Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Ngedi collects state quarters. She has 17 Virginia quarters. The number of these
quarters minted in Denver is 2 more than 4 times the number of those minted in Philadelphia. How many
were minted in Denver?
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What is the solution of  ?
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3.
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What is the solution of  ?
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4.
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What is y equal to if  is solved for y?
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5.
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Twenty more than five times the measure of an angle is 60 degrees. What is the
measure of the angle?
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6.
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What is the solution of  ?
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Duane was solving the equation  . In order to make the problem easier, he
multiplied the entire equation by 6 and obtained  . What was his mistake? a. | He did not multiply the 1 by 6. | b. | Two-thirds times 6 is not
4. | c. | He should not have multiplied the   by 6. | d. | There was no
mistake. |
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What is y equal to if  is solved for y?
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Max drove 132 miles from Lynchburg to Wytheville. If the trip took him 3 hours,
what was his average speed?
a. | 66 mph | c. | 44 mph | b. | 50 mph | d. | 36 mph |
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Alberto works at a music store. If he works 15 hours each week at $6.00 per
hour, how much does he make in a week?
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What is the solution of  ?
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12.
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What is the solution of  ?
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13.
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Parris has a piggy bank containing $7.60 in dimes and nickels. If there are 96
coins in the piggy bank, how many of these coins are dimes?
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14.
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The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 117. What is the least of the three
integers?
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15.
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What is the value of x in the equation  ? a. | 4 | c. |  | b. | 6 | d. | 15 |
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Jim and Brad are driving in opposite directions from the same starting point on
Skyline Drive, one at 30 miles per hour, the other at 20 miles per hour. How many hours will it take
before they are 100 miles apart?
a. |  h | c. | 8 h | b. | 2
h | d. | 10
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Hector has 60 feet of fencing to enclose his vegetable garden. If he wants the
garden to be 6 feet longer than it is wide, how many feet wide can the garden be?
a. | 60 ft | c. | 18 ft | b. | 12 ft | d. | 27 ft |
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Jonah bought 3 equally priced sweatshirts. He gave the clerk a $100 bill and
received $22.03 back in change. How much did each sweatshirt cost?
a. | $25.99 | c. | $29.82 | b. | $27.97 | d. | $33.33 |
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Morgan is thinking of a number. She challenges her friend Melissa to find an
inequality for the number from these clues. If 3 times the number is decreased by 7, the result is at
least 17. Which of these inequalities represents the number n?
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20.
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A total of 70,000 soldiers died in the Petersburg Campaign of the Civil War.
There were 14,000 fewer Confederate casualties than Union casualties. How many Confederate casualties
were there in this campaign?
a. | 28,000 | c. | 42,000 | b. | 35,000 | d. | 48,000 |
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The formula for the area of a triangle is  . What is this formula
solved for b?
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