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Suppose you deposit $1500 into an account that pays 5% interest. How much money would you have in the acount after 10 years? |
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$7500 |
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$750 |
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$1575 |
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$2250 |
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One hundred people who enter a restaurant are asked to identify their favorite food. This sample is _____. |
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not a good sample because you need to use at least 2000 people to have a good survey |
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a good sample because there are a large number of people surveyed |
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not a good sample because only people who eat at this particular restaurant are surveyed |
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a good sample because the people are randomly chosen |
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The chart shows the number of hits per game that Soren had in one season playing Babe Ruth baseball. Select the false statement from the choices below. |
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Soren never had more than 6 hits in one game. |
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Soren had a total of 40 hits. |
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Soren had 0 hits 3 times during the season. |
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Soren had 2 hits most often during a game. |
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The graphs of X(1, 1), Y(2, 6), and Z(7, 5) are connected with line segments to form a triangle. Then each y-coordinate is multiplied by -1 and a new triangle is drawn. In which quadrant does the new triangle lie? |
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Quadrant III |
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Quadrant II |
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Quadrant I |
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Quadrant IV |
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Solve the equation 14 = 7 + x. |
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-21 |
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2 |
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-7 |
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7 |
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When you multiply 5 · (-1.4), you can think of that as ______. |
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(-1.4) · (-1.4) · (-1.4) · (-1.4) · (-1.4) |
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5 · (-1.4) · 2 |
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(-1.4) + (-1.4) + (-1.4) + (-1.4) + (-1.4) |
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(-1.4) - (-1.4) - (-1.4) - (-1.4) - (-1.4) |
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Solve the equation 12 + 2.5x = -16. |
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11.2 |
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-11.2 |
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1.6 |
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-1.6 |
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On a map, the scale is 1 inch = 0.75 miles. If the distance between two landmarks on the map is 0.5 inches, what is the actual distance in miles? |
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1.5 miles |
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0.375 miles |
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1.25 miles |
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3 miles |
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In mathematics, a relation is _______. |
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a set of ordered pairs in which every x-coordinate equals every y-coordinate |
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a set of ordered pairs with the same y-coordinates |
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a set of ordered pairs |
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a set of ordered pairs with the same x-ccordinates |
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Solve the equation 10x - 5y = 15 if the domain is {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2}. |
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{(-2, -7), (-1, -5), (0, -3), (1, -1), (2, 1)} |
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{(-2, 2), (-1, 1), (0, 0), (1, 2), (2, 1)} |
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{(2, -1), (-1, 1), (0, 3), (1, 5), (2, 7)} |
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{(-2, -2), (-1, -1), (0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 2)} |
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The rule for negative exponents states that Which statement is not a correct use of this rule? |
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10-1 = 1 |
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Simplify –10x + (-4x). |
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14x |
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6x |
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-14x |
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-6x |
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Choose the solution of 6x + 1 = 7 if the replacement set is {-1, 0, 1, 2}. |
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-1 |
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1 |
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2 |
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0 |
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Solve the equation 10 = . |
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x = 80 |
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x = -1 |
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x = -80 |
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x = 1 |
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Joseph and Pedro are selling chocolate bars at the concession stand at a school football game. There are two types of chocolate bars, with nuts and without. They sell 36 of the ones with nuts and 54 of the ones without and make a total of $44.10. If the chocolate bars with nuts cost ten cents more than the ones without, how much did the chocolate bars with nuts cost? |
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$0.49 |
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$0.59 |
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$0.55 |
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$0.45 |
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Which is true of the equation y = cx where c is a constant? |
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The graph passes through the origin. |
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The graph will be increasing. |
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The graph will be decreasing. |
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The graph will always cross the x-axis at exactly one point. |
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What would the slope of have to be for JKLM to be a trapezoid? |
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Estimate the square root . |
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196 |
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13 |
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14 |
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169 |
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Chris is making a square patio of square stones that each measure 1 ft2. If each stone costs two dollars and he can spend no more than $956.00, how long can the patio be? |
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31 ft |
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21 ft |
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22 ft |
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30 ft |
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To fertilize the crops on the farm he works at, Omari has to use no less than the fertilizer recommended for 262 yd2 of land. If the field has the same width and length, that are a whole number of yards long, how long is the field? |
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19 yd |
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18 yd |
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16 yd |
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17 yd |
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