1.
54 - 6 ÷ 2 + 6 = ?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
2.
The lowest temperature on a winter morning was -8°F. Later that same day the temperature reached a high of 24°F. By how many degrees Fahrenheit did the temperature increase?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
3.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
4.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
5.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
6.
Four students about to purchase concert tickets for $18.50 for each ticket discover that they may purchase a block of 5 tickets for $80.00. How much would each of the 4 save if they can get a fifth person to join them and the 5 people equally divide the price of
the 5-ticket block?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
7.
In scientific notation, 20,000 + 3,400,000 = ?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
8.
Saying that 4 < < 9 is equivalent to saying what about x ?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
9.
What value of x solves the following proportion?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
10.
On a math test, 12 students earned an A. This number is exactly 25% of the total number of students in the class. How many students are in the class?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
11.
If the total cost of x apples is b cents, what is a general formula for the cost, in cents, of y apples?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
12.
This year, 75% of the graduating class of Harriet Tubman High School had taken atleast 8 math courses. Of the remaining class members, 60% had taken 6 or 7 math courses. What percent of the graduating class had taken fewer than 6 math courses?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
13.
Adam tried to compute the average of his 7 test scores. He mistakenly divided the correct sum of all of his test scores by 6, which yielded 84. What is Adam’s correct average test score?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
14.
A total of 50 juniors and seniors were given a mathematics test. The 35 juniors attained an average score of 80 while the 15 seniors attained an average of 70. What was the average score for all 50 students who took the test?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
15.
If x = –3, what is the value of ?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
16.
Doctors use the term maximum heart rate (MHR) when referring to the quantity found by starting with 220 beats per minute and subtracting 1 beat per minute for each year of a person’s age. Doctors recommend exercising 3 or 4 times each week for at least
20 minutes with your heart rate increased from its resting heart rate (RHR) to its
training heart rate (THR), where
THR = RHR + .65(MHR – RHR)
Which of the following is closest to the THR of a 43-year-old person who's RHR is
54 beats per minute?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
17.
When getting into shape by exercising, the subject’s maximum recommended number
of heartbeats per minute (h) can be determined by subtracting the subject’s age (a)
from 220 and then taking 75% of that value. This relation is expressed by which of the
following formulas?
A. 
H = .75(220 – a)
h = .75(220) – a
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
18.
An airplane flew for 8 hours at an airspeed of x miles per hour (mph), and for 7 more hours at 325 mph. If the average airspeed for the entire flight was 350 mph, which of the following equations could be used to find x?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
19.
Which of the following is equivalent to
3a + 4b – (–6a – 3b) ?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
20.
and + ?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
21.
What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
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What Methods Do Andean Farmers Use?
Public debate around climate change and its effects on agriculture tends to focus
on the large-scale industrial farms of the North. Farmers who work on a small scale and
use traditional methods have largely been ignored. However, as the world slowly comes
to terms with the threat of climate change, Native farming traditions will warrant greater
attention.
In the industrial model of agriculture, one or two crop varieties are grown over
vast areas. Instead of trying to use local resources of soil and water optimally and
sustainably, the natural environment is all but ignored and uniform growing conditions
are fabricated through large-scale irrigation and the intensive use of artificial fertilizers
and pesticides. For example, a handful of basically similar potato varieties, all of which
require nearly identical soil conditions, temperature, rainfall, and growing seasons,
account for almost all global production. When these global crops are no longer suited to
the environment in which they are grown, when their resistance to disease and pests
begins to fail, or the climate itself changes, the best way to rejuvenate the breeding stock
will be to introduce new genetic material from the vast diversity of crop varieties still
maintained by indigenous peoples.
In contrast to the industrial model, Andean potatoes and other Andean crops such
as squash and beans grown by Quechuan farmers exhibit extraordinary genetic diversity,
driven by the need to adapt crops to the extraordinary climatic diversity of the region.
Along the two axes of latitude and altitude, the Andes encompasses fully two-thirds of all
possible combinations of climate and geography found on Earth. The Andean potato has
been adapted to every environment except the depth of the rainforest or the frozen peaks
of the mountains. Today, facing the likelihood of major disruptions to the climatic
conditions for agriculture worldwide, indigenous farmers provide a dramatic example of
crop adaptation in an increasingly extreme environment. More importantly, Native
farmers have also safeguarded the crop diversity essential for future adaptations.
A. 
Attention to Native farming practices will lead to greater awareness of the threat of
climate change.
B. 
Popularity of small-scale farming in the North will lead to greater attention to
Native farming practices.
C. 
Global demand for food will lead to increasing efficiency of large-scale farming in
the North.
D. 
It will be worthwhile to include a greater focus on Native farming practices in
public discussions concerning the threat of climate change.
E. 
Despite potential climate change, public debate will have little effect on industrial
farming practices.
22.
In the second paragraph, the information about potato-growing practices in the
the industrial model of agriculture serves to:
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What Methods Do Andean Farmers Use?
Public debate around climate change and its effects on agriculture tends to focus
on the large-scale industrial farms of the North. Farmers who work on a small scale and
use traditional methods have largely been ignored. However, as the world slowly comes
to terms with the threat of climate change, Native farming traditions will warrant greater
attention.
In the industrial model of agriculture, one or two crop varieties are grown over
vast areas. Instead of trying to use local resources of soil and water optimally and
sustainably, the natural environment is all but ignored and uniform growing conditions
are fabricated through large-scale irrigation and the intensive use of artificial fertilizers
and pesticides. For example, a handful of basically similar potato varieties, all of which
require nearly identical soil conditions, temperature, rainfall, and growing seasons,
account for almost all global production. When these global crops are no longer suited to
the environment in which they are grown, when their resistance to disease and pests
begins to fail, or the climate itself changes, the best way to rejuvenate the breeding stock
will be to introduce new genetic material from the vast diversity of crop varieties still
maintained by indigenous peoples.
In contrast to the industrial model, Andean potatoes and other Andean crops such
as squash and beans grown by Quechuan farmers exhibit extraordinary genetic diversity,
driven by the need to adapt crops to the extraordinary climatic diversity of the region.
Along the two axes of latitude and altitude, the Andes encompasses fully two-thirds of all
possible combinations of climate and geography found on Earth. The Andean potato has
been adapted to every environment except the depth of the rainforest or the frozen peaks
of the mountains. Today, facing the likelihood of major disruptions to the climatic
conditions for agriculture worldwide, indigenous farmers provide a dramatic example of
crop adaptation in an increasingly extreme environment. More importantly, Native
farmers have also safeguarded the crop diversity essential for future adaptations.
A. 
Give an example of a potential problem that Native farming practices could help to
alleviate.
B. 
Show the likely global consequences of a possible food shortage caused by
industrial farming practices.
C. 
Show how pests and disease are less effectively resisted by crops grown in the
industrial farming model.
D. 
It will be worthwhile to include a greater focus on Native farming practices in
give an example of how public debate has had little effect on the agricultural
practices of the North.
E. 
Give an example of how Native farming practices and industrial farming practices
derive from different climatic conditions.
23.
The passage states that which of the following is true of the small number of potato
varieties that account for most of the potatoes produced on Earth currently?
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What Methods Do Andean Farmers Use?
Public debate around climate change and its effects on agriculture tend to focus
on the large-scale industrial farms of the North. Farmers who work on a small scale and
use traditional methods have largely been ignored. However, as the world slowly comes
to terms with the threat of climate change, Native farming traditions will warrant greater
attention.
In the industrial model of agriculture, one or two crop varieties are grown over
vast areas. Instead of trying to use local resources of soil and water optimally and
sustainably, the natural environment is all but ignored and uniform growing conditions
are fabricated through large-scale irrigation and the intensive use of artificial fertilizers
and pesticides. For example, a handful of basically similar potato varieties, all of which
require nearly identical soil conditions, temperature, rainfall, and growing seasons,
account for almost all global production. When these global crops are no longer suited to
the environment in which they are grown, when their resistance to disease and pests
begins to fail, or the climate itself changes, the best way to rejuvenate the breeding stock
will be to introduce new genetic material from the vast diversity of crop varieties still
maintained by indigenous peoples.
In contrast to the industrial model, Andean potatoes and other Andean crops such
as squash and beans grown by Quechuan farmers exhibit extraordinary genetic diversity,
driven by the need to adapt crops to the extraordinary climatic diversity of the region.
Along the two axes of latitude and altitude, the Andes encompasses fully two-thirds of all
possible combinations of climate and geography found on Earth. The Andean potato has
been adapted to every environment except the depth of the rainforest or the frozen peaks
of the mountains. Today, facing the likelihood of major disruptions to the climatic
conditions for agriculture worldwide, indigenous farmers provide a dramatic example of
crop adaptation in an increasingly extreme environment. More importantly, Native
farmers have also safeguarded the crop diversity essential for future adaptations.
A. 
They are grown in the Andean region.
B. 
They all require very similar soil and climate conditions.
C. 
They are no longer suited to their environment.
D. 
They are based on genetic material from crops developed by indigenous peoples.
E. 
They make optimal use of available soil and water resources.
24.
As it is used in the passage, the underlined word fabricated most nearly means:
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What Methods Do Andean Farmers Use?
Public debate around climate change and its effects on agriculture tends to focus
on the large-scale industrial farms of the North. Farmers who work on a small scale and
use traditional methods have largely been ignored. However, as the world slowly comes
to terms with the threat of climate change, Native farming traditions will warrant greater
attention.
In the industrial model of agriculture, one or two crop varieties are grown over
vast areas. Instead of trying to use local resources of soil and water optimally and
sustainably, the natural environment is all but ignored, and uniform growing conditions
are fabricated through large-scale irrigation and the intensive use of artificial fertilizers
and pesticides. For example, a handful of basically similar potato varieties, all of which
require nearly identical soil conditions, temperature, rainfall, and growing seasons,
account for almost all global production. When these global crops are no longer suited to
the environment in which they are grown, when their resistance to disease and pests
begins to fail, or the climate itself changes, the best way to rejuvenate the breeding stock
will be to introduce new genetic material from the vast diversity of crop varieties still
maintained by indigenous peoples.
In contrast to the industrial model, Andean potatoes and other Andean crops such
as squash and beans grown by Quechuan farmers exhibit extraordinary genetic diversity,
driven by the need to adapt crops to the extraordinary climatic diversity of the region.
Along the two axes of latitude and altitude, the Andes encompasses fully two-thirds of all
possible combinations of climate and geography found on Earth. The Andean potato has
been adapted to every environment except the depth of the rainforest or the frozen peaks
of the mountains. Today, facing the likelihood of major disruptions to the climatic
conditions for agriculture worldwide, indigenous farmers provide a dramatic example of
crop adaptation in an increasingly extreme environment. More importantly, Native
farmers have also safeguarded the crop diversity essential for future adaptations.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
25.
Which of the following does the author use as a metaphor for the culture in which
she was born?
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In the 1930s, why did author Zora Neale Hurston choose Eatonville,
Florida, to be the first source for her collection of folklore?
I was glad when somebody told me, “You may go and collect Negro folklore.” In a
way, it would not be a new experience for me. When I pitched headforemost into the world
I landed in the crib of Negroism. It was fitting me like a tight chemise. I couldn't see it for
wearing it. It was only when I was off in college, away from my native surroundings, that I
could standoff and look at my garment. Then I had to have the spy-glass of anthropology to
look through.
I was asked where I wanted to work and I said, “Florida. It’s a place that draws
people—Negroes from every Southern state and some from the North and West.” So I
knew that it was possible for me to get a cross section of the Negro South in one state. And
then I realized that I felt new myself, so it looked sensible for me to choose familiar ground.
I started in Eatonville, Florida, because I knew that the town was full of material and
that I could get it without causing any hurt or harm. As early as I could remember, it was
the habit of the men particularly to gather on the store porch in the evenings and swap
stories. Even the women would stop and break a breath with them at times. As a child
when I was sent down to the store, I'd drag out my leaving to hear more.
Folklore is not as easy to collect as it sounds. The ideal source is where there are the
fewest outside influences, but these people are reluctant at times to reveal that which the
soul lives by. I knew that even I would have some hindrance among strangers. But here in
Eatonville I knew everybody was going to help me.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E.