How many irrational numbers are there between 1 and 6 ?
(A)1
(B)3
(C)4
(D)10
(E)Infinitely many
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.
By 2002 there were 74,672,120 U.S. citizens who had consumed the brand-name soda. According to this information, approximately how many people were soda consumers, of the brand-name soda or other sodas, in 2002?
(F) 4,700,000,000 (G) 150,000,000 (H) 119,000,000 (J) 47,000,000 (K) 37,500,000
Correct Answer: H
The amplitude of the trigonometric function shown below is defined as the average of the absolute values of the maximum value of f(x) and the minimum value of f(x). The trigonometric function graphed below can be described by the equation f(x) = a sin(bx + c), where a, b, and c are real numbers. Which of the following values describes the amplitude of this function?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) π (E) 2π
Correct Answer: C
A line in a plane separates the plane into how many sets of points that do not contain the line?
(A)0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) Cannot be determined
Correct Answer: C
More ACT Math Exam Questions
- 1Stacie has a bag of solid colored jellybeans. Each jellybean is orange, purple, or pink. If she randomly selects a jellybean from the bag, the probability that the jellybean is orange is , and the probability that it is purple is . If there are 72 jellybeans in the bag, how many pink jellybeans are in the bag?
- 2Point X is located at -15 on the real number line. If point Y is located at -11, what is the midpoint of line segment XY?
- 3Emilia is going to bake cookies. She rolls out a square of dough that
is 12 inches wide by 12 inches long and cuts 9 identical circular
cookies from the dough, as shown in the figure below. Each circular
cut-out is tangent to the circular cut-outs next to it and tangent to
the edge or edges of the square piece of dough it touches.
Approximately, what is the area, in square inches, of the remaining
dough, as shown in the figure?
- 4
Alfred and Rani both picked different two-digit numbers. If you multiply Alfred’s number by 5 and double Rani’s number, the sum is 300. If you double Alfred’s number and multiply Rani’s number by 3, the sum of the two numbers is 252. What is the sum of their two numbers?
- 5The second term of an arithmetic sequence is -2, and the third term is 8. What is the first term?
(Note: An arithmetic sequence has a common difference between consecutive terms.)