Algebra L State Test

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1. A radioactive substance decays exponentially.

The initial amount of the substance is 3 grams,


and over time, t, the amount, S(t), in grams, approaches 0.

Which graph could be a model for f(t)?

2. Two functions are given.


f(x)=x2+3x-2
g(x) = -x+1

What is one value for x such that f (x) = g(x)

x = -2 +√7

3. Michelle holds a small rock in her hand. Density (D) can be found using the formula D =
mass /volume Which unit would be the most appropriate for calculating the density of the
rock in Michelle's hand?

g/cm³

4. What two numbers have a sum of 217 and a difference of 85?

x=151
y=66

5. Two soccer teams join a league in which every team plays in 12 games per season. The
number of points that the two teams score each game is recorded in the dot plots shown.
Team A Scores Team B Scores. Complete the statement to correctly compare the dot plots.

No answer provided.
6. Which graph represents a function whose domain is the set of non-negative real numbers?

7. Juan buys peaches and grapefruit at the store. He writes the equations shown to model the
relationship between the number of pounds of peaches, p, and the number of pounds of
grapefruit, g, that he buys.

p+g=2.5 1.58p+1.09g = 3.46

What is the total number of pounds of peaches and grapefruit that Juan buys?

p=1.5 pounds of peaches and g=1 pound of grapefruit.

The total number of pounds of peaches and grapefruit that Juan buys is 1.5+1=2.5 pounds.

8. For which relation is y not a function of x?

9. Alton studies the growth patterns of sassafras trees and yellow birch trees in the 88 counties
in Ohio. He finds that approximately 27% of the counties have both species of trees, yellow
birch only grows in 24 counties, and 1 out of 11 counties grows neither species.

Complete the table to show the relationship between the number of counties where sassafras
trees and yellow birch trees grow
10. A system of inequalities is given.
y≤x+4
y3x-1
Which graph shows the solution set for the system of inequalities?

11. A function is shown f(x)=2/3x+3.


What is the value of f(12)?

f(12) = f(11)

12. Which expression is equivalent to (2x2 + 3) (x + 4)?


a) 2x3+12
b) 2x²+11x + 12
c) 2x3+6x2+4x + 12
d) 2x3+8x2 + 3x + 12

d) 2x3+8x2 + 3x + 12

13. The first four terms of an arithmetic sequence are given. 27, 32, 37, 42,

What is the 60th term of the sequence?

322

14. Noah and Will go to different car dealerships to compare the average prices of several cars.
The data shown are the prices of the cars at each dealership.

Note that each set of data has an outlier


Noah's data set has the average car price of 8,200 without the outlier and 13,625 with the
outlier. Will's data set has the average car price of 8,300 without the outlier and 13,350 with the
outlier.

15. An equation is shown. 16x²+10x-27= 6x + 5 What are the solutions to this equation?

x=1
x=2

16. A gas station advertises its gasoline at $2.619 per gallon. Mia uses cash to buy 6.1 gallons of
gasoline. Which amount most realistically shows how much Mia spent on gasoline?

15.98

17. Nicole is preparing trail mix to sell at a fund-raiser.- She has 35 ounces (oz) of banana chips.
- She buys c bags of cranberries and r bags of raisins containing 24 oz of dried fruit each.
- She mixes all of the ingredients together and makes 4 oz servings costing $1.25 each. The
expression 1.25( (35+24(c+r))/4 ) represents the total sales, in dollars, of trail mix at the fund-
raiser.

Create an expression that represents the total sales, in dollars, of trail mix if she increases the
size of each serving by 2 o2 and the cost per serving by $0.70.

35+24 ( c+ r )
1.95( )
6

18. A fitness club charges members an initial fee and a separate monthly membership fee. The
equation of the function given models the total fee, f(x), in dollars, that a person pays for x
months of membership.

f(x)= 30x + 25

What does the number 30 represent in this situation?

a) the initial membership fee


b) the monthly membership fee
c) the number of months that a person is a member
d) the total amount that a member pays in monthly fees

19. What is the value of a in the equation 81b=a4b?


3b

20. The graph shown models the average number of visitors per month to Adam's educational
blog for a period of 3 months after he introduces video lessons.

The average number of monthly users at the introduction of video lessons is 4000. For each of
the first three months after video lessons are introduced, the average number of monthly
visitors increases by 600 per month.

21. An equation is given.

y = 3x + c

Create an equivalent equation by solving for x in terms of y and c

x= y−c/3

22. Ten children played arcade games. The table shows the amount of time each child played and
the number of tokens each child used in that time. The correlation coefficient is 0.363 for
these data. Which statement is the best interpretation of the correlation coefficient?

a) There is a strong negative association between the number of minutes played and the
number of tokens used.
b) There is a weak negative association between the number of minutes played and the
number of tokens used.
c) There is a strong positive association between the number of minutes played and the
number of tokens used.
d) There is a weak positive association between the number of minutes played and the number
of tokens used.

23. An incomplete table of values for an exponential function is shown. The exponential function
is of the form y ab, where a is a real number such that a and b is a positive real number not
equal to 1.

Complete the table with possible values for the exponential function.

x y
0 96
1 192
2 384
3 768

24. The histograms shown display the number of cans of food donated by students in the
freshman class and the sophomore class at a school.

Which statement is true?

The freshman class has a greater mean number of cans donated than the sophomore class.

25. Stephanie adds pennies, nickels and quarters to a scale until the mass of the combined coins is
75 grams. Each penny has a mass of 2.5 grams, each nickel has a mass of 5 grams and each
quarter has a mass of 5.7 grams. Create an equation to model this situation, where x is the
number of pennies, y is the number of nickels and z is the number of quarters that Stephanie
can put on the scale so that the mass of the combined coins is exactly 75 grams.

2.5x + 5y + 5.7z = 75

26. The graph of a function is shown.

No answer provided.

27. A table of values for a linear function is shown.

What is the missing value in the table?

28. The number of visitors who attended the Montgomery County Fair from 2012 to 2016 is
shown in the table. Jesse wants to display these data on a set of axes so that it is easy to see
how the number of visitors increases or decreases from year to year. Which set of axes would
be best for Jesse to use?

Probably C.
29. Henry places x marbles into an empty bucket. Each marble has the same weight The weight, in
ounces, of the bucket and marbles can be calculated using the expression shown.

3x +8

What does the term 8 represent in this expression?


a) the weight of each marble
b) the weight of the empty bucket
c) the number of marbles in the bucket
d) the total weight of the bucket and marbles

30. A function is given.

f(x) = 4x-8

What is the input of the function when the output is 20?

x=7

31. An equation is shown. 3x + 4-= 19

What is the value of x?

x=6

32. A biologist records the growth of a colony of bacteria in an incubator set at 35° Fahrenheit. His
results are recorded in the graph shown. Which is the meaning of the y-intercept in the
biologist's graph?

a) the temperature of the incubator he used


b) the rate at which the area of the bacteria colony multiplies
c) the area of the bacteria colony he originally places in the incubator
d) the area of the bacteria colony one day after his first measurement

33. A salesperson earns $1,400 per month plus $1 commission for every $25 worth of product that
she sells each month. She sells an average of x dollars worth of products each month. Which
equation represents a linear model of the salesperson's total average monthly income, y?

25
a) y= x +1400
1
1
b) y= +1400
25
1400
c) y= x +25
1
1
d) y= x +25
1400

34. A store sells two different-sized laptops, 11-inch and 17-inch. The amount of profit, f, in
dollars, a store earns from selling n 11-inch laptops can be modeled by the function f (n) = 95n.
The amount of profit the store earns from selling 17-inch laptops is modeled by a linear
function as shown in the table.

Number of 17icnh Laptop Profit Earned


2 240
4 480
6 840

What is the difference, in dollars, in the amount of profit a store earns from selling a single 17-
inch laptop and a single 11-inch laptop?

Difference = Profit from 17-inch laptop − Profit from 11-inch laptop


Difference = 120−95= $25

35. Which statistical measure changes when every number in a data set is increased by 10?

a) range
b) mean
c) standard deviation
d) interquartile range

36. A linear function is given.

a (x)=26-12.4x

The function b is also linear. The equation a (x) = b (x) has exactly one solution at x = 5.

Create a possible equation for function b.

b(x)=−12.4x+26.
37. The length of the curve of a satellite dish can be modeled by the function f(d) , where d is the
horizontal distance, in inches (in.), from the left edge of the satellite dish shown. What is the
domain of the function?

A) all real numbers from 0 to 18


B) all real numbers greater than 0
C) all real numbers from 0 to 5.05
D) all real numbers from 5.05 to 18

38. A group of 30 students rented small canoes and large canoes at a river park. The group rented
twice as many small canoes as large canoes.

There were 3 students in each small canoe.


There were 4 students in each large canoe.

Let x represent the number of small canoes and let y represent the number of large canoes.
Create a set of equations that can be used to determine the number of each type of canoe the
group rented

x×3+y×4=30
x=2yx=2y

39. Bryson collects data on the depth of a river at various points and the velocity of the river at
those points. His data have a correlation coefficient of -0.9382.

Which scatterplot could represent Bryson's data?

40. A system of equations is given

y = x²-9
y=2x-1

What is one solution to the system of equations?

(2,−5) or (−4,7)

41. The equations of two functions are given.

f(x) = 2^x
g(x) = 10x2 + 25

Which statement best compares the values of the two functions?

a) The value of g(x) always exceeds the value of f(x).


b) The value of f(x) always exceeds the value of g(x).
c) The value of g(x) will exceed the value of f(x) for large values of x.
d) The value of f(x) will exceed the value of g(x) for large values of x.

42. An expression is shown.

x 2−4 y 2

Which expression is equivalent to the given expression?

(x +2 y)(x−2 y )

43. The values of several terms in a sequence are shown in the table.

Term Value
Second 5
Fourth 12
Seventh 22.5

Find the first term, f (1).

f(1) = 1.5

44. An inequality is shown. (x-5) (x+2) <0

Select all of the numbers that belong to the solution set of this inequality.
-2, 5
45. Ms. Musto opened a new coffee shop. She recorded the number of customers she served
between opening and noon for the first 20 days of business. Her results are shown on the
graph. Which line best fits the data?

1. y = 3x + 10
2. y = 2x + 20
3. y = 3x + 30
4. y = x + 20

46. Luke compares the solutions to two systems of linear equations. Complete the statement to
show Luke's comparison of the two systems of linear equations.

The solution to System 1 will be the same as the solution to System 2 because the second
equation is identical in both systems, and the first equation of System 1 is a scalar multiple of
the first equation of System 2.

47. Athena starts a new job. She has $40 in her bank account and decides to add $10 to the
account at the end of each week of work, where w represents the number of weeks she
works. Athena does not add money to the account at the end of her first week of work.

Create a function f (w) that models the amount of money Athena has in her bank account at
the end of w weeks of work, where w≥ 1.

f(w) = 40 + 10(w - 1)

48. The population of rabbits on a large island doubles every year. On January 1, the population is
150 rabbits. Which equation can be used to find the number of years, x, it will take for the
population to reach 4,800?

a) 4,800 = 2x + 150
b) 4,800 = 2.150
c) 4,800 = 2+ 150
d) 4,800 = 150 . 2x
49. A scientist studies the population of an insect colony. She begins her study with 10,000 insects
in the colony and measures the population of the colony each year. She uses the given
formula to model the insect population, P. t years since the beginning of the study.

P = 10,000(1.08)t

By what percent does the insect population grow each year?

8%

50. Two towns track total rainfall since the beginning of the year. The year-to-date total rainfall
amounts in the two towns are recorded for four weeks in March. The data for each town are
shown on the graphs. The total rainfall, r, in inches, for a weeks since the beginning of March
can be modeled by the equation r = 2.4+0.36n for Town A and by the equation r = 2.0+0.54n
for Town B. Complete the statements to correctly compare the linear models.

The amount of total rainfall in Town A at the beginning of March is equal to Town B. The
average rate of increase in Town A is less than Town B.

51. An equation is given.

5 y−2 x=5

Create an ordered pair that represents one point on the graph of the equation

(0,1)

52. Which situation describes a quantity that increases by a constant percent rate?

A) The size of one photo is 15% larger than the size of another photo.
B) The number of plants in a pond is 85% of the number from the previous year.
C) The population of one city is 85% greater than the population of another city.
D) The number of magazine subscribers each year is 15% greater than the previous year.

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