290 McGraw-Hill Education: SAT

Exercise Set 2 (No Calculator)

1 8
If bag A weighs 4 pounds 5 ounces and bag B (x - 9)(x - a) = x2 - 4ax + b
weighs 6 pounds 2 ounces, how much heavier, in
In the equation above, a and b are constants. If the
ounces, is bag B than bag A? (1 pound = 16 ounces)
equation is true for all values of x, what is the value
of b ?
A) -27
B) -12
2
C) 12
3a + b 7 a
If = , what is the value of ? D) 27
b 5 b

9
5 7
If + = 1, what is the value of x ?
x 5
3
2x A) - 25
If x - 2y = 10 and x ≠ 0, what is the value of ? 2
y +5 B) -7
C) - 24
7
D) - 7
4 5

If a - b = 4 and a2 - b2 = 3, what is the value 10

of a + b ?
(p + 2)2 = (p - 5)2
The equation above is true for which of the
following values of p ?

5 A) -2 and 5
B) 2 and -5
If 6 gricks are equivalent to 5 merts, then 2 merts
are equivalent to how many gricks? C) 1.5 only
D) 5 only

11
6 3x
If = 2 for all positive values of m and n, then
m − nx
If the function {x} is defined by the equation {x} =
which of the following is equal to x ?
(1 - x)2, what is the value of {{4}} ?

A) 2m - 2n
3
B) 2m - 3
7 2n
C) 3 + 2n
a +b a +c b 2m
If = 3 and = 5, what is the value of ?
b c c 2m
D)
3 + 2n

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 CHAPTER 7 / THE SAT MATH TEST: THE HEART OF ALGEBRA 291

Exercise Set 2 (Calculator)

12
Let m be a positive real number. Increasing m by
60% then decreasing the result by 50% is equivalent
to dividing m by what number?
18
Subtracting 3 from a number and then multiplying
this result by 4 is equivalent to multiplying the
original number by 4 and then subtracting what
number?

13 19
In a poker game, a blue chip is worth 2 dollars
What is the sum of the first 50 positive even
more than a red chip, and a red chip is worth 2
integers?
dollars more than a green chip. If 5 green chips
are worth m dollars, then which of the following
represents the value, in dollars, of 10 blue chips
and 5 red chips?
A) 50 + 3m
14 B) 18 + 60m
Three years ago, Nora was half as old as Mary is C) 40 + 3m
now. If Mary is four years older than Nora, how old D) 28 + 20m
is Mary now?
20
A train travels at an average speed of 50 miles per
hour for the first 100 miles of a 200-mile trip, and at
an average of 75 miles per hour for final 100 miles.
15 What is the train’s average speed for the entire trip?

If 2/3 of the seats at a football stadium were filled A) 58.5 mph

at the beginning of the game, and at halftime 1,000 B) 60.0 mph
spectators left, leaving 3/7 of the seats filled, what is C) 62.5 mph
the total number of seats in the stadium?
D) 63.5 mph

21
Which of the following is equivalent to
3m(m2 ´ 2m) for all real values of m ?
16 A) 3m2 + 6m
If three candy bars and two gumdrops cost $2.20, B) 3m2 ´ 6m
and four candy bars and two gumdrops cost $2.80, C) 3m3 ´ 6m2
what is the cost, in dollars, of one gumdrop?
D) 6m4

22
If the cost of living in a certain city increased
by 20% in the 10 years from 1980 to 1990, and
17 increased by 50% in the 20 years from 1980 to 2000,
x 2 − 2x + 1 what was the percent increase in the cost of living
If =− 3, what is the value of x -1 ? from 1990 to 2000?
2 − 2x
A) 15%
B) 20%
C) 25%
D) 30%

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