Alan has a rectangular photograph that is 20 centimeters wide by 30 centimeters long. Alan wants to reduce the area of the photograph by 264 square centimeters by decreasing the width and length by the same amount. What will be the new dimensions (width by length), in centimeters?
(A)11 by 24
(B) 12 by 22
(C) 12 by 28
(D) 14 by 24
(E) 16 by 21
At a certain company, 240 of the employees are women and the remaining 160 are men. What percentage of the company's workers are women?
（A）25%
（B） 33 
%
（C） 40%
（D） 60%
（E） 66
%
Correct Answer: D
Six equilateral triangles form the figure below. If the perimeter of each individual triangle is 15 inches, what is the perimeter of ABCDEF, in inches?
（A）18
（B） 30
（C） 60
（D） 54
（E） 90
Correct Answer: B
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.
Which of the following is closest to the percent decrease in Cameron's new accounts from January to February?
(F) 4.00% (G) 17.40% (H) 19.40% (J) 20.00% (K) 21.10%
Correct Answer: G
More ACT Math Exam Questions
- 1
Lisa has 5 fiction books and 7 nonfiction books on a table by her front door. As she rushes out the door one day, she takes a book at random. What is the probability that the book she takes is fiction?
- 2
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?
- 3The membership fees for WebFilms consist of a monthly charge of $14 and a one-time new-member fee of $16. Sherwood made a credit card payment of $100 to pay his WebFilms fees for a certain number of months, including the new-member fee. How many months of membership did Sherwood include in his credit card payment?
- 4In the standard (x, y) coordinate plane, the center of a circle lies in quadrant III. If the circle is tangent to the x-axis and the y-axis, which of the following is an equation for the circle?
- 5If 3x + 2y = 5, what is the value of the expression 6x + 4y - 7?