For all real numbers x and y such that the product of y and 4 is x, which of the following expressions represents the sum of y and 4 in terms of x?
(A)x + 4
(B) 4x + 4
(C) 4(x + 4)
(D)
(E)
If x and y are integers such that y > 12 and 2x + y = 19, which of the following is the solution set for x?
(A)x ≥ 4 (B) x ≥ 3 (C) x ≤ 4 (D) x ≤ 3 (E) x ≤ 0
Correct Answer: D
Pat's Pastries baked 80 apple pies and 50 loaves of apple bread to be sold at a 2-day Fall Festival. The pies were sold for $25 each and the loaves of bread were sold for $10 each. Which of the following expressions gives the total amount of money, in dollars, collected from selling all of the apple pies and B of the loaves of bread?
(A) 35B (B) 1,570B (C) B + 80 (D) 10B + 1,250 (E) 10B + 2,000
Correct Answer: E
If the lengths of adjacent sides of a rectangular playground have measures of 4x - 3 and 2x2 + 7 units, respectively, then which of the following expressions represents the area, in square units, of the playground?
(A)2x2 + 4x + 4 (B) 4x2 + 8x + 8 (C) 8x3 - 21 (D) 8x3 - 6x2 + 28x - 21 (E) 8x3 + 6x2 + 28x + 21
Correct Answer: D
More ACT Math Exam Questions
- 1The stem-and-leaf plot below shows the scores for each golfer in a
recent tournament at the Lehigh Valley Golf Club. There were 13 golfers
participating in the tournament.
(Note: For example, a score of 72 would have a stem value of 7 and a leaf value of 2.) Which of the following is closest to the mean score of all the golfers in the tournament?
- 2
A certain 18-quart stockpot is filled completely with water and exposed to a heat source so that the water boils away at a constant rate. The water remaining in the stockpot can be approximated by the following equation: y = 18 - 0.2x, where x is the number of minutes that the pot has been heated for 0 ≤ x ≤ 90, and y is the number of quarts remaining in the pot. According to this equation, which of the following statements is true about this stockpot?
- 3
If the equation for the line shown in the following graph is , what is the value of kn?
- 4
Given parallelogram ABCD below and parallelogram EFGH (not shown) are similar, which of the following statements must be true about the two shapes?
- 5Jane wants to bring her bowling average up to an 85 with her performance on her next game. So far she has bowled 5 out of 7 equally weighted games, and she has an average score of 83. What must her score on her next game be in order to reach her goal?