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ALGEBRA - UNIT TEST

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The exam is good for 2 hours.

1. Mr. Derbyshire makes a business trip from his 8x  10

8. Simplify
house to Loganville in 2 hours. One hour later, he 2
4x  1
returns home in traffic at a rate 20 mph less than
7 3 7 3
his rate going. If Mr. Derbyshire is gone a total of 6 a.  b. 
2x  1 2x  1 2x  1 2x  1
hours, how fast (in mph) did he travel on each leg of
the trip? 3 7 7 3
c.  d. 
a. 80, 60 b. 50, 30 c. 70, 50 d. 60, 40 2x  1 2x  1 2x  1 2x  1

2. Determine the number of different triangles which 9. Forty liters of a 60% salt solution are reduced to a
can be formed by joining the six vertices of a 45% solution. How much must be drained off and
hexagon, the vertices of each triangle being on the replaced with distilled water so that the resulting
hexagon. solution will contain only 45% salt?
a. 18 b. 20 c. 15 d. 23 a. 15 b. 10 c. 5 d. 20

3. Determine the probability p that in a family of 5 10. Six persons seat themselves at a round table. What
children there will be at least 2 boys and 1 girl. is the probability that two given persons are
Assume that the probability of a male birth is 1/2. adjacent ?
a. 7/32 b. 25/32 c. 1/2 d. 17/32 a. 2/5 b. 1/5 c. 3/5 d. 4/5

4. One bag contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls, 11. Sheri's age in 20 years will be the same as Terry's
and a second bag contains 3 white balls and 5 age is now. Ten years from now, Terry's age will be
black balls. One ball is drawn at random from the twice Sheri's. What are their present ages?
second bag and is placed unseen in the first bag. a. 20, 40 b. 10, 30 c. 5, 25 d. 15, 35
What is the probability that a ball now drawn from
the first bag is white? 12. What time after 5 o’clock will the hands of the clock
a. 45/64 b. 25/64 c. 35/64 d. 55/64 be perpendicular for the second time?
a. 5:39.39 b. 5:36.36 c. 5:43.64 d. 5:10.91
5. Compute the sum of the first 100 positive integers
exactly divisible by 7. 13. The probability that a patient recovers from a
a. 27530 b. 53530 c. 25630 d. 35350 delicate heart operation is 0.9. What is the
probability that exactly 5 out 7 patients will survive?
 8 a. 0.148 b. 0.1240 c. 0.128 d. 0.240
1 
6. Which term of the binomial expansion of  x  
 x  14. In how many ways can 5 letters be mailed if there
does not constain x? are 3 mailboxes available?
a. 70 b. 40 c. 50 d. 60 a. 125 b. 35 c. 15 d. 243

7. Twelve different pictures are available, of which 4 15. Which term of the binomial expansion of
are to be hung in a row. In how many ways can this  3 1  10
be done?  2x   constains x 6 ?
 x 
a. 1980 b. 10560 c. 495 d. 11880 
6 6 6 6
a. 1920x b. 3360x c. 210x d. 120x

16. What is the harmonic mean between 3/8 and 4?

a. 24/35 b. 35/24 c. 32/13 d. 13/32

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17. Find the 16th term of the arithmetic sequence: 26. The probability that a student takes chemistry and is
4,7,10, .... on the honor rolls is 0.042. The probability that a
a. 49 b. 52 c. 43 d. 46 student is on the honor roll is 0.21. What is the
probability that the student is taking chemistry,
18. At a meeting, after everyone had shaken hands given that the student is on the honor roll?
once with everyone else, it was found that 45 a. 0.042 b. 0.21 c. 0.2 d. 0.08
handshakes were exchanged. How many were at
the meeting? 27. Eight times the sum of the digits of a certain
a. 22 b. 10 c. 12 d. 45 two-digit number exceeds the number by 19. The
tens digit is 3 more than the units digit. Find the
19. A real state agent has 8 master keys to open number.
several new homes. Only 1 master key will open a. 74 b. 85 c. 52 d. 96
any given house. If 40% of these homes are usually
left unlocked, what is the probability that the real 28. There are 10 points in a plane. No three of these
state agent can get into specific home if the agent points are in a straight line, except 4 points which
selects 3 master keys at random before leaving the are all in the same straight line. How many straight
office? lines can be formed by joining the
a. 3/4 b. 1/2 c. 3/8 d. 5/8 10 points?
a. 46 b. 45 c. 39 d. 40
20. If John can type a paper in 5 hours and together he
and Jim can type it in 2 hours, how long would it 29. Find the 8th term and the sum of the first eight
take Jim to type the same paper alone? terms of the sequence 4,8,16,...
a. 3.33 b. 6.33 c. 6.67 d. 3.67 a. 564, 1230 b. 512, 1020 c. 230, 785
d. None of these
21. In throwing a pair of dice, what is the possible
outcome of getting 10? 2
x  15
a. 1/18 b. 1/12 c. 1/36 d. 5/36 30. Simplify
2 2 
x  3   x  3 
 
22. Three cards are drawn from a pack of 52 cards. 1 2 x1
Determine the probability that no two are of the a.  
2 x  3  x  3  2 2  x 2  3 
same suit.  
a. 11/850 b. 22/425 c. 169/425 d. 1/5525
1 2 x1
b.  
x  3  x  3  2 2  x 2  3 
23. Find three numbers in a geometric sequence whose  
sum is 26 and whose product is 216.
1 2 x1
a. 1, 5, 20 b. 2, 8, 14 c. 2, 6, 18 d. None of c.  
these 2 x  3  x  3  2 2  x 2  3 
 
1 2 x1
24. In 4 years Cranston's age will be the same as d.  
Terrill's age now. In 2 years, Terrill will be twice as x  3  x  3  2 2  x 2  3 
 
old as Cranston. How old is Cranston now?
a. 6 b. 2 c. 8 d. 4

25. A and B alternately toss a coin. The first one to turn

up a head wins. If no more than five tosses each
are allowed for a single game. What are the odds
against A’s lossing if she goes first?
a. 7:9 b. 9:7 c. 21:11 d. 11:21

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