A boat departs Port Isabelle, Texas, traveling to an oil rig. The oil rig is located 9 miles east and 12 miles north of the boat’s departure point. About how many miles is the oil rig from the departure point?
(A)3
(B)
(C)15
(D)21
(E)225
In the following figure, the large quadrilateral is a square. What is the area of the shaded region in terms of x and y?
(F) 
(G) 
(H) 
(J) 
(K) 
Correct Answer: F
Whenever x and y are both integers, what is (6.0 × 10x)(5.0y × 10y)expressed in scientific notation?
(F) 30.0 × 100xy (G) 30.0 × 100xyy (H) 30.0 × 10xy (J) 3.0 × 10x + y + 1 (K) 3.0 × 10xy
Correct Answer: J
The 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?
(F) 4(G) 6(H) 7(J) 12(K) 14
Correct Answer: G
More ACT Math Exam Questions
- 1
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?
- 2
Consider all positive integer values a and b such that the product ab = 8. For how many values does there exist a positive integer c that satisfies both 2a = c and cb = 256?
- 3If 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?
- 4In the figure below, ABCD is a square. Points are connected on each pair of adjacent sides of ABCD
to form 4 congruent right triangles, as shown below. Each of these
triangles has one leg that is twice as long as the other leg. If the
area of the shaded region is 25 square feet, what is the area of square ABCD in square feet?
- 5
The following graph shows the number of new bank accounts that eight account executives have opened so far this week. Which of the following answer choices is the median number of accounts opened among these eight people?
