1. A square has how many sides? 4
2. How much is 2 plus 2? 4
3. A rose is a what? A flower
4. What is the best explanation of how a smooth round
... [Show More] stone became smooth?
5. If you place bean seeds between moist paper towels and watch the stem leaves appear you will see a demonstration of?
6. Any astronomical body that revolves around a larger body is called?
7. In chemistry, to be classified as an organic sub- stance, a substance must contain?
It was in a stream for a long time
germination
satellite carbon atoms
8. What element does not contain any neutrons? Hydrogen
9. What is the symbol for hydroxyl ion? OH-
10. A perpetual-motion machine can never be built be- cause it is not possible to eliminate what?
11. The chemical formula of a compound describes the elements the compound contains and the...
12. When scientists measures a liquids resistance to flow, they are measuring the liquids...
Clasticity
the ratio of ele- ments in a com- pound
Viscosity
13. The tympanic membranes are also known as the... Ear drums
14. When sodium atoms form sodium ions they: lose electrons
15. Choking is prevented by the...? epiglottis covering the voice box
16. Which of the following actions produce & chemical change?
Adding salt to the hot water
17. Which of the following is a non-renewable resource? Copper
18. What are the 2 main gases that make up stars? Hydrogen and he-
lium
19. A radar is designed to report the track of an aircraft every second. If this radar reports 30 tracks in one minute, what percentage of the time did the radar track the aircraft?
20. Jerry walked a dog from 6:40am to 7:30pm one day. If he was paid at the rate of 6$ per hour, how much did he earn that day?
21. A women is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office twice the area of her current office. If the perimeter of her current office is 88 feet, how many square feet is the new office?
22. If the perimeter of a square garden is 84 feet, what is the area of the garden?
23. How many feet of chain fence are necessary to en- close a dog pen that is square and has an area of 64sqft
24. The pet store had 6 puppies selling for $104 each and 12 kittens selling for $24 each. Today, only 2 puppies and 8 kittens we're left. In dollar terms, what was the ratio of sales of puppies and kittens?
25. The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of it's cost at a supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at a supermarket?
50%
$5.00
176 sq ft
441sqft 32
13 to 3
$3.60
26. A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, 1/2 hour
and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level ground. If it
goes 120 mph downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land?
27. Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, 16 units
with each side measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5 units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box?
28. Each August, a restaurant's rent is adjusted to the cost of living index. The rent has been 1,550 a month, and the cost of living index for this August was 3.7%. What is the new rent per month?
29. There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and randomly takes one marble. What is the probability pf that child getting a green marble?
30. Before being painted, a concrete play area was marked off into squares and then into triangles. For the square shown, what is the area of the triangular part labeled XYZ?
31. if the population of a certain city increased 25% in 2 years, the new population was what percent of the old?
$1,607.35
.66
32sqft
125%
32. a printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. 3,000
a second press can print 15,000 copies in 60 minutes. how many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press?
33. Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If Ian received 125,000, and Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive?
7/8
34. Small most nearly means a little
35. Prestige most nearly means status
36. we will long remember our perilous journey hazardous
37. Inept most nearly means silly
38. Oppressive most nearly means painful
39. "Complexity" most nearly means intricacy
40. Nurture most nearly means cultivate
41. void most nearly means empty
42. Fervently most nearly means passionately
43. Devout most nearly means pious
44. Erratically most nearly means irregularly
45. sustain most nearly means tolerate
46. They "consoled" each other after the accident. solaced
47. the cashier negated the charge of the item nullified
48. crass most nearly means crude
49. Peruse most nearly means study
50. the lens of the eye focuses light rays as they en- ter the eye. muscles around the lens react to light and change the shape of the lens by expanding or
contracting. certain diseases or injury to the lens of the eye can result in blurry vision. according to the paragraph,the lens of the eye is used to
51. Your heart's mitral valve does an awfully big job. Letting blood from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle without losing a drop is one of the toughest tasks in the circulatory system. In fact, if the
focus light
convince the read- ers of the stress on the mitral valve
system was suddenly opened at that point the force of the valve closing with send blood 5 feet into the air In this passage the author's purpose is to?
52. riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to vis-
it america's largest national park--wrangell-st.elias-- 13 million acres of scenic beauty. copper first drew
copper drew prospectors, cop- per ran out,
prospectors to this part of alaska. from 1911 to 1938, town abandoned,
the kennicott mine produced 200 million tons of it. now a mecca for tourists, the town of kennicott
was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out. which of the following illustrates the correct se- quence of events?
53. Physicists seek out those features of nature that are simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of finding answers as it is ask- ing the right questions. The trick is keeping the ques- tions simple and sticking to universal phenomena. Simple questions can be answered unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by logical thinking. which of the following questions is most clearly an example of the kind discussed in the paragraph?
54. An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune system malfunctions and mar- shals up an army of antibodies to fight these sub- stances. For many allergies, this malfunction causes a large amount of histamine to flood into the blood- stream. It is overabundance of histamine that caus- es allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing. the passage states all of the following about allergies except
55. a period of time is usually measured by comparing it with another period of time.for example, a year on mercury is equal to 88 earth days. a year on uranus is approximately 348 mercury years. according to the
tourists attraction
how fast do stones of a particular size fall?
medical science does not fully un- derstand why the body has an aller- gic reaction to cer- tain substances
calendar-based
passage, the way time is usually measured shows that the time is
56. weather radar is a great help to pilots in detecting thunderstorms. however, pilots must be aware that radar does not reliably detect hail. radar operates by transmitting a pulse of radio energy and receiving the pulse again after it is reflected by a target. large rain- drops, the kind found in intense thunderstorms, are the best radar reflectors and will show up as intense targets on the screen. hail is somewhat porous and has an uneven structure; it tends to absorb or scat- ter the radar pulse rather than reflect it back to the antenna. according to the paragraph, weather radar does not reliably. detect hail because of
57. according to mark twain, october is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks. others in- clude july, january, september, april, november, may, march,june, december, august, and february. what was mark twain's point?
58. Physical sound energy is transmitted through the external ear ( the pinna ) and the middle ear to the inner ear, where it creates pressure waves in the fluid of the cochlea. there, hairs on the organ of corti are moved by the pressure waves. the movement of the hairs starts the process by which nerve impulses are generated. where is the organ of corti located?
59. An analysis of the mandatory oil quota program shows that separate quotas were established for crude oil and for petroleum products. Petroleum products were divided into light products mostly gasoline jet fuel and desolate and heavy or residual fuel oil products. The quota for crude oil imports was set at approximately 10% of crude oil consumption the passage implies which of the following about the oil quota program?
its penetrable sur- face
october is an especially bad month for specu- lating in stocks
in the inner ear
the quota for resid- ual fuel oil prod- ucts was the same as for crude oil products
60. the women's flying training detachment was the brainchild of jacqueline cochran, the famous flyer. because of the overwhelming demand for qualified men to fly in combat during world war 2, she was able to persuade the army to train women pilots to ferry military aircraft from manufractures to embarkation points for later shipment overseas. the author implies that the primary motivation for establishing a training program for women pilots during world war 2 was the
unavailability of qualified male pi- lots
61. 4x+12=0 -3
62. what is 5x times (3x^2-5)? 15x^3-25x
63. what is the area of a parallelogram if its length is x+4 and its height is x+3?
x^2+7x+12
64. Simplify 3/5x+x 8/5x
65. Graphs of the following equations are straight lines except?
66. the hypotnuse of a right triangle has a length of 14 units and a side that is 9 units long. which equation can be used to find the length of the remaining side?
y=x^2+3 x^2=14^2+9^2
67. the factors of 2x^2+xy-3y^2 are (2x+3y)(x-y)
68. what is the area of a triangle with a base of 8 feet and a height of 4 feet?
16 square feet
69. the reciprocal of 3-1/5 is 5/16
70. If 4/3x3/4=5k, then k=? 1/5
71. what does the abbreviation AC stand for? alternating current
72. in making permanent electronic connections, use soldering iron
73. open
When current flow is interrupted by a blown fuse, the circuit becomes?
74. a standard multimeter does NOT measure frequency
75. this is a symbol for a transformer
76. utility company power lines carry what kind of cur- rent?
alternating
77. when measuring resistance with an ohmmeter, Disconnect power
78. in this schematic, the total resistance is 100ohms
79. electrical current flowing from one component to the next is an example of what kind of circuit?
80. When wire conductors are coated with solder, the process is called?
81. in order to make an electric current flow, it is neces- sary to have
82. a device that converts sound waves to electric cur- rent is a
open tinning
an ammeter transistor
83. Wires are joined together with solder to ensure Maximum voltage
84. which of the following can NOT be used to store an electrical charge?
85. which of the following is a type of resistance in an AC transformer circuit?
fuse impedance
86. the type of electricity used to power a car radio is typically
87. the most commonly used fuel for running automobile engines are
88. which of the following is NOT part of a car's drive train?
DC
gasoline transmission
89. Which engine component stores oil for lubrication? oil pan
90. the catalytic converter is part of what system? Emission control
system
91. How many crankshafts are there in a V-8 automobile 8
engine?
92. The engine flywheel bolts to the? crankshaft
93. What kind of wrench should be used to tighten en- gine components such as a manifolds and cylinder heads?
torque
94. the function of the master cylinder is to Apply hydraulic
pressure to the wheel cylinders
95. which of the following part of a conventional distrib- utor?
rotor
96. Coolant flow through an engine is regulated by the ..? thermostat
97. Nails are usually driven into wood with hammers
98. which of the following uses a penny system to specify its size?
finishing nail
99. Taps and dies are tools to? Cut threads for nuts and bolts
100. which tool is used to bend large sections of sheet metal?
lathe
101. what is placed around a chimney to prevent leaks? flashing
102. this type of pattern on metal is made by a process called
103. Self-tapping screws are primarily used when fasten- ing objects to..?
knurling
sheet metal
104. Anchor bolts are used to hold the? Rebar to the con- crete
105. which of these does NOT make wood chips when it is used?
drill press
106. to properly turn wood stock, one should use a lathe
107. the best saw for accurately cutting 3 inches off the length of a 2 x 8 x 18-inch piece of lumber is a
108. Gear A is the driving gear. If all the teeth are shoot off of Gear B, which gears will turn?
109. a series of 4 gears (W,X,Y,Z) is driven by pulley V and a belt. if V turns in the direction shown, which gears will rotate clockwise?
110. a box sits on a smooth table. 3 strings are attached to the box, each having a weight of 10 Ibs. attached to the other end. the box will move in direction
radial arm sawt gears A and C Y and X
D
111. 60 pounds
4 weights are tied together and hung from the ceil- ing. what will be the tension in the cord at the point labeled X?
112. the illustration shows a water tank that is made of wood planks and reinforced metal hoops. why are the hoops closer together near the bottom of the tank?
113. Spaces are placed between slabs of concrete in city sidewalks to?
the water pressure pushing against the sides of the tank is greater near the bottom
allow for expan- sion and contrac- tion
114. is it true that frictional forces... only operate in vertical directions
115. This drive pulley always turn Faster than pulley A or C but not pul- ley B
116. a belt passes over a drum and its ends are connected to springs. if the drum rotates in the direction shown and there is friction between the drum and the belt, then
117. a spring will compress 1 inch for every 50 pounds of force that is applied to it. how much force is needed to compress the same spring 10 inches?
spring 1 will
get shorter, and spring 2 longer
500 Ibs
118. As part A moves to the left, gear C will turn C. first in direction
1 and then in di- rection 2
119. a spring is compressed against a wall by a wooden block that has a force applied to it. if the force is removed from the block,
the block of wood will move to the right
120. the illustration shows an example of... an inclined plane
121. what would you tell the person who is trying to loosen the rusty nut with the wrench?
move your hand farther from the nut [Show Less]