PRACTICE PROBLEMS-STRAND 1

Practice Problems-Strand 1
1. The set of real numbers shown below is a
subset of which of the following?
{-1,-1

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A. The set of integers

B. The set of counting numbers
C. The set of rational numbers
D. The set of irrational numbers

2. Which of the following is a set of rational

numbers?

5. Which of the following sets of numbers is

NOT finite?
A. {1, 2, 3, ... ' 100}

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B. {-8, 2, 0, 7,
c. {positive integers}
D. {two digit natural number}

6. Which of the following is finite?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Counting numbers less than 5

Even integers less than 5
Rational numbers less than 5
Real numbers less than 5

A. { k,F4,7.3}
B.

{, J3,

3.6}

c. {~' J6, 5.12}

D. {i-,.J9,2 .010010001.. -}

7. A football is advertised at a special discount

of/;; off of the regular price of $52. What is
the sale price of the football?
A. $13.00
B. $39.00
c. $65.00
D. $208.00

8. Nita worked 40 hours per week for 3 weeks.

3. Which property is demonstrated below?
A = 2C and 2C = D, so A = D
A. Associative property
B. Commutative property
C. Reflexive property
D. Transitive property

4. Which of the following illustrates the associative property of multiplication?

A. 5(1 0 + y) = 5(1 0) + S(y)
B. ( 45w)2 = 2( 45w)

c.

6(15 x) = ( 6 15)x

D. 3+ ( 4+5z) = ( 3+4 )+ 5z

She earns $7.25 an hour. What will be her

total gross pay (pay before deductions)?
A. $290.00
B. $507.50
c. $870.00
D. $2,900.00

9. Mars is about 142,000,000 miles from the

sun. Pluto is about 26 times farther from the
sun than Mars. What operation would be
used to approximate the miles Pluto is from
the sun?
A. Addition
B. Subtraction
C. Multiplication
D. Division

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STRAND 1: NUMBER SENSE AND NUMBER OPERATIONS

10. What operation would be used to determine

the unit cost of an ounce of pineapple juice
if you can buy 12 ounces for $0.96?

15. What is the coefficient of the second term in

the following polynomial?

P= 12x 3 +4x 2 -2xz+9y

A. Addition
B. Subtraction
C. Multiplication
D. Division

A. -2
B. z

c.

D.y

11. What is the value of the expression below?

16. William declared the following numbers to
be prime numbers.

A. 3
B. 11
c. 27
D. 39

{3, 11, 39, 43}

He made an error. Which one in this list is
not prime?

12. What is the value of the following expression?

A. 3
B. 11
c. 39
D. 43
17. Determine the value of the following expressiOn.

A. - 3
B. 21
c. 25
D. 29

(3.6x 10 4 )(2.8x 10 7 )
(1.6x10 5 )

13. Consider the following number pattern.

5, 8, al' 14, a2 ,

A. 6.3 X
B. 6.3 X
C. 6.3 X
D. 6.3 X

106
10 16
1023
1033

What is the value of a2?

A. 16
B. 17
c. 18
D. 19

18. Bombay, India, has a population of about 11

million and a land area of only 96 square
miles. Estimate the number of people per
square mile in scientific notation.

A. 1.15 X 103
14. Which list was generated from the statements:

B. 1.15
c. 1.15
D. 1.15

X
X
X

105
107
109

A. {5, 7, 9, 11, ... }

B. {5, 10, 15, 20, ... }
c. {5, 10, 12, 14, ... }
D. {5, 10, 20, 40, . .. }

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19. What is the value of the following expression?

7 + 2-!4 - (9 + 5)+7

A. 0
B. 7
c. 9
D. 17

23. Jack worked for 27.35 hours at a pay rate of

$5.15 per hour. What would be a reasonable
estimate of his wages before taxes?

A. $28.00
B. $100.00
c. $135.00
D. $315 .00

24. On a recent floating river raft trip, Josie was

20. What is the value of the following expression?
J9 - 8+2 + 2

A. - 3
B. -1.25
c. 0.5
D. 1
21. Jamie earned the following scores on his
tests in his math class.

2
told the total distance traveled was 5- miles
3
and the overall time in the water was 30 minutes. The raft did not have a motor so the
speed at which they traveled was the same as
the speed at which the water was moving.
Which of the following is a reasonable
approximation of the rate of the water?

A.
B.
C.
D.

5 miles/hr
7 miles/hr
9 miles/hr
11 miles/hr

58%, 86%, 72%, 79%, 68%

Which estimation is closest to the actual
mean of his test scores?

A. 62%
B. 73%
c. 86%
D. 94%
22. What is the best estimate for the following
expression?

25. Which value is closest to

A. 8.1
B. 9.2
c. 9.9
D. 10.1
26. Point X is graphed on the number line as
shown below.
X

4.41x10- 2 + 1.63x1o- 2

A.
B.
C.
D.

6.0 X 104
6.0 X I0-4
6.0 X I0- 3
6.0 X I0-2

J84 ?

Which of the following numbers is closest

to the coordinate of point X?

A.

J6

B.

J8

c.
D.

JU
J15

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