4 4 .

Math Test – Calculator

55 MINUTES, 38 QUESTIONS

Turn to Section 4 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.

_DIRECTIONS_.

Questions 1-30 ask you to solve a problem, select the best answer among four choices, and fill in the
corresponding circle on your answer sheet. Questions 31-38 ask you to solve a problem and enter
your answer in a grid provided on your answer sheet. There are detailed instructions on entering
answers into the grid before question 31. You may use your test booklet for scratch work.

_NOTES_

1. You may use a calculator.

2. Variables and expressions represent real numbers unless stated otherwise.
3. Figures are drawn to scale unless stated otherwise.
4. Figures lie in a plane unless stated otherwise.
5. The domain of a function f is defined as the set of all real numbers x for which f (x) is also a
real number, unless stated otherwise.

_REFERENCE_

c 2x 60° 45° x√2

h b x x h h
30° 45° w r
b a x√3 x l
1 1 2
1 a2 + b2 = c2 Special Triangles V= lwh V= πr h
A= bh 3 3
2

r
h
w r r
h
w
l l
A = lw V = lwh V = πr 2 h A = πr 2 4 3
V= πr
C = 2πr 3
There are 360° in a circle.
The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180°.
The number of radians of arc in a circle is 2π.

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 65
 4 4 .
1 4
f (x) = 2x + 1 A printer can print at a rate of 5 pages per minute.
g (x) = 4x – 4 How many hours will it take to print 300 pages?

Given the functions f and g above, what is f (0) × g (0)? A) 0.5

A) –5 B) 1

B) –4 C) 1.5

C) 0 D) 3

D) 4

5
2 Internet Usage at
The ratio of novels written by James Joyce to novels Washington High School
9
written by Virginia Woolf is 1:3. The ratio of novels
8
written by Virginia Woolf to novels written by Ernest
Number of Students

7
Hemingway is 1:2. If Ernest Hemingway wrote 18
6
novels, how many novels did James Joyce write?
5
A) 12 4
B) 9 3
2
C) 6
1
D) 3 0
1 2 3 4
Time (hours)

Administrators at Washington High School randomly

surveyed 20 students about their internet use during
3 class. The above histogram represents the number of
hours students spent on the internet per day. Which
A random sample of 100 people from the city of
of the following statements is FALSE?
Omaha are surveyed about the number of books they
read each month. If 25 of these people say they read A) The mode of this data set is 3 hours.
3 or more books per month, and Omaha has a B) The mean of this data set is 2.75 hours.
population of 420,000, how many people in Omaha
C) Exactly 60% of the students surveyed use the
read 3 or more books per month?
internet 3 or 4 hours per day.
A) 84,000
D) The median is smaller than the mean for this data
B) 105,000 set.
C) 189,000
D) 218,000

CONTINUE

66 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global
 4 4 .
6 8

y A bird collects pieces of string in order to build a

nest. If it starts with 2 pieces of string and collects 3
additional pieces of string each day, which of the
following is a possible number of pieces of string that
the bird could have at the end of a day?
A) 12

50 B) 13
x C) 14

Every year, the population of Dwarf Lop rabbits D) 15

doubles in a certain country, as shown in the graph
above. If there were 50 Dwarf Lop rabbits at the start
of 2017, how many Dwarf Lop rabbits will there be
at the start of 2021?
A) 200
B) 400
C) 800
D) 1600

7
y

x
O

Which of the following equations could represent the

line shown above?
A) y = –2x – 1
B) y = –2x + 1
C) y = 2x – 1
D) y = 2x + 1

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 67
 4 4 .
Questions 9-10 refer to the following information.

A group of scientists is studying the effects of green tea tannin on electrolyte loss in rats. They separate the rats into two
groups and give each group a certain dose of green tea tannin per kilogram of body weight. After one day, the scientists
record their results in the table below for the volume of urine and the concentration of electrolytes lost by the rats.

Dose Urine Volume Sodium Potassium

(milligram/kilogram (milliliters/24 hour (millimoles/liter/24 (millimoles/liter/24
body weight/24 h) period) hour period) hour period)
Control group 0 41 1.6 0.3
Group 1 2 38 1.8 0.7
Group 2 4 35 2.0 1.1

9 10
If the volume of urine produced by a rat decreases
linearly for each increase in dosage of green tea
tannin, how much urine per day, in milliliters, will be
produced by a rat that is administered 11 milligrams
of green tea tannin per kilogram of the rat’s weight?
A) 21.5
B) 23
If the amount of sodium and the amount of potassium
excreted by the rats increases linearly for each
increase in dosage of green tea tannin, what dosage
of tannin, in milligrams, will make the concentration
of sodium in a rat’s urine equal to the concentration
of potassium?
A) 24

C) 24.5 B) 22

D) 26 C) 13
D) 11

CONTINUE

68 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global
 4 4 .
11 13
Two random samples of students from different Fire Ant Colonies in Greenville
universities were surveyed about their sleep habits.
Both groups had the same average number of hours Year Number of colonies
of sleep, but those from University A had a higher 1992 41,402
standard deviation in hours than those from 1993 43,783
University B. Which of the following statements is
supported by the results of the survey? 1994 46,164
1995 48,545
A) The hours of sleep per night varies more among
students at University A than students at
The table above shows the number of fire ant
University B.
colonies found in Greenville from 1992 to 1995.
B) The hours of sleep per night varies more among Which of the following graphs best represents the
students at University B than students at number of fire ant colonies in Greenville during the
University A. time period represented in the table?
C) More students attend University A than A)
University B.

Number of
Colonies
D) More students attend University B than
University A.

O Year

B)
Number of
Colonies

12
Logan bought 36 pieces of bubble gum, which was
O Year
40% of the store’s stock. How many pieces of bubble
gum are still in the store?
C)
A) 54
Number of
Colonies

B) 72
C) 80
D) 90 O Year

D)
Number of
Colonies

O Year

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 69
 4 4 .
14 16
A dietitian makes sure that she always consumes x2 + ax + b = (x – 9)(x + 9)
twice as many grams of protein as grams of fat per
Given the equation above, what is the value of ab?
day. If she needs to eat more than 135 grams of both
fat and protein combined to maintain her current A) –81
muscle mass, which of the following is NOT a B) 0
possible value for her daily protein count?
C) 81
A) 90 grams
D) 1458
B) 91 grams
C) 92 grams
D) 93 grams

17
2 3 5
+ +
x y xy
15
Which of the following is equivalent to the above
Lola is 9 years older than Maggie, and in 1 year expression?
Maggie’s age will have the same two digits as Lola’s
age, but in reverse order. How old is Lola now? 2x + 3y + 5xy
A)
xy
A) 19
B) 23 2y + 3x + 5
B)
xy
C) 27
D) 31 2x + 2y + 5
C)
xy

10
D)
xy

CONTINUE

70 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global
 4 4 .
18 20

Perceived Pedestrian Safety

in New York City, U.S.
6x
Preferred method Number
Safe Unsafe 4x
of transportation surveyed
Walking 10% 90% 589
Bicycling 40% 60% 372
Driving 70% 30% 539
Several cross-sectional slices of an unknown
The Department of Transportation surveyed 1,500
carnivore’s tooth were made to better measure the
people selected at random from New York City and
size of its incisors. What is the perimeter of this slice
asked them the question, “Do you think the streets
of tooth, in terms of x?
are safe for pedestrians?” Based on the results of the
survey shown above, which of the following A) 5x + 3πx
statements are likely to be true? B) 5x + 6πx
I. Of all the people surveyed, approximately C) 10x + 3πx
39% think the streets are safe for pedestrians. D) 10x + 6πx
II. Of all the people in New York City, a greater
proportion prefer to walk than bike.
III. Of all people who prefer driving in the U.S.,
70% think the streets are safe for pedestrians.

A) None
B) II only 21
C) I and II only If 5x + 4 = 25x + 3, what is the value of x?
D) I, II, and III A) –2
B) –1
C) 0
D) 1

19
If the linear function f passes through the point
(–6, –13) in the xy-plane, and f (2) = 3, what is the
y-intercept of f ?
A) –1
B) 0
C) 1
D) 2

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 71
 4 4 .
22 24
Daphnia are a type of water flea commonly found in If (x + 2)2 = 4, which of the following is a solution
lakes. Females can reproduce asexually, and they will for 𝑥𝑥?
either produce a male or a female embryo depending
A) –4
on the stress level of their environment. If, in a
stressful environment, a female has a 75% chance to B) –2
reproduce asexually, and the odds of a male being C) 2
born are 2:1, what is the probability that a female in
D) 8
this environment will asexually produce a male?
A) 0.5
B) 0.6
C) 0.7
D) 1.0

23

Drink Sales for July

Drink Flavor 16 oz. 24 oz.
Vanilla 1525 3200
Mocha m 175
Espresso s 4500
Total 3000 7875

A beverage company offers 3 different flavors of

energy drinks, and each flavor is offered in 2
different sizes. The table above shows the number of
drinks sold in each category during the month of
July. If 16 oz. cans represented 20% of the total
number of espresso cans sold, how many 16 oz. cans
of mocha, m, did the company sell?
A) 1125
B) 575
C) 465
D) 350

CONTINUE

72 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global
 4 4 .
26
Questions 25-27 refer to the following information.
TD:INT Ratio Versus
Total Passing Distance
Career Statistics for Retired Quarterbacks
80,000
Quarterback Passer rating TD:INT ratio
70,000

Distance (yards)
Brett Favre 86.0 1.53

Total Passing
60,000
Dan Marino 86.4 1.67 50,000
Donovan McNabb 85.6 2.00 40,000
Joe Montana 92.3 1.96 30,000
Kurt Warner 93.7 1.63 20,000
1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25
Peyton Manning 96.5 2.13
TD:INT Ratio
Roger Staubach 83.4 1.40
The scatterplot above shows the TD:INT ratio plotted
Steve McNair 82.8 1.46
against the total passing distance, in yards, of the 10
Steve Young 96.8 2.17 retired quarterbacks in the table. Approximately how
Troy Aikman 81.6 1.17 many yards did Joe Montana pass over his career?
A) 32,000
One measure of a quarterback’s ability is “passer rating,”
B) 37,500
which is calculated using a formula that accounts for
percentage of completions per attempt, average yards C) 40,500
gained per attempt, percentage of touchdown passes per D) 72,000
attempt, and percentage of interceptions per attempt. The
highest possible rating a quarterback can achieve is 158.3.
Another measure of a quarterback’s ability is “TD:INT
ratio,” which is the number of touchdowns divided by the
number of interceptions thrown by the quarterback. The
table above gives the career passer rating and TD:INT
27
ratio for 10 retired quarterbacks.
What is the approximate difference, in yards,
25 between Dan Marino’s actual total passing distance
and his total passing distance predicted by the line of
Over their careers, Brett Favre threw 508 touchdowns best fit based on his TD:INT ratio?
and Peyton Manning threw 539 touchdowns.
According to the information in the table, A) 61,000
approximately how many more interceptions did B) 42,000
Brett Favre throw than Peyton Manning?
C) 19,000
A) 392 D) 11,000
B) 79
C) 31
D) 1

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 73
 4 4 .
28 29

Hours of Exercise Per Week Nathan is birdwatching from the bow of his rowboat
and sees a turkey vulture flying above a beach 3
Number of Students miles to the east. If he tilts his binoculars up 30° to
Hours per week Class A Class B see the vulture, how high is it flying above the beach,
0 0 3 in miles?

1 4 0 A) 1

2 2 5 B) √3
3 4 1 C) 2
D) 4
The table above shows the number of hours spent
exercising per week by students in Class A and Class
B. Which statement best describes the relationship
between the median and mean of the hours of weekly
exercise between the two classes?
A) Class A has a higher median than Class B, and 30
Class B has a higher mean than Class A.
y
B) Class B has a higher median than Class A, and
Class B has a higher mean than Class A.
C) Class A and B have the same median, and Class
B has a lower mean than Class A.
D) Class A and B have the same median, and Class
A has a lower mean than Class B.
x
O

If the function f (x) = ax2 + bx + c is graphed above,

which of the following expressions must be positive?

A) ab
B) b – a
C) –c
D) ac

CONTINUE

74 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global
 4 4 .
_DIRECTIONS_
Questions 31-38 ask you to solve a problem and
enter your answer in the grid provided on your
answer sheet. When completing grid-in 5 / 1 1 8  4 3 / 7
questions: ⃝
/ / ⃝ ⃝ / ⃝
1. You are required to bubble in the . ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ . ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ . ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
circles for your answers. It is 0 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 0 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 0 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
recommended, but not required, that 1 ⃝ ⃝ 1 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 1 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
you also write your answer in the 2 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 2 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 2 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
boxes above the columns of circles. 3 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 3 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 3 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
Points will be awarded based only on
4 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 4 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 4 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
whether the circles are filled in
5 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 5 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 5 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
correctly.
6 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 6 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 6 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
2. Fill in only one circle in a column. 7 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 7 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 7 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
3. You can start your answer in any 8 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 8 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 8 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
column as long as you can fit in the 9 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 9 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 9 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
whole answer.

4. For questions 31-38, no answers will

be negative numbers.  4 2 2  3 2 6  1 2 5
2 / ⃝ ⃝ / ⃝ ⃝ / ⃝ ⃝
5. Mixed numbers, such as 4 , must be
5
. ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ . ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ . ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
gridded as decimals or improper
0 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 0 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 0 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
fractions, such as 4.4 or as 22/5. “42/5”
will be read as “forty-two over five,” 1 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 1 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 1 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝

not as “four and two-fifths.” 2 ⃝ ⃝ 2 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 2 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝

3 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 3 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 3 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
6. If your answer is a decimal with more
4 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 4 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 4 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
digits than will fit on the grid, you
may round it or cut it off, but you 5 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 5 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 5 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝

must fill the entire grid. 6 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 6 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 6 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝

7 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 7 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 7 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
7. If there are multiple correct
8 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 8 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 8 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
solutions to a problem, all of them
9 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 9 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ 9 ⃝ ⃝ ⃝ ⃝
will be considered correct. Enter
only one on the grid.

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 75
 4 4 .
31 33
Linda works 6 hours a day on Monday and A+B=3 C + D = 12
Wednesday, 8 hours a day on Thursday and Friday, A+C=x B + D = 4x
and 5 hours on Sunday. If she is paid $495 at the end
Given the set of equations above, what is the value of
of the week, what is Linda’s hourly wage? (Note:
x?
Ignore the dollar sign when gridding your answer.)

32 34
5 A B
A molecule of nitrogen trifluoride, NF3, contains 1 = +
atom of nitrogen and 3 atoms of fluorine. How many x2 + 6x + 8 x + 2 x + 4
nitrogen trifluoride molecules can be formed with In the above equation, what is the value of A + B if A
2,016 atoms of fluorine and unlimited nitrogen? is equal to 2.5?

CONTINUE

76 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global
 4 4 .
35 36

Running Speeds If a sector of a circle with a central angle of 60° has

10 an area of 24π, what is the radius of the circle?
Speed (miles per hour)

8
6
4
2
0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2
Time (hours)

The graph above shows Rebecca’s running speeds

during a 2-hour run. What is the total distance, in
miles, that Rebecca ran during the first hour of her
run?

CONTINUE

Ivy Global | SAT Online Practice Test 1 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. 77
 4 4 .
38
Questions 37 and 38 refer to the following
information. In the eighth trial, how many more problems did
Participant 1 answer correctly than Participant 2, as a
In a psychology experiment, participants are asked to percentage of the number of problems Participant 2
solve simple math problems presented on a computer answered correctly? (Ignore the % symbol when
screen. The data is analyzed by calculating what gridding your answer.)
percentage of the problems the participant answers
correctly during one trial. The trials are presented back to
back with no breaks in between. The results are shown
below.

Math Problem Accuracy

90

80

70
Percent Correct

60

50

40

30
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Trial Number
Participant 1 Participant 2

37
The experiment consists of 10 trials, each of which
lasts 5 minutes. If a new math problem is presented
every 6 seconds, how many problems are presented
during one trial?

STOP
If you complete this section before the end of your allotted time, you may check your work on
this section only. Do NOT use the time to work on another section.

78 This exam is not licensed for commercial use. SAT Online Practice Test 1 | Ivy Global