Dave leaves his house and bikes directly east for 3 miles. He then turns and bikes directly south for 4 miles. How many miles is Dave from his house?
(A)3
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6
(E) 7
Which of the following points on the xy-graph is the x-intercept of the equation y= 2x– 8?
(A) (0, 4)(B) (0, 
)(C) (4, 0)(D) (–4, 0)(E) (
, 0)
Correct Answer: C
The graph below shows the number of people visiting a museum during the first 5 months of the year. How many people need to visit the museum during June for the mean of the first 6 months to equal the mean of the first 5 months?
(F) 0 (G) 200 (H) 250 (J) 500 (K) 1,250
Correct Answer: H
If a + 3b = 27 and a - 3b = 9, then b = ?
(F) 3(G) 9(H) 14(J) 18(K) 36
Correct Answer: F
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The employees at Belinda's Paint Store are having a competition to see who can create the most new accounts over a period from January to June in a certain year. Data is missing because one of the employees began to erase it from the white board, thinking that the competition was over. The numbers in the chart below have been confirmed with the assistant manager's personal records.
At the beginning of the year, Maura wanted to average 30 new accounts per month for the first four months of the year. How many new accounts did she need to create in March in order to reach this goal?
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The table below gives the values of two functions, g and h, for various values of x. One of the functions expresses a relationship that can be expressed by the formula a + bx, where a and b are real number coefficients. What is the value of that function for x = 0?
- 4Two contractors bid on a job to build a brick wall in a yard. Contractor A charges a flat fee of $1,600 plus $2 per brick. Contractor B charges a flat fee of $400 plus $8 per brick. If x represents the number of bricks in the wall, which of the following equations could be solved to determine the number of bricks which would make B's charge to build the wall equal to A's charge?
- 5What is the least common multiple of 8, 2, 3a, 6b, and 4ab?