1.
The value of 17 × 98 + 17 × 2 =
(A) 1,550 (B) 1,600 (C) 1,700 (D) 1,800 (E) 1,850
Answer: C
2. How did you get your answer?
(A) I multiplied 17 × 98 and added that
to 17 × 2.
(B) I approximated and found the closest
match in the choices.
(C) I factored 17 to get 17(98 + 2).
(D) I guessed.
(E) By none of the above methods.
Analysis:
If you chose
A, you did the problem
the long way unless you used a calculator.
If you chose B, you probably approximated 98 by 100 and got 1,700.
If you chose
C, you factored out the 17 to get 17(98
+
2) = 17(100) = 1,700. This was the best strategy to use.
If you chose D, you probably didn’t know how to solve
the problem and just guessed.
If you chose
E, you did not use any of the methods above but used your own different
method.
MATH I
3. If 2x + 3y = 4 and y = 2, find the value of x.
(A) +2
(B) +1
(C) 0
(D) —1
(E) —2
Answer: D
4. Sarah is twice as old as John. Six years ago, Sarah was four times as
old as John was then In years, how old is John now?
(A) 3
(B) 9
(C) 18
(D) 20
(E) Cannot
be determined
Answer: B
5. The area of the above figure ABCD
(A) is 36
(B) is 108
(C) is 156
(D) is 1872
(E) Cannot be determined
Answer : A
CRITICAL READING
Fill in the
blank(s) with the appropriate choice:
1. The instructor displayed extreme
stubbornness; although he ______ the logic of the student’s argument, he_________
to acknowledge her conclusion as correct.
(A) accepted . . . refused
(B) concluded . . . consented
(C) denounced . . . declined
(D) asserted . . . acceded
(E) rejected . . . preferred
Answer: A
2. In spite of the______ of his presentation,
many people were ______with the
speaker’s concepts and ideas.
(A) interest . . . enthralled
(B) power . . . taken
(C) intensity . . . shocked
(D) greatness . . . gratified
(E) strength . . . bored
Answer: E
READING COMPREHENSION
Read the
following passage, then answer the questions:
Sometimes the meaning of glowing water is
ominous. Off the Pacific Coast of North America, it may mean that the sea is
filled with a minute plant that contains a poison of strange and terrible
virulence. About four days after this minute plant comes to alter the coastal
plankton, some of the fishes and shellfish in the vicinity become toxic. This
is because in their normal feeding, they have strained the poisonous plankton
out of the water.
3. Fish
and shellfish become toxic when they
(A) swim in poisonous water
(B) feed on poisonous plants or animals
(C) change their feeding habits
(D) give off a strange glow
(E) take strychnine into their systems
Answer: B
4. In the context of the passage, the
word virulence in line 4 means
(A) strangeness
(B) color
(C) calamity
(D) potency
(E) powerful odor
Answer: D
5. The
paragraph preceding the one in the passage most probably discussed the
(A) phenomena of the Pacific coastline
(B) poisons that affect man
(C) toxic plants in the sea
(D) characteristics of plankton
(E) phenomena of the sea