1. What number should be between 35 and 61 in the following arithmetic progression?

35, ___, 61, 74, 87

3. In the number line game below, each player begins at 0 and draws a card. The players move along the number line by adding the value of the card to the number they are at on the number line. The first player to land on 4 wins.

Joan’s first three cards are shown below.

What would Joan’s fourth card need to be for her to land on 4?

A. / / B. /
C. / / D. /


2. Ming folded the pattern below along the dotted lines to form a cube.

When folded, which letter will be opposite letter C?

4. Ms. Wood asked each student to write on a piece of paper one place that he or she would like to visit on a class field trip. The results are shown in the chart below.

Field Trip Choices
Place to Visit / Number of Student Choices
science museum / 9
water park / 3
power plant / 4
history museum / 7
zoo / 5

Ms. Wood placed each student's paper in a bag and drew one paper at random. What is the probability she drew a piece of paper that had the science museum written on it?

A. B.

C. D.

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5. Once a week, Ana runs along a path around CityPark. For 4 weeks, she recorded

her running times. Ana plotted the data on the graph below.

A. How many minutes did it take Ana to run around the park in Week 3 ?

B. If the pattern in the graph continues, predict how many minutes it will take Anato run around the park in Week 7. Explain how you made your prediction

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1. Which of the following figures is not a rhombus?

3. Lana charges $5 per hour for babysitting one child and $1.25 for each additional child. Which of the following tables represents the amount per hour Lana charges for babysitting one through five children?

A. / Number of Children / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Total Charge / $5.00 / $6.25 / $7.50 / $8.75 / $10.00
B. / Number of Children / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Total Charge / $6.25 / $7.50 / $8.75 / $10.00 / $11.25
C. / Number of Children / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Total Charge / $5.00 / $6.25 / $11.75 / $16.75 / $21.75
D. / Number of Children / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Total Charge / $6.25 / $12.50 / $18.50 / $24.75 / $31.00

2. CollierCounty in southern Florida has an area of 2.119 x103 square miles.

How many square miles does 2.119 x 103 represent?

A. 2,119B. 21,190

C. 211,930 D. 2,119,000

4. Maria’s dentist gives a toothbrush to each of his patients. The chart shows the number of each color of toothbrush in the dentist’s supply cabinet.

The dentist selects a toothbrush at random and gives it to Maria. What is the probability that she will get a blue toothbrush?

A. B.

C. D.

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5. A science class rolled a model car down a hill and measured the distance the car traveled. The class rolled the car 30 times and recorded the results in the table.

The class rolls the car one more time. Based on the data in the table, what is the probability that the car will travel 10 feet or more?

Show and explain your work.


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1. Marty began a pattern with the number 3. He obtained all of the other terms in the pattern by multiplying the previous term by 2 or by 3 alternately as shown below.

3, 6, 18, 36, 108, 216, . . .

What is the next term in Marty’s pattern?

A. 324B. 432

C. 540D. 648

3. Students in Mr. Jacob’s English class were giving speeches. Each student’s speech was 7 to 10 minutes long. Which of the following is the best estimate for the total number of student speeches that could be given in a 2-hour class?

A. 4 speechesB. 8 speeches

C. 13 speechesD. 19 speeches


2. An artist is using a computer program to draw a picture for a Web page.

Which ordered pair represents point A of the graphic design?

A. (2, 10) B.(3, 9)

C.(4, 8) D. (9, 3)

4. A teacher has 32 students in her class. She

wants to put the students into groups so that

each group has the same number of students.

Which of the following does NOT represent

the number of students she could put into

groups?

A. 4B. 10

C. 8D. 16

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5. A sixth-grade class is having a book sale. The students earn $6 for each book they sell.

To determine how many books they need to sell to reach their goal of $144, they use

the equation below where b represents a certain number of books.

6b =144

A. What is the value of b in the equation? Show and explain your work.

B. The classroom teacher wrote the equation shown below for his students to solve to

find the number of kickballs, k, they could buy with the $144, if each kickball cost $9.

What is the value of k in the equation? Show and explain your work.


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1. Lisa has three jobs: walking the family dog, washing the dishes, and vacuuming.

  • She walks the family dog once
    every 3 days.
  • She washes the dishes once every
    4 days.
  • She vacuums once every 6 days.

The calendar below shows that Lisa did all three jobs on Monday the 2nd.

On which day will Lisa again do all three jobs on the same day?

A. Thursday the 5th B. Saturday the 14th

C. Wednesday the 18th D. Tuesday the 24th

3. The Sojourn family went on a vacation. They

started with $2000. If they spent $150 each day, which expression represents how much money they had after x days?

A. 1850x

B. 2000 −150x

C. 150x

D. 2000 +150x
2. Newspaper advertisements can be of a

page, of a page, or a full page. The shaded

parts of the model below show the fractions of

a page used for two advertisements.

Which of the following equations represents

the total fraction of the page used for these

two advertisements?

A. B.

C. D.

4. Abe found the mean and median of this list

of numbers.

1, 3, 3

If the number 6 were added to the list, then

A. the mean would increase.

B. the mean would decrease.

C. the median would increase.

D. the median would decrease.

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5. Jenny wrote the following expression in her notebook.

(–7) · (–7) · (–7) · (–7) · y · y + 3 · 3 · 5 · 5 · 5 · 5 · 5 · 5 · x · x

A. What is the value of the expression if x = 1 and y = 2? Show all your work.

B. Show how Jenny can correctly rewrite this expression using exponents. Explain why the

value of the expression can never be negative.

C. Rewrite the following expression as the product of 3 prime numbers with exponents.

625 ∙ 64 ∙ 243


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1. What is the order of the following set of

numbers from greatest to least?

A. B

C. D.

3. Solve:

8 + 8 ÷ 2 + 2

A. 4B. 8

C. 10D. 14

2. A marathon and a half-marathon are held each year in Tallahassee. In 1998, the winning time in the marathon was 2 hours, 29 minutes, 2 seconds. The winning time in the half-marathon was 1 hour, 19 minutes, 48 seconds.

By how much was the winning time in the marathon greater than the winning time in the half-marathon?

A. 1 hour, 9 minutes, 14 seconds

B. 1 hour, 9 minutes, 54 seconds

C.1 hour, 10 minutes, 14 seconds

D.1 hour, 10 minutes, 46 seconds

4. If 50% of a number is 20, what is 75% of

the number?

A. 8B. 15

C. 30D. 45

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5. The coordinate grid below shows Alice’s neighborhood. Point A represents Alice’s house. Her friends Barbara, Carlos, and Dana also live in the neighborhood.

A. PlotPointAon the grid. Barbara’s house is at the point (1, 5). Plot that point and label it Point B. Carlos’ house is at the point (1, 2). Plot that point and label it PointC.

B. If Alice walks to Barbara’s house and the two girls then walk to Carlos’ house before returning to Alice’s, which type of triangle is formed?

C. Point D represents Dana’s house. When the four houses are connected by line segments, they form a trapezoid. Find and label a Point D on the grid. Identify the coordinates of the point you labeled as Point D and explain why quadrilateral ABCD is a trapezoid.


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1. What is 60% of 30?

A.1.8 B.18

C.180 D.1800

3. Which is a true statement about angles 1 and 2 shown below?

A.∠1 is complementary to ∠2.

B.∠1 is supplementary to ∠2.

C. Both angles are obtuse.

D. Both angles are acute.

2. Which algebraic equation best describes the

total growth (T) in height of pine trees over a 3-year period, if g equals the rate of growth in centimeters per year?

A. B.

C. D.

4. Marguerite earned a score between 75 and 89 on all of her previous spelling tests. She earned a score of 100 on her next test. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The mode will increase.

B. The mean will increase.

C. The mean will decrease.

D. The median will decrease.

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5. Mr. Roberts is going shopping. He has a budget of $150.00. He will buy eithera painting or a lamp.

A. If he spends 80% of his money on a painting, how much money will Mr. Robertsspend?Show and explain your work.

B. If he spends 50% of his money on a lamp, instead of buying a painting, how muchmoney will Mr. Roberts spend?

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