectangle?

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Answer: C — 100

The original width is 7. Increasing it by 3 gives width 10, so the new area is 10×10=10010\times 10=100.

Question 15

Four temperatures are 1.4-1.4, 1.04-1.04, 1.14-1.14, and 1.401-1.401 degrees. Which choice lists the temperatures from least to greatest?

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Answer: D — 1.401,1.4,1.14,1.04-1.401, -1.4, -1.14, -1.04

Writing 1.4-1.4 as 1.400-1.400 makes the comparison clear: 1.401<1.400<1.140<1.040-1.401<-1.400<-1.140<-1.040.

Question 16

A class trip has a fixed bus cost of 250 dollars and brings in 18 dollars per student. If nn students go, which of the following expressions gives the profit from the trip in dollars?

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Answer: D — 18n25018n - 250

Revenue is 18n18n and the only cost given is the fixed 250, so profit is 18n25018n - 250.

Question 17

A rectangular tank is 10 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 6 meters high. If it is 34\dfrac{3}{4} full, what is the volume of the empty part of the tank?

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Answer: B — 120 m3120\text{ m}^3

The tank holds 10×8×6=48010 \times 8 \times 6=480 cubic meters. The empty part is 14\dfrac{1}{4} of the tank, and 14(480)=120\dfrac{1}{4}(480)=120 cubic meters.

Question 18

Which of the following expressions gives (6×104)(3×107)9×102\dfrac{(6 \times 10^{-4})(3 \times 10^7)}{9 \times 10^2} in scientific notation?

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Answer: D — 2×1012 \times 10^1

The coefficients give 639=2\dfrac{6\cdot3}{9}=2, and the power of 10 is 104+72=10110^{-4+7-2}=10^1. The result is 2×1012\times10^1.

Question 19

At a bookstore, one clerk can finish shelving a shipment alone in 6 hours, and another can finish the same shipment alone in 3 hours. How many hours will they need working together?

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Answer: A — 2

Their combined rate is 16+13=12\dfrac{1}{6} + \dfrac{1}{3} = \dfrac{1}{2} shipment per hour, so the job takes 2 hours.

Question 20

2 parts5 partsAB (3)Midpoint of AC (9)C

On a number line, point BB lies between points AA and CC. The distances satisfy AB:BC=2:5AB:BC=2:5. The coordinate of BB is 3, and the midpoint of AC\overline{AC} has coordinate 9. What is the coordinate of AA?

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Answer: B — 5-5

Since AB:BC=2:5AB:BC=2:5, point BB is 2 parts from AA, while the midpoint of ACAC is 3.5 parts from AA. The distance from BB to the midpoint is therefore 1.5 parts. That coordinate distance is 93=69-3=6, so 1 part is 4. Then AB=24=8AB=2\cdot4=8, and A=38=5A=3-8=-5.

Question 21

The table shows the numbers of packages sorted at four stations during two shifts. Across all four stations, the late shift sorted what percent more packages than the early shift?

Packages Sorted by Station and Shift

StationEarly ShiftLate ShiftA1625B2219C1831D2425
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Answer: B — 25%25\%

The early-shift total is 80 and the late-shift total is 100, an increase of 20. Therefore, the percent increase is 2080×100%=25%\dfrac{20}{80}\times100\%=25\%.

Question 22

A horizontal segment and a vertical segment divide a rectangle into four smaller rectangles. The upper-left rectangle has area 9 square centimeters, and the lower-right rectangle has area 16 square centimeters. The upper-right and lower-left rectangles are shaded and have equal areas. What is the perimeter, in centimeters, of the original rectangle?

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Answer: E — It cannot be determined from the information given.

E is correct because the shaded areas each equal 12 square centimeters, fixing the total area at 49 square centimeters while leaving the original rectangle’s proportions unspecified; A assumes the original rectangle is a square with side length 7; B assumes its dimensions are 3.5 by 14 centimeters; C assumes its dimensions are 2 by 24.5 centimeters; D assumes its dimensions are 1 by 49 centimeters.

Question 23

How many integers from 1 through 80 are divisible by 6 or by 10, but not by both?

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Answer: C — 17

There are 13 multiples of 6 and 8 multiples of 10. The 2 multiples of 30 are counted in both groups but should be excluded, so the count is 13+82(2)=1713+8-2(2)=17.

Question 24

A notebook has 150 pages, and 40%40\% of the pages have been used. Lena removes some of the unused pages. The used pages then make up 60%60\% of the pages left. How many unused pages did Lena remove?

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Answer: B — 50

There are 0.40(150)=600.40(150)=60 used pages. If these are 60%60\% of the pages left, then 60/0.60=10060/0.60=100 pages remain, so 150100=50150-100=50 pages were removed.

Question 25

Two stacks of index cards contain different numbers of cards. If 12 cards are moved from the first stack to the second stack, the second stack will have twice as many cards as the first stack. If instead 6 cards are moved from the second stack to the first stack, the two stacks will have the same number of cards. How many cards are in the two stacks altogether?

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Answer: C — 108

Let the original stack sizes be aa and bb. Moving 12 cards from the first stack to the second gives b+12=2(a12)b+12=2(a-12). Moving 6 cards from the second stack to the first gives a+6=b6a+6=b-6, so b=a+12b=a+12. Substitute into the first equation: a+12+12=2a24a+12+12=2a-24, so a=48a=48. Then b=60b=60, and the total number of cards is 48+60=10848+60=108.

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