1.   Sarah must maintain a balance of at least $500 in her checking account to avoid finance charges. If her current balance is $794, write an inequality to determine how many times she can withdraw $25 for shopping without paying finance charges.
    A. 25w 106 B. 25w 294
    C. 25w 794 D. 25w 500
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  2.   Write an inequality for the sentence three times a number is less than 45.
    A. 3x < 45 B. 3 + x < 45
    C. 3x > 45 D. 3x 45
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  3.   Use elimination to solve the system of equations shown below.
2x - 4y = -5
3x + 4y = -15
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  4.   The graph of y = -4x2 - 1 is _____.
    A. a parabola B. a circle
    C. None of these is correct. D. a straight line
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  5.   What is the equation of the graph shown?
   
    A. f(x) = -2x2 + 2x + 1
    B. f(x) = 2x2 + 2x + 1
    C. f(x) = -2x2 + 2x - 1
    D. f(x) = 2x2 - 2x + 1
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  6.   Solve .
    A. 0 B. -2
    C. 4 D. 1 or 4
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  7.   Find the product of (4n + 5) and (2n + 3).
    A. 6n2 + 18n + 8
    B. 6n2 + 20n + 12
    C. 8n2 + 22n - 15
    D. 8n2 + 22n + 15
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  8.   Find the equation that has direct variation.
    A. y = 5x + 1.3 B. y = 4x
    C. y = –3x – 1 D. y = 0.8x + 9
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  9.   Michael just got a job mowing his elderly neighbor's lawn paying him $10 each week. Draw a graph showing the amount he receives is increasing very rapidly. Suppose you graph the time in weeks on the horizontal axis and the amount Michael receives on the vertical axis.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  10.   What type of relationship does the equation have if its first differences are constant?
    A. quadratic B. linear
    C. cubic D. constant
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  11.   How many counterexamples are needed to prove a conjecture wrong?
    A. 1 B. 4
    C. 2 D. 3
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  12.   Tell whether the statement is sometimes true, always true, or never true for positive values of n. If it is sometimes true, state for what value it is true.
4n = 6,561.
    A. always true B. never true
    C. sometimes true, n = 8 D. sometimes true, n = 7
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  13.   Use the following table to find the amount of medicine remaining in the bloodstream after n hours.
   
    A. 500 × 0.85n B. 0.85n
    C. 425 × 0.85n D. 0.85 × 500n
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  14.   Find a solution to the equation using backtracking.
    A. c = 2 B. c = –1
    C. c = –14 D. c = 8
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  15.   Julian said, ''I'm thinking of a number. When I add 3 to my number, multiply the sum by 12, divide the product by 8, and subtract the result by 7, I get 11. What is the number I'm thinking of?''
    A. 10 B. 7
    C. 9 D. 8
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  16.   A ball is launched straight up from ground level modeling the equation h = 52t – 10t2, where h stands for height in meters and t stands for time. On its way up, it reached a particular height at 1 second. On its way down, it again reached the same height. At approximately what time did it reach that height the second time?
    A. 2.0 seconds B. 4.2 seconds
    C. 3.5 seconds D. 5.2 seconds
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  17.   Use you calculator's Table feature to approximate the solutions to the nearest hundredth.
4x(x + 2) = 12
    A. x = –1, x = –4 B. x = 1, x = –3
    C. x = 0, x = –4 D. x = 2, x = –2
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  18.   Translate the figure using the given vector.
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  19.   Find the correct representation of a triangle reflected over line l, and then reflected over line m.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  20.   Solve the equation.
    A. z = –5 B. z = 2
    C. z = –2 D. z = 5
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