GED Practice Test #3 (34 Questions - each question is worth 2.94 points)
1) Pickins community will be constructing fourteen identical rectangle gardens below. How many feet of fencing will they need?
1) 1,050 ft 2) 1,104 ft 3) 1,227 ft 4) 1,344 ft 5) 1,425 ft
2) The triangle below is a right triangle. If A = sixteen and twenty-five thousandths and C = twenty-two and two thousandths, what does B = ?
(1) 15 (2) 14 (3) 13 (4) 12 (5) 11
3) What is the 5th term in the sequence: 64, -32, 16, -8,…
(1) 12 (2) 8 (3) 4 (4) 2 (5) 1
4) 1% of what number is 1?
(1) 1 (2) 10 (3) 100 (4) .01 (5) .001
5) Seventy-two hundredths is seventy-two percent of what number?
(1) 1 (2) 10 (3) 100 (4) .01 (5) .001
6) The average weight of 4 students is shown in the table below is 205 lbs.
Which of the following is most likely the weight of Hanson?
(1) 176 ¼ (2) 182 ½ (3) 198 ¾ (4) 200 ¼ (5) 210 ½
Player Weight
Jack 198 ¾
Hanson Billy 220 George 225
32 ft Area = 512 sq ft
A C
B
7) Tansey is going to buy some expensive perfume at Macy’s for 18 ¾% off the regular price of $122. With a 6% sales tax, how much will she be paying for the perfume?
(1) $99.13 (2) $102.87 (3) $103.12 (4) $104.22 (5) $105.07
8) What is the area of the circle to the right?
(1) 13 300/301 sq units (2) 12 141/250 sq units (3) 11 127/133 sq units (4) 10 18/21 sq units (5) 9 3/8 sq units
9)
Mr. Nichols borrowed $3,200 from Comerica Bank. He paid $767.44 interest at 6 5/8% rate of interest. How long did it take him to pay his loan off?
(1) 3 years 1 month (2) 3 years 3 months (3) 3 years 5 months (4) 3 years 7 months (5) 3 years 11 months
10) (-4, -3) is in what quadrant of the coordinate plane?
(1) I (2) II (3) III (4) IV
(5) No answer given
The following diagram pertains to problems 11 – 12:
11) If b = 1 ½, what is the length of the larger triangle’s base?
(1) 3.9 (2) 3.7 (3) 3.6 (4) 3.5 (5) 3.4
12) Based on question #11, what is the perimeter of the smaller triangle?
(1) 3.9 (2) 3.7 (3) 3.6 (4) 3.5 (5) 3.4
13) Line AB is the diameter of the circle below. If the triangle’s perimeter is 62 in, side AC = 23 in, and side BC = 18 then what is the area of three of these circles?
(1) 1038.9 sq in (2) 940.2 sq in (3) 742.5 sq in (4) 444.8 sq in (5) 346.3 sq in
14) ½ A - ¼ A = 11 ¼ . Solve for A.
(1) 45 (2) 22 ½ (3) 11 ¼ (4) 4 (5) 2
15) What is the slope of the line 4x + 20y = 5 ? (1) 45
(2) 20 (3) 4 (4) -2 (5) -1/5
16) What is the slope of a line that passes through the points (4, 8), and (10, 17) ? (1) 2/3
(2) 3/2 (3) -2/5 (4) 1/8 (5) 2
17) Tom played five rounds of golf and shot an average score of 72. If he excluded the lowest score, however, his average for the other four rounds was 74. What was Tom's lowest score in the five rounds?
(1) 74 (2) 72 (3) 68 (4) 64 (5) 60
18) Write the following number in standard notation: 3.5 x 107 (1) 35,000,000
(2) 350,000 (3) 35,000 (4) 3,500 (5) 350
19) In an average week, Rick drives twice as many miles as Sally, who drives 50 more miles than Tammy. If Tammy drives 57 miles a week, how many miles a week does Rick drive?
(1) 290 (2) 268 (3) 247 (4) 225 (5) 214
20) In a certain college, the ratio of people over 20 to people less than the age of 20 is 4 to 5. If the population of the college over 20 is 3,820, what is the population of the college?
(1) 6,994 (2) 5,201 (3) 4,584 (4) 1.982 (5) 764
21) The slope of the following line is said to be which of the following?
(1) Positive (2) Negative (3) Zero (4) Undefined (5) Ratio
22) The symbol used to represent slope is which of the following?
(1) y (2) m (3) z (4) c (5) s
23) The slope of the following line is said to be which of the following?
(1) Positive (2) Negative (3) Zero (4) Undefined (5) Ratio
24) The slope of the following line is said to be which of the following?
(1) Positive (2) Negative (3) Zero (4) Undefined (5) Ratio
25) The slope of the following line is said to be which of the following?
(1) Positive (2) Negative (3) Zero (4) Undefined (5) Ratio
26) Which of the following is True about parallel lines?
(1) Two lines are parallel if there slopes are not equal and they have different y-intercepts (2) Two lines are not parallel if there slopes are equal and they have different y-intercepts (3) Two lines are parallel if there slopes are equal to one and they have different y-intercepts (4) Two lines are parallel if there slopes are equal and they have different y-intercepts (5) Two lines are parallel if there slopes are equal to zero and they have different y-intercepts
27) Which of the following is Not True about perpendicular lines?
(1) Perpendicular lines intersect each other at some point
(2) The point at which the two lines intersect forms four right angles (3) Perpendicular lines are positive reciprocals of each other (4) The right angles at the intersections each measure 90 degrees (5) No answer is given
28) Matt scored 8 more points than Ted in the basketball game, and their scores together made up a quarter of the team's total scoring, which was112. Which equation represents this scenario?
(1) 4(8 + x) = 112 (2) 4(2x + 8) = 112 (3) 112/4 = 8 + x (4) x = 112/(4 x 8) (5) x = 112/(4 x 8) 29) Solve: (3x + 9)/2 = 9
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5 (5) 6
30) Simplify: 4(x + x2 + 3x2 - 6x) (1) 2
(2) 20x + 16x2 (3) -4x2 (4) 24x +16x2 (5) -20x + 16x2
31) Simplify 6(k – 3) – 5(k + 2) (1) k + 2
(2) k + 20 (3) k + 18 (4) k – 28 (5) k - 50
32) The perimeter of a square flowerbed is 100 feet. What is the area of the flowerbed in square feet?
(1) 625 (2) 75 (3) 50 (4) 25 (5) 10
33) On a certain compact disc, three songs have the following playing times:
Song A: 4 minutes and 56 seconds Song B: 2 minutes and 30 seconds Song C: 10 minutes and 16 seconds
What is the average playing time of these three songs?
(1) 7 minutes (2) 6 minutes (3) 5 minutes (4) 4 ½ minutes
(5) 3 minutes 40 seconds
34) At what point does the graph of 2x + y = 4 cross the x-axis? (Choose the appropriate point, marked correctly, from one of the grids below.)
