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A DVD player with a list price of $100 is marked down 30%. If John gets an employee discount of 20% off the sale price, how much does John pay for the DVD player ?

(A)$86.00

(B)$77.60

(C)$56.00

(D)$50.00

(E)$44.00

The length, in inches, of a box is 3 inches less than twice its width, in inches. Which of the following gives the length, l inches, in terms of the width, w inches, of the box?

(A)l = w + 3 (B)w + 3 (C)w – 3 (D)2w + 3 (E)2w – 3

Correct Answer: E

Which of the following expressions is equivalent to the expression given below?

(2x³ – x - 1) - 3(x⁴ + 2x³ - 2x² – x + 3)

(F) x¹⁴ - 3 (G) -3x¹⁴ (H) -3x⁴ + 8x³ - 6x² - 4x + 8 (J) -3x⁴ + 4x³ - 2x² - 2x - 3 (K) -3x⁴ - 4x³ + 6x² + 2x - 10

Correct Answer: K

The table below shows the percents of U.S. citizens who had ever consumed a certain brand-name soda, out of all soda consumers, for each year from 1986 through 2006.

The figure below shows a scatterplot of the data in the table and solid lines that are possible models for the data. Which of the 5 lines appears to be the best representation of the data?

(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E

Correct Answer: D