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UNM Math Placement Test
Which of the following fractions are equal to 0.06? a. 1/ b. 1/ c. 6/ d. 6/100 - Answer -d. 6/ A club has 36 members. If each member donates 12 items for an auction, how many items will there be in the auction? a. 48 b. 108 c. 422 d. 432 - Answer -d. 432 What is the value of 4/10 + 3/ a. 43/ b. 43/ c. 7/ d. 7/110 - Answer -a. A conference planner has put together 280 binders for attendees and another 31 binders for presenters. How many total binders did the planner put together for attendees and presenters? a. 211 b. 249 c. 311 d. 590 - Answer -c. A store stocked 150 cans of popcorn for a weekend sale. That weekend, 72 of the cans sold. What percent of the cans of popcorn stocked were sold that weekend? a. 2% b. 5% c. 48% d. 72% - Answer -c. 8/3, 2.28, 10/12, 0. What number in the list above has the greatest value? - Answer -8/
If Manuel deposits 25% of 130$ into a savings account, what is the amount of his deposit? a. $5. b. $25. c. $32. d. $97.50 - Answer -c. What is 1,582 + 761? a. 1, b. 1, c. 1, d. 2,343 - Answer -d. Xiaoming is making cookies. Each batch of cookies uses 3 eggs. If Xiaoming has 20 eggs, and assuming he has enough of the other ingredients to make the cookies, what is the greatest number of batches that he can make? a. 3 b. 6 c. 7 d. 17 - Answer -b. What is the value of 3.85 + 0.004 + 0.117? - Answer -3. Which of the following is equivalent to 8/25? a. 0. b. 0. c. 0. d. 3.125 - Answer -b. 0. What is the remainder when 599 is divided by 9? a. 0 b. 5 c. 6 d. 9 - Answer -b. 5 A machine is currently set to a feed rate of 5.921 inches per minute (IPM). The machinist changes this setting to 6.088 IPM. By how much did the machinist increase the feed rate? a. 0.167 IPM b. 1.67 IPM c. 1.833 IPM d. 1.967 IPM - Answer -a. 0.167 IPM 0.075, 0.75%, 3/ What is the correct order of these numbers? - Answer -0.75%, 0.075, 3/
What is the number of grams in 500 kg? ( 1kg - 1,000 grams) a. 0. b. 5, c. 50, d. 500,000 - Answer -d. In the xy-plane, a line crosses the y-axis at the point (0,3) and passes through the point (4,5). Which of the following is an equation of the line? a. y = 1/2 x + 3 b. y = 2x + 3 c. y = (1/2)x - 4 d. y = 2x - 4 - Answer -a. The amount of money (M), in dollars, Paul earns can be represented by the equation M = 12.5h + 11, where (h) is the number of hours Paul works. Which of the following is the best interpretation of the number 11 in the equation? a. The amount of money, in dollars. Paul earns each hour b. The total amount of money, in dollars, Paul earns after working (h) hours c. The total amount of money, in dollars, Paul earns after working for one hour d. The amount of money, in dollars, Paul earns in addition to an hourly wage - Answer - d. Which of the following fractions is equivalent to [ -6 - (-9) ] / 8? a. - (3/8) b. 3/ c. - (15/8) d. 15/8 - Answer -b. Water runs from a pump at a rate of 1.5 gallons per minute. At this rate, how long would it take to fill a tub with a 150-gallon capacity? a. 10 minutes b. 100 minutes c. 225 minutes d, 2,250 minutes - Answer -b. The volume of a right rectangular prism is found by multiplying the length of the base by the width of the base by the height of the prism. A right rectangular prism has a volume of 30 cubic inches. If the height of the prism is 6 inches, what is the area of the base of the prism? a. 5 sq. inches b. 24 sq. inches c. 36 sq. inches d. 180 sq. inches - Answer -a. Jacoby followed a recipe that requires 2 cups of water for every 3 cups of flour. If he used 8 cups of flour, how many cups of water did he use?
a. 2 (2/3) b. 4 c. 5 (1/3) d. 12 - Answer -c. 4 (x + 5) + 4x + 8 Which of the following is equivalent to the expression above? a. 4 (2x + 7) b. 8 (x + 4) c. 5x + 17 d. 8x+13 - Answer -a. It took Khalid 90 minutes to complete 40 tasks. Which of the following is an equivalent rate? a. 10 tasks in 0.9 minutes b. 10 tasks in 2.25 minutes c. 10 tasks in 9 minutes d. 10 tasks in 22.5 minutes - Answer -d. Which of the following values is equivalent to 5^- a. 1/ b. 1/ c. - d. -125 - Answer -b. Which of the following expressions is equivalent to [(x^3)(x^2)]^ a. x^ b. x^ c. x^ d. x^30 - Answer -c. The elevation at the summit of Mount Whitney is 4,418 meters above sea level. Climbers begin at a trailhead that has an elevation of 2,550 meters above sea level. What is the change in elevation, to the nearest foot, between the trail head and the summit? (1 foot = 0.3048 meters) a. 569 feet b. 5,064 feet c. 6,129 feet d. 14,495 feet - Answer -c. 3x - 2y = 15 x= The two lines given by the equations above intersect in the xy-plane. What is the value of the y-coordinate of the point of intersection? a. - b. -
a. (6x)^2 = 0 b. (x - 6)^2 = 0 c. (x + 6)^2 = 0 d. (x - 6)(x + 6) = 0 - Answer -b. If f(x) = x^2 + 3x + 1, what is f(x + 2)? a. x^2 + 3x + 3 b. (x + 2) + 3(x + 2) + 1 c. (x + 2) (x^2 + 3x + 1) d. x^2 + 3x + 9 - Answer -b.
