Find two arithmetic means between 11 and 26 such that the difference between consecutive numbers is the same: 11,________ ,________, 26
(A)14, 18
(B) 15, 20
(C) 16, 21
(D) 17, 23
(E) 18, 24
The perimeter of a square is 36 inches. What is the area of the square, in square inches?
(F) 6 (G) 9 (H) 18 (J) 36 (K) 81
Correct Answer: K
On an xy-graph, three corners of a parallelogram are located at (3, 3), (4, – 4), and (–2, –1). Which of the following points could be the remaining corner?
(A) (8, 0)(B) (8, –1)(C) (–1, 9)(D) (–3, 6)(E) (–5, 7)
Correct Answer: D
The points P, Q, R, and S lie in that order on a straight line. The midpoint of 
is R and the midpoint of 
is Q. The length of 
is x feet and the length of 
is 4x - 16 feet. What is the length, in feet, of ?
(A) 32 (B) 20 (C) 16 (D) 8 (E) 4
Correct Answer: A
More ACT Math Exam Questions
- 1In the figure below, where
ABC ~ XYZ, lengths are given in inches and the perimeter of ABC is 576 inches. What is the length, in inches, of 
?
(Note: The symbol ~ means "is similar to.")
- 2
When x = 5 and y = 2, the expression
- 3In the figure below, all line segments that intersect are
perpendicular. Using only the segments and vertices in the figure, how
many distinct rectangles are there with areas less than the area of ADLI?
(Note: If 2 rectangles have all four vertices in common, then they are not distinct.)
- 4A sample of 300 jellybeans was removed from a barrel of jellybeans. All of the jellybeans in the barrel are one of four colors: red, orange, green, and purple. For the sample, the number of jellybeans of each color is shown in the table below.
, where n is the number of terms in the sequence. The sum of 5 consecutive terms in a given arithmetic sequence is 145, and x5 is 48. What is the sixth term of this sequence?