Math League Practice Grades 4 and 5

What is the value of 117 ones plus 2 hundred plus 18 tens? Sam can read 8 pages is 4 days and Tom can read 9 pages in 18 days. How many days does it take for them to read 100 pages together? Alan scored 100, 84, 92, and 120 on different tests. What is[…]

Can You Correct these Grammar Mistakes?

Yahoo is led by a woman but HP is not. Facebook is a publicly traded company, but was not before 2000. Both Avaya or Panasonic offers excellent phone systems. Dancing in the rain is a favorite pastime for most children. Susan enjoys traveling to Vermont; she always tries to hike, ski, and fishing. The class[…]

SAT/ACT English Tips!

What is a full sentence? There are 3 ways to separate 2 full sentences Semicolon ; Period . ,and | ,but |,or |FANBOYS Subject verb agreement Singular subject—singular verb The student tries to succeed. Ignore prepositional phrases when matching subject and verb The carton of boxes weigh 20 twenty pounds. The apple and the orange[…]

Test Your Functions Knowledge

f(a)=2a2-80 If f(2c)=100, what is the value of c? x∆y=4x-2y+3xy This describes a relation for any two real numbers, x+y. If (2a+1)∆4=50, find the value of a∆a? c∇d=4ac+2cd+8d-8 If 4∇5=240, find 2∇3. Sales (s) are a function of price (p). s(p)=2p-14c+1800. When price is $8.00, sales are $1800.00. What should price be in order for sales to reach[…]

SAT/ACT Math Problem Set

What is one possible value of F  ? 23>12f–20>76 When y=kx, k is a constant and when y=50, x=12. Find y when x is 5. If a=kb where k is a constant. When a=10, b=20. Find b when a=15. 8+12x is 18 more than 35. What is the value of 20x. For what value of n is[…]

SAT/ACT Math Practice Problems

36n+36n+36n=181 Find all values of n. x+y=80 and x–y=5. Find the value ofx+y. n people purchase a gift (g) for $l. m people purchase another gift (p) for $q. If n>m and l<q, find the difference in price between g and p. The total cost of a party is $185. If the cost is shared[…]

Math Problem Set

The final price of a computer is C dollars. This is after a 15% off coupon, 8% sales tax and 4% employee discount. Find an expression for I, the initial price, in terms of the final price. The quantity of pens supplied can be described as a function of price (p) such that s(p)=80+4p. The[…]

SAT/ACT Math Practice

Frankie drives 80 miles in 3 hours and another 75 miles in 5 hours. What is the value of his average rate? The Eagleneck gym has 6 bikes that 9 athletes want to use. At 5pm they randomly select one athlete per bike. If Alan, Bob, Caryn, Darrel, Edgar, and Frank are 6 of the[…]

There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Math!

In a bag there are 6 blue marbles, 4 red marbles, 7 yellow marbles, and 3 white marbles. How many which should be added so p(white) becomes 34? Staples now sells their own notebooks. Making notebook has a fixed factory cost of$6,000 and a per unit cost of $0.58 per notebook. Staples sells these notebooks[…]

TIP: Know How to Solve These 10 SAT/ACT Math Problems

1. Line q passes through (s, s+4) and is perpendicular to line r. If line r follows , find the value of . 2. Line n intersects the y-axis at 5 and is a horizontal line with a slope of zero. Line n intersects at which point? 3. A right circular cylinder with volume is inscribed[…]