Regents_Practice_0616.pdf - Part I Answer all 24 questions...

Part I
Answer all 24 questions in this part. Each correct answer will receive 2 credits. No partial
credit will be allowed. Utilize the information provided for each question to determine your
answer. Note that diagrams are not necessarily drawn to scale. For each statement or question,
choose the word or expression that, of those given, best completes the statement or answers
the question. Record your answers on your separate answer sheet. [
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computations.
1 The expression x
4
16 is equivalent to
(1) ( x
2
8)( x
2
8) (3) ( x
2
4)( x
2
4)
(2) ( x
2
8)( x
2
8) (4) ( x
2
4)( x
2
4)
2 An expression of the fifth degree is written with a leading coefficient
of seven and a constant of six. Which expression is correctly written
for these conditions?
(1) 6 x
5
x
4
7 (3) 6 x
7
x
5
5
(2) 7 x
6
6 x
4
5 (4) 7 x
5
2 x
2
6
3 The table below shows the year and the number of households in
a building that had high-speed broadband internet access.
For which interval of time was the average rate of change the smallest ?
(1) 2002 – 2004 (3) 2004 – 2006
(2) 2003 – 2005 (4) 2005 – 2007
Number of
Households
11 16 23 33 42 47
Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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4 The scatterplot below compares the number of bags of popcorn and
the number of sodas sold at each performance of the circus over
one week.
Which conclusion can be drawn from the scatterplot?
y
x
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450
400
350
300
250
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150
150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
Soda Sales
Popcorn Sales
Popcorn Sales and Soda Sales
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computations.
5 The Celluloid Cinema sold 150 tickets to a movie. Some of these were
child tickets and the rest were adult tickets. A child ticket cost $7.75
and an adult ticket cost $10.25. If the cinema sold $1470 worth
of tickets, which system of equations could be used to determine
how many adult tickets, a , and how many child tickets, c , were sold?
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6 The tables below show the values of four different functions for
given values of x .
Which table represents a linear function?
(1) f ( x ) (3) h ( x )
(2) g ( x ) (4) k ( x )
7 The acidity in a swimming pool is considered normal if the average
of three pH readings, p , is defined such that 7.0 p 7.8.
If the first two readings are 7.2 and 7.6, which value for the third
reading will result in an overall rating of normal?
(1) 6.2 (3) 8.6
(2) 7.3 (4) 8.8