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How many sides does a pentagon have?
A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six E. Seven
What is the distance all the way around a square that has a side length of 10 inches?
A. 10 inches B. 20 inches C. 40 inches D. 100 inches
Which one of the following represents 3 tens?
A. 3 B. 30 C. 300 D. 310
What number should go in the box above to make the number sentence true?
ANSWER:
A pencil, 2 pens, and a marker are in a drawer. Leah picks one of these without looking. What are her chances of picking out the pencil?
A. 1 out of 1 B. 1 out of 2 C. 1 out of 3 D. 1 out of 4
Age 13 Sample Questions
Change the following mixed numeral to an improper fraction.
2 1/8 =
What is the number in the box?
A. Seven hundreths B. Seven tenths C. Seven D. Seventy
How many grams are in one kilogram?
A. 1 B. 10 C. 100 D. 1,000
What value of b makes the following sentence true?
26 x b = 26
Age 17 Sample Questions
What is the area of the figure above?
ANSWER: square in.
Which of the following is true about 56% of 20?
A. It is less than 20. B. It is greater than 20. C. It is equal to 20. D. It is more than double 20.
The degree measures of the angles of a rectangle are a, b, c, and d. Which of the following must be true about the rectangle?
A. a + b + c = d B. a + b + c + d = 90 C. a + b + c + d = 180 D. a + b + c + d = 270 E. a + b + c + d = 360
Which of the following inequalities is equivalent to 5n + 4 < 19?
A. n < 3 B. n < 5 C. n > 5 D. n < 10
If A/40 = 120, what does A/80 equal?
A. 60 B. 120 C. 240 D. 9,600