CHAPTER 2 / NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS ON NUMBERS 15

PRACTICE SAT QUESTIONS

5 5. What is the next term in the sequence: 2,8,32,128

1. Which of the following is not equal to ? ...?
9
10
A.
18
20
B. 6. If 3x+2 = 81, then x =
36
A. 5
30 B. 4
C.
45 C. 3
35 D. 2
D. E. 1
63
50 7. Which of the following has the smallest result?
E.
90
2 5 1
A. + −
2. In which of the following choices would the symbol 3 6 2
> create an incorrect statement?
3 3 2
B. − +
1 3 4 2 3
A.
4 10 5 1 5
C. + −
2 1 8 2 4
B.
3 2 4 9 5
D. − +
4 5 7 14 2
C.
7 9 3 7 2
E. + +
7 3 5 5 5
D.
8 4 8. What is the difference between the largest and small-
5 7 est number in the set below?
E.
6 9
3. (17 − 3) ÷ 7 − 2 (−4 − 8) =
{ 3 5 7 2
, , ,
7 8 9 5 }
A. −20 11
B. −2 A.
56
C. 26
D. 31 11
E. 34 B.
72
9
3 C.
4 = 40
4.
3 1
8 D.
35
9
A. 17
32 E.
45
1
B.
2
32
C.
9
D. 2
3
E.
2
16 CONQUERING SAT MATH

9. Set X = even integers and Set Y = odd integers. 15. Which of the following choices could be equal to set
Therefore X ∩ Y = Z if
A. prime numbers X = {2, 5, 6, 7,9} and Y = {2, 5, 7}
B. integers
C. empty set X ∪ Y ∪ Z = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
D. composite numbers
E. whole numbers X ∩ Z = {2, 6}
Y ∩ Z = {2}
10. Which of the following number sets has the property
that the sum of any two numbers in the set is also in A. Z = {1,4,8}
the set? B. Z = {1,3,8}
I. Even integers C. Z = {1,3,4,8}
II. Odd integers D. Z = {1,2,3,4,6,8}
III. Composite numbers E. Z = {1,2,3,5,6,8}
A. I 16. For which of the following values of x is x3 < x not a
B. II true statement?
C. III
D. I and II A. −3
E. I and III B. −2
1
 3 1 2 C. −
11.  +  ÷ 1 = 2
5 3 5
1
12. 8 8 D.
3
5 5
a b 1
E.
+4 +4 2
24 36
17. The first term in a geometric sequence is 2, and the
What is the value of b − a common ratio is 3. The first term in an arithmetic se-
quence is 3, and the common difference is 3. Let set
13. The first term in a geometric sequence is 3 and the 4th X be the set containing the first six terms of the geo-
term is 81. What is the 10th term of the sequence? metric sequence and set Y be the set containing the
A. 177,147 first six terms of the arithmetic sequence. What is the
B. 59,049 sum of the elements in X ∩ Y?
C. 19,683
D. 6,561
E. 2,187
4 2
14. Multiplying a number by and then dividing by
5 5
is the same as doing what to the number?
A. Dividing by 4
1
B. Multiplying by
2
C. Multiplying by 2
D. Dividing by 5
E. Multiplying by 5
CHAPTER 3 / FACTORS AND MULTIPLES 27

PRACTICE SAT QUESTIONS

1. What is the sum of all the factors of 24? 7. When x is divided by 8, the remainder is 3. What is
A. 46 the remainder when 4x is divided by 8?
B. 49 A. 1
C. 50 B. 2
D. 60 C. 3
E. 66 D. 4
E. 5
2. What is the greatest number of 3s that can be multi-
plied together and still have a result less than 250? 8. Let x, y, and z be positive integers such that y is a
A. 3 multiple of x and z. All of the following statements
B. 4 are true except for:
C. 5 A. y z is a multiple of x.
D. 6 B. x is a factor of y.
E. 7 C. x z is a factor of y.
D. z divides evenly into y.
3. Which of the following must be true about the sum E. x divides evenly into y z.
of all the prime numbers between 20 and 30?
A. It is a prime number. 9. When a two-digit number is divided by 5 the remain-
B. It is an odd number. der is 2. Which of the following statements must be
C. It is a factor of 156. true about the two-digit number?
D. It is a multiple of 5. A. The sum of all the digits is odd.
E. It is a factor of 10. B. The digit in the one’s place is odd.
C. The number is prime.
4. At a dinner party each table can seat eight people. If D. The number is odd.
100 people attend the party, what is the minimum E. The digit in the one’s place is prime.
number of tables that are needed?
A. 12 10. The sum of 3 consecutive integers is 15. How many
B. 13 distinct prime factors does the product of these three
C. 14 numbers have?
D. 15 A. 2
E. 16 B. 3
C. 4
5. What is the greatest integer that evenly divides both D. 5
48 and 64? E. 6

6. Let P be a prime number greater than 4. How many 11. If a, b, and c are all integers greater than 1 and a b =
distinct prime factors does 9 P have? 21 and b c = 39, then which of the following choices
A. 2 gives the correct ordering of the numbers?
B. 3 A. b < a < c
C. 4 B. c < a < b
D. 5 C. a < b < c
E. 6 D. b < c < a
E. a < c < b
28 CONQUERING SAT MATH

12. How many positive integers less than 20 have an odd 14. How many distinct composite numbers can be formed
number of distinct factors? by adding 2 of the first 5 prime numbers?
A. 12
B. 10 15. A rope is 13 feet long. How many ways can the rope
C. 8 be cut into more than one piece so that the length of
D. 6 each piece is a prime number?
E. 4 A. 4
B. 5
13. In the repeating decimal 0.714285714285 . . . , what C. 6
is the 50th digit to the right of the decimal point? D. 7
E. 8
CHAPTER 4 / RATIOS AND PROPORTIONS 37

PRACTICE SAT QUESTIONS

1. 7:4 = 21:x; what is the value of x? 7. In a pet store there are 12 dogs and 10 cats. The ratio
A. 12 of dogs to cats is proportional to the ratio of hamsters
B. 10 to guinea pigs. How many hamsters are there in the
C. 8 store if there are 15 guinea pigs?
D. 6
E. 4 8. The ratio of a person’s weight on the moon to his or
1
her weight on Earth is . If a person weighs 180
2. Julie drinks 4 bottles of water every day. How many 6
bottles of water does she drink in a week? pounds on Earth, how much does he or she weigh on
the moon?
A. 20
B. 22 A. 30 pounds
C. 24 B. 180 pounds
D. 26 C. 360 pounds
E. 28 D. 1,080 pounds
E. 1,800 pounds
3. Two iced lattes cost $5. How much does it cost for
seven iced lattes? 9. Jerry went for an 18-mile bike ride and got a flat after
2
A. $16.5 he completed of his trip. How many more miles of
B. $17 9
of the trip does Jerry have to complete after he fixes
C. $17.5
his flat?
D. $18
E. $19.5 A. 4 miles
B. 9 miles
4. On a certain map, 10 miles is represented by 1.5 cen- C. 12 miles
timeters. What is the distance on the map that repre- D. 14 miles
sents 40 miles? E. 18 miles
A. 4 centimeters
10. Dan is preparing for a 10-mile race. He will run the
B. 5 centimeters
first 5 miles at an average speed of 6 miles per hour,
C. 6 centimeters
the next 3 miles at an average speed of 8 miles per
D. 7 centimeters
hour, and the final 2 miles at an average speed of 10
E. 8 centimeters
miles per hour. How many hours, rounded to the
nearest hundredth of an hour, will it take Dan to run
5. Dave and Chad took a 3,000-mile trip from New
3 the race if he follows his plan?
Jersey to Oregon. Chad Drove of the total distance.
4
How many miles did Dave drive? 11. In a classroom of 25 students, 10 of the students are
females. What is the ratio of males to females in the
A. 2,500 miles
classroom?
B. 2,250 miles
C. 1,500 miles A. 5:2
D. 750 miles B. 2:5
E. 500 miles C. 5:3
D. 2:3
6. 3 gallons of paint are needed for a wall that is 100 ft2. E. 3:2
How many gallons of paint must be purchased at the
store for 480 ft2 of wall space?
A. 14 gallons
B. 15 gallons
C. 16 gallons
D. 17 gallons
E. 18 gallons
38 CONQUERING SAT MATH

12. A car tire rotates 3,360 times every 4 miles. How 17. A company produces baseballs at 3 different plants:
many times will the car tire rotate in 50 miles? Plant A, Plant B, and Plant C. Doubling Plant A’s
A. 42,000 rotations 1
production is equal to of the company’s total pro-
B. 84,000 rotations 3
C. 100,000 rotations duction. Doubling Plant B’s production is equal to
D. 168,000 rotations the company’s total production. Tripling Plant C’s
E. 672,000 rotations production is equal to the company’s total produc-
tion. What is the ratio of Plant A’s production to
13. A baseball team has a total of 18 pitchers. The ratio of Plant B’s production to Plant C’s production?
right-hand pitcher to total number of pitchers is 5:6. A. 1:3:2
How many left-hand pitchers does the team have? B. 3:1:2
A. 18 C. 2:1:3
B. 15 D. 1:2:3
C. 13 E. 3:2:1
D. 5
E. 3 18. A person running an 800-meter race averages 130 me-
3
ters per minute for the first of the race. The aver-
14. An airplane traveled at a speed of 600 miles per hour 4
for 90 minutes. How far did the airplane travel? age speed for the remainder of the race is 145 me-
ters per minute. What is the person’s average speed
A. 54,000 miles
for the entire 800 meters rounded to the nearest
B. 12,000 miles
whole number?
C. 900 miles
D. 600 miles
19. Company A, Company B, and Company C are three
E. 450 miles
Internet providers in a certain area of the country.
The ratio of subscribers of A to B to C is 2:5:6. If
15. Company A, Company B, and Company C are the
there are a total of 65,000 subscriptions, how many
top three cell phone providers in a certain area of the
of the 65,000 use Company A and Company C?
country. The ratio of subscribers of A to B to C is
5:4:3. If Company A has 1,000 subscriptions, what is A. 55,000
the total number of subscribers between Company A, B. 40,000
Company B, and Company C? C. 35,000
D. 30,000
16. If Greg lost 20 pounds, then the ratio of Ted’s weight E. 25,000
4
to Greg’s weight would be . If Ted weighs 20. Store A, Store B, and Store C sell soccer balls. The
3
180 pounds, what was Greg’s initial weight? ratio of the number of soccer balls sold of A to B is
7
A. 115 pounds . The ratio of the number of soccer balls sold of B
4
B. 125 pounds 5
C. 135 pounds to C is . If Store C sold 36 soccer balls, how many
3
D. 145 pounds soccer balls did Store A sell?
E. 155 pounds
A. 75
B. 90
C. 95
D. 105
E. 110
CHAPTER 5 / PERCENTS 49

PRACTICE SAT QUESTIONS

1. 15% of what number is 18? 7. There are 15 students on a yearbook committee. 40%
A. 102 of the students are females. How many students on
B. 110 the committee are males?
C. 112 A. 6
D. 120 B. 9
E. 125 C. 12
D. 13
2. What percent of 60 is 14? E. 15
A. 23%
B. 23.3% 8. A camping tent went on sale from $80 to $60. A
camping chair that originally cost $20 was dis-
1 counted by the same percent. What is the new price
C. 23 %
3 of the camping chair?
D. 23.6% A. 25
B. 20
2
E. 23 % C. 15
3 D. 10
E. 5
3. 13 of the 18 players on the varsity soccer team are
seniors. What percent of the players on the team are 9. Jerry, Will, and Al all work at the same company.
not seniors? Jerry earns 80% of Will’s salary, and Will earns 75%
of Al’s salary. What percent of Al’s salary is equal to
7
A. 27 % Jerry’s salary?
9
A. 80%
5 B. 75%
B. 27 % C. 70%
9
D. 65%
C. 27.7% E. 60%
1
D. 27 % 10. 60% of the students at the high school play sports.
7
14% of the students who play sports play baseball.
E. 27.8% What percent of the students in the school play
baseball?
4. What is 12% of 70? A. 4.6%
A. 8.4 B. 4.8%
B. 8.5 C. 6.4%
C. 8.6 D. 8.4%
D. 8.7 E. 10.6%
E. 8.8
11. Alex weighs 185 pounds. If he decreases his weight
5. What percent of 42 is 25% of 56? by 10%, what will be his new weight?
A. 160 pounds
6. Erin received a raise at her job from $14 per hour to B. 166.5 pounds
$17 per hour. What is the percent increase of her C. 170 pounds
raise? D. 170.5 pounds
E. 175.5 pounds
50 CONQUERING SAT MATH

12. A house was appraised at $300,000. One year later 17. On the first day of a two-day fishing trip, George
the house was appraised at $335,000. At what per-
1
cent did the appraised price of the house increase? caught 9 trout; 33 % of the trout are rainbow trout.
3
2
A. 11 % By the end of the fishing trip, George caught 6 more
3 trout, but none are rainbow trout. What percent of all
1 the trout that George caught are rainbow trout?
B. 11 %
3 1
A. 33 %
C. 11% 3
2 B. 33%
D. 13 % 2
3 C. 22 %
9
1
E. 13 % D. 20%
3 E. 15%

13. 16% of s equals t. 10% of t equals 40. What is the 18. A television set is on sale for 15% off the original
value of s − t? price. If the sale price is $340, what was the original
price of the televisions set?
14. Below is a table showing the classes that Mr. Lipton A. $340
taught and the number of students in each class. If no B. $370
student was enrolled in more than one class, what C. $400
percent of the students in Mr. Lipton’s classes did D. $440
not take Statistics? E. $470

19. Dan needs to gain 8% of his current body weight to

Algebra Statistics Calculus wrestle in weight Class A. Dan needs to lose the
same percent of his current weight to wrestle in
35 55 10
weight Class B. What percent of Dan’s Class A
weight, to the nearest tenth, does he need to lose to
get to his Class B weight?
15. If x percent of 80 is 12, then x percent of what num-
ber is 18?
20. During last year’s baseball season, a certain player
A. 112 has 625 at bats and gets a hit 32% of the time. This
B. 115 season the player increased the at bats by 12%, and
C. 117 got a hit 34% of the time. What is the percent in-
D. 118 crease in the number of hits?
E. 120
21. Mike has a goal to bench press 220 pounds. When he
16. The percent increase from 8 to 14 is equal to the per- started working out, Mike was able to lift 150 pounds.
cent decrease from 35 to x. What is the value of x? He has currently increased that amount by 20%. What
A. 7.5 percent of his current lifting amount must Mike in-
B. 7.75 crease to reach his goal of 220 pounds?
C. 8.25 1
D. 8.5 A. 22 %
2
E. 8.75
B. 22%
C. 22.22%
2
D. 22 %
9
2
E. 22 %
11
CHAPTER 6 / MEAN, MEDIAN, AND MODE 59

PRACTICE SAT QUESTIONS

1. The average (arithmetic mean) of three numbers is 5. How many points did Ed score during the fourth
90. The sum of two of the numbers is 150. What is game?
the value of the third number? A. 12
A. 90 B. 11
B. 100 C. 10
C. 110 D. 9
D. 120 E. 8
E. 130
6. Say that Ed scored 16 points in the fourth game.
2. Using the data set, {30,70,40,50,90,40,60}, which of What should be added to Jay’s median score to equal
the following statements is correct? the median of Ed’s scores?
A. Median <mean <mode
B. Mode <mean <median 7. Blaire, Chen, Erin, Liz, and Mauro all participate in
C. Mode <median <mean a 1-mile race. The average (arithmetic mean) for the
D. Mean <mode <median times of all girls is 6.5 minutes. If the average time
E. Median <mean <mode for Blaire, Chen, and Erin is 6.7 minutes, what is
the average time for Liz and Mauro?
3. The average (arithmetic mean) of four numbers is 50. A. 6.1 minutes
Two of the numbers are 30 and 60. What is the aver- B. 6.2 minutes
age of the other two numbers? C. 6.3 minutes
A. 70 D. 6.4 minutes
B. 65 E. 6.5 minutes
C. 60
D. 55 8. What is the median of the modes in the dataset {−5,
E. 50 4, 3, 7, 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, −1, 7, 8, −4, 2, 6}?
A. 2
4. The average (arithmetic mean) of four consecutive B. 2.5
even integers is 5. What is the median of these four C. 3
numbers? D. 3.5
E. 4
The tables below show the points scored by two dif-
ferent basketball players, Jay and Ed. Ed’s average 9. The average of x and y is 7, and z = 3x + 2. What is
(arithmetic mean) for 4 games is 2 less than Jay’s the average of y and z?
average for 5 games. A. 2x + 8
B. 2x − 16
Use these data for Question 5 and Question 6. C. 2x + 16
D. x−8
Jay’s points Ed’s points E. x+8

20 15 10. The average of a set of n numbers is x. If each num-

ber is increased by y, then what is the average of the
16 21 new set of numbers?
25 A. x
17
15 B. y
C. n(x + y)
14 D. x + y
x+y
E.
n
60 CONQUERING SAT MATH

11. Mr. Jones administered a test to the students in each 14. If the average of 6 evenly spaced numbers is x, what
of his three Algebra II classes. The average (arith- is the median of the 6 numbers?
metic mean) of all the students in his classes was A. x
82.8. What is the average for his Period 8 class? B. 2x
x
C.
2
Period 1 Period 7 Period 8
D. 6x
Number of x
E.
students 16 19 15 6
Class average 85 80 ?
15. a, b, and c are all positive integers such that a + b +
c = 150, and none of these values are equal to each
other. What is the smallest possible value for the
A. 80
median of a, b, and c?
B. 81
C. 82 A. 5
D. 83 B. 4
E. 84 C. 3
D. 2
a+b+c+d E. 1
12. = 12 . If the average of a, b, c, d, and
4
16. s and t are positive integers whose average (arith-
e is 14, what is the value of e?
metic mean) is 9. If s < t, what is the median of all
A. 14 possible values of s?
B. 16
A. 6.5
C. 18
B. 6
D. 20
C. 5.5
E. 22
D. 5
E. 4.5
13. Frank took 4 history tests. Frank earned an 85, 92,
and 89 on the first three tests. If Frank’s average
17. The modes of a set of 9 numbers are x, y, and z, and
(arithmetic mean) for all 4 tests is 91, what did he
the average (arithmetic mean) of the 9 numbers is 20.
earn on his last test?
Three of the 9 numbers are 2x + 5, 2y, and 2z − 3.
A. 100 What is the value of 4(x + y + z)?
B. 99
A. 178
C. 98
B. 179
D. 97
C. 180
E. 96
D. 181
E. 182
CHAPTER 7 / POWERS AND RADICALS 71

PRACTICE SAT QUESTIONS

1. 93 × 272 = 3n, n = 9. 812 = 2x, x =

A. 4
1 B. 12
2. x −3
= ,x =
8 C. 24
D. 36
3. 4−a = 64, a = E. 42
A. 4 2
B. −4 10. c 5 = 4, c =
C. 3
D. −3 94 x
11. =
E. 2 273 x
A. 9x
4. 5 8 + 7 32 = 1
B. x
A. 18 2 3

B. 38 2 1
C.
9x
C. 23 4
D. 3x
D. 33 3 1
E. x
E. 38 3 4

5. 4 18 × 11 12 = 12. Which of the following is equal to 58x?

I. (54x)4
A. 12 6 II. (54x)2
III. (54x)(54x)
B. 34 6
A. I
C. 264 6 B. II
D. 264 3 C. III
D. I and II
E. 264 2 E. II and III
6. y−5 = 1,024, y = 13. n3 ≥ n2 for which of the following?
A. 5 I. n = 1
B. 4 II. n = 0
C. 3 III. n = −1
1 A. I
D.
5 B. II
1 C. III
E.
4 D. I and II
E. II and III
1
7. 2− n = ,n =
256

8. x = 4 a 2 bc3 , x =
A. 16a4b2c9
B. 16a4b2c6
C. 16a2bc3
D. 8a4b2c6
1 3
E. 2ab 2 c 2
72 CONQUERING SAT MATH

a2 b −6 c11 d −4 17. 9 x − 7 x − 36 = −16, x =

14. =
a −5b −2c 7 d 9 A. 5
a3b 4 B. 10
A. C. 20
c 4 d13
D. 50
a7 b 8 E. 100
B.
c 4 d13
a 7 c4  x2 
C. 18. x = 2, y = x 2 , ( y 2 − x 3 ) 3 y  =
b 4 d 13
A. 2
c7 d 4
D. B. 3
a4 b13 C. 4
a3c 4 D. 5
E. E. 6
b 8 d13
x
4 19. x + c y = d y, =
15. 27 x = 81, x = y
A. 2 A. d − c
B. 3 B. d − c
C. 4 C. c − d
D. 5 D. (d − c)2
E. 6
E. c−d

16. 3 x − 7 = 5, x =