SAT data analysis and statistics part 3

Mastering Advanced Math: SAT Test - part 3

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1. 


What percent of the people surveyed saw either an action or a science fiction movie?
Refer to the graph above that summarizes a survey of a
group of 250 people who were randomly selected when leaving a multiplex movie theater and asked what type of movie they had seen.

2. 

Two health clubs offer different membership plans. The accompanying graph represents the total yearly cost of belonging to Club A and Club B for one year. The yearly cost includes a membership fee plus a fixed monthly charge. By what amount does the monthly charge for Club A exceed the monthly charge for Club B?

3. 


The table above summarizes the number of people by age group who were included in a survey of driving habits. Which of the following
statements is true?

4. 

The average of r and s is 7.5, and the average of r, s and t is 11. What
is the value of t?

5. 


The table above shows the annual salaries for the 24 members of a professional sports team in terms of millions of dollars.
The team signs an additional player to a contract with an annual salary of 7.5 million dollars per year, which brings the sum of the salaries of the 25 players to 69 million dollars. By what amount, in dollars, does the mean increase?

6. 


The greatest percent of increase in the jogger’s heart rate occurred over
what interval of time, in minutes? Refer to the graph above which shows the heart rate, in beats per minute, of a jogger during a 4-minute interval.

7. 

The yearly growth in the number of fast food restaurants in a certain
retail chain can be modeled by the function f(n) = 5 + 8n. According to
this model which statement is true?

8. 

If 2a + b = 7 and b + 2c = 23, what is the average of a, b, and c?

9. 

Susan received grades of 78, 93, 82, and 76 on four math exams. What
is the lowest score she can receive on her next math exam and have an
average of at least 85 on the five exams?

10. 

The average of a, b, c, d, and e is 28. If the average of a, c, and e is 24,
what is the average of b and d?

11. 

A certain population of insects starts at 16 and doubles every 6 days.
What is the population after 60 days?

12. 

The number of hours, H, needed to manufacture X computer monitors
is given by the function H = kX + q, where k and q are constants. If it
takes 270 hours to manufacture 100 computer monitors and 410 hours
to manufacture 160 computer monitors, how many minutes are
required to manufacture each additonal computer monitor?
write answer only in numbers

13. 


Which of the following statements is true about the data in the tables above?
I. The mean salaries for both companies are greater than $35,000.
II. The mean age of workers in Company 1 is greater than the mean
age of workers in Company 2.
III. The salary range in Company 2 is greater than the salary range in
Company 1.

14. 

Which of the accompanying tables that show how population is changing over time illustrate exponential decay?

15. 

Some banks charge a fee on savings accounts that are left inactive for
an extended period of time. The equation \(y = 5,000(0.98)^{x}\)
represents the value, y, of one account that was left inactive for a period of x
years. What is the y-intercept of this equation and what does it
represent?

16. 

Vanessa plans to invest $10,000 for 5 years at an annual interest rate of
6% compounded annually. Which equation could be used to determine
the profit, P, Vanessa earns from her initial investment?

17. 


The graph above shows how $250,000 is invested.
How much money is invested in municipal bonds?

18. 


Which of the following is the best approximation for the decrease in
the number of cars purchased per year between 2011 and 2014? refer to the graph above.

19. 

In order to compensate for a difficult midterm exam, Danielle’s
mathematics teacher adjusted each of the 25 students’ midterm exam
scores by replacing it by one-half of the original score increased by 50.
If the mean of the revised set of midterm scores is 82, what was the
mean of the original set of scores?

20. 

In a set of n data values, m represents the median. If each number in the
set is decreased by 3, which expression represents the median of the
revised set of data values?

21. 


A new fitness class was started at several fitness clubs owned by the same company. The scatterplot shows the total number of people attending the class during the first five months in which the class was offered. The line of
best fit is drawn.
For month 4, the predicted number of people attending the class was approximately what percent greater than the actual number of people attending the class?

22. 

If the average of x, y, and z is 12, what is the average of 3x, 3y, and 3z?

23. 


A new fitness class was started at several fitness clubs owned by the same company. The scatterplot shows the total number of people attending the class during the first five months in which the class was offered. The line of
best fit is drawn.
During the five-month period, the average increase in the number of people attending the class per month is closest to which of the following?

24. 


The percent increase in the number of students enrolled in advanced mathematics courses from 2010 to 2011 exceeded the percent increase from 2012 to 2013 by approximately what percent?

25. 


The partially completed table above describes the distribution of 200 subjects in a study involving eye color in which there were 4 times as many males with brown eyes as with blue eyes and 7 times as many females with brown eyes as with blue eyes. What percent of the subjects were either male with blue eyes or female with brown eyes?

26. 

If \( a_{n}\) represents the nth term of the sequence 54,18,6, ..., and \( a_{1}\)
represents the first term, then \( a_{n}\) =

27. 


The graph above represents a jogger’s speed during her 20-minute jog
around her neighborhood. Which statement best describes what the
jogger was doing during the 9 to 12 minute interval of her jog?

28. 


The scatterplot above shows the profit, by month, for a new company for the first year of operation. A line of best fit is also shown. Using this line, by what dollar amount did the profit in the 18th month exceed the profit in the 13th month?

29. 

The City Tunnel and Bridge Authority in a certain city estimates that
40,000 vehicles currently travel over a certain bridge per year but, due
to highway construction and changing traffic patterns, vehicle traffic
over the bridge will begin to decline by 12% every 5 years. Which of
the following expressions best represents the vehicle traffic projections
for this bridge n years from now?

30. 

On a test that has a normal distribution of scores, a score of 58 falls
two standard deviations below the mean, and a score of 85 is one
standard deviation above the mean. What is the mean score of this test?

31. 

The equation above represents the total monthly cost, C, in dollars of a
data plan offered by a cell phone company when the data usage in a
month exceeds a 1 gigabyte limit by d megabytes. According to the
model, what is the meaning of 0.05?

32. 

Given a starting population of 100 bacteria, the formula b(t) = 100(2^t)
can be used to determine the number of bacteria, b, after t periods of
time. If each time period is 15 minutes long, how many minutes will it
take for the population of bacteria to reach 51,200?
write answer only in numbers

33. 

Sasha invested $1,200 in a savings account at an annual interest rate of
1.6% compounded annually. She made no further deposits or
withdrawals. To the nearest dollar, how much more money did she
have in the account after 3 years than after 2 years?
write answer only in numbers

34. 

After a single sheet of paper is folded in half, there are two layers of
paper. The same sheet of paper is repeatedly folded in half. If function
f represents the number of layers of paper that results when the original
sheet of paper is folded a total of x times, then which equation could
represent this function?

35. 


From 2014 to 2015 the number of students enrolled in advanced mathematics courses increased by the same percent that student enrollment in advanced mathematics courses dropped from 2013 to 2014. What was the approximate number of students enrolled in advanced mathematics courses in 2015?

36. 


The graph above shows the average daily temperature during a particular week in January in a certain city. Which statement best describes the temperature data in the graph above?

37. 


Based on the cumulative histogram above, what percent of the total number of swimmers swam between 200 and 249 yards?

38. 

A man drove a car at an average rate of speed of 45 miles per hour for
the first 3 hours of a 7-hour car trip. If the average rate of speed for the
entire trip was 53 miles per hour, what was the average rate of speed in
miles per hour for the remaining part of the trip?

39. 


The table above shows the annual salaries for the 24 members of a professional sports team in terms of millions of dollars. 
If each player’s salary is increased by 10%, which of the following statistics does not increase by 10%?

40. 


Refer to the above table, which summarizes the results of a
survey of the student body of a high school about club membership in which each student enrolled in the high school enumerated the clubs in which they were members.

If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that the student is either a 9th grade student or belongs to 3 or more clubs?

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