ACT: 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies
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1,001 ACT questions with step-by-step solutions
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Lisa Zimmer Hatch has been preparing students for the ACT for over 30 years. She offers private online tutoring for the ACT, SAT, GMAT, GRE, and LSAT and, as an Independent Educational Consultant, assists students with all aspects of the college application process.
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Your ACT score (along with your GPA and the rigor of your high school curriculum) is a very important factor in determining whether you get into college and receive money to pay for your education. Improving your score but just a couple of points can mean getting accepted into the school of your choice and gaining thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial aid.
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Your ACT score (along with your GPA and the rigor of your high school curriculum) is a very important factor in determining whether you get into college and receive money to pay for your education. Improving your score but just a couple of points can mean getting accepted into the school of your choice and gaining thousands of dollars in scholarships and financial aid.
When you encounter an absolute value question on the ACT Math exam, it will often look pretty straightforward. Be careful, though: as you’ll see in the following practice questions, absolute values can affect simple algebra equations and functions in unexpected ways.
Practice questions
Given that –|3 – 3a| = –12, which of the following could be a?
Statistics are everywhere! In sports, business, science—they're an inescapable part of modern life. That's why you can expect to find some questions on the ACT Math exam that will ask you to find or compare the average or median values for a given set of data.In the following practice questions, you're asked to find an average of averages and then use a stem and leaf plot to find the median cookie sales for a scout troop.
There's no getting around it: you'll probably have to solve some questions on the ACT Math exam that deal with circles. To solve the following practice questions, you'll need to know the formulas for the area of a circle and the general equation for a circle.
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The figure shows a portion of the graph of y = (1.
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Okay, so "combinations and permutations" sounds like the name of a class you would take at wizards' college, but these are actually topics that you would cover in a statistics class. They're also something you'll probably need to know for the ACT Math exam.Fortunately, the following practice questions will help you brush up on your skills: first, you'll need to calculate the total number of possible license plate designations for a community, and then you'll be asked to find the total possible number of combinations for a secret code.
It's nice to be color-coordinated and even physically coordinated, but, on the ACT Math exam, it's really useful to be skilled at coordinate geometry. To help you prepare, the following practice questions ask you to find a line that is perpendicular to a given line, and then find the distance between two given points.
If working with a lot of zeroes and decimals makes you feel faint, then you’d better bring some smelling salts on test day, because the ACT Math exam contains a lot of questions where you have to work with decimals.The following practice questions will test your skills (and mettle) at converting a number from scientific notation to decimal form, and finding the difference between two decimal numbers so that you can compare the results.
On the ACT Math exam, you’ll be expected to know all the crazy properties of exponents. The following practice questions involve multiplying and dividing exponents, and also throw in a little algebra, just to make it interesting.
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If
what is the value of c?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 16
E. 32
For all
A.
Not only is factoring fun, but it's also a skill that will earn you valuable points on the ACT Math exam. Try out these practice questions, where you have to factor a quadratic expression and find the value of x in a quadratic equation.
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Which of the following is a factor of a2 – 14a – 15?A.
The ACT Math exam requires you to have a wide range of arithmetic skills, including the ability to work with fractions. The following practice questions will test your skills at adding, dividing, and multiplying fractions, as well as converting to mixed fractions.
Practice questions
What is the solution to
Which of the following is equivalent to
Answers and explanations
The correct answer is Choice (B).
It's very useful to know functions for the ACT Math exam. As you'll see in the following practice questions, function problems can be obvious, showing the trademark f(x), or they can be hidden in a word problem.
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A man threw a baseball from the top of a skyscraper at a height of 1,454 feet.
If you're good at finding patterns, then you'll probably enjoy tackling the geometric sequence questions on the ACT Math exam. In the meantime, you can enjoy working on the following practice questions, one that deals with a fairly simple sequence and the other requiring some algebra.
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What is the fourth term of the geometric sequence whose second term is –6 and whose fifth term is 0.
All things being equal, the chances that you'll have to solve some inequalities on the ACT Math exam are very good. Fortunately, the following practice questions will help you become greater than the challenge!
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Given that x is an integer, for what value of x isand x + 4 < 16?A. 7
B. 8
C. 10
D.
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In geometry, polygons cover a lot of ground, so you can bet that some questions on the ACT Math exam will involve polygons—specifically, finding the interior angles of a polygon.Fortunately, as you'll see in the following practice questions, there's a handy formula that you can use to find a missing interior angle in a polygon, whether it's a square, a hexagon, or whatever.
If you want to hang out on the coordinate plane, then you should know how to use linear equations. On the ACT Math exam, you'll encounter questions like the following, where you're asked to break out the slope-intercept form to calculate the slopes of different lines.
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What is the slope of the line given by the equation 3x = 30 – 5y?
If you think a logarithm is a tree that can do the Macarena, you may want to do some studying before you take the ACT Math exam. Then, you can come back and tackle the following practice questions, where you have to use the properties of logarithms to solve two different equations.
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If 3x = 4y and 5y = 6z, then
For which of following values for x is log64 + log6x = 2?
If you want a high percentage score on the ACT Math exam, then you should know how to solve percentage problems. As you'll see in the following practice questions, percentages appear in a wide range of problems, from business math to algebra.
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Given that 6 percent of (a + b) = 12 percent of b, which of the following must be true?
There's a good chance that the ACT Math exam will contain one or more questions that deal with probability. There's also a good chance that the odds of your answering those questions correctly will improve if you tackle the following practice questions.
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Sheila has 4 black socks and 2 navy socks in her laundry pile.
When you set one ratio equal to another ratio, you've created a proportion. Understanding how to solve a proportion will come in handy on the ACT Math exam.In the following practice questions, you're asked to solve a proportion using cross-multiplication and then to find the best proportion of concentrate to water to create a perfect glass of orange juice.
If you want to aim for a ratio of 60 right answers to zero wrong answers on the ACT Math exam, then you should definitely brush up on your ratio skills.In the following practice questions, you'll use ratios to determine the possible multiples of two numbers, and then to calculate the correct proportions of a bedroom in an architectural blueprint.
These days, all kinds of information is condensed into graphs and charts, so it's good to know how to read visually. The ACT Math exam will contain at least a few questions where you'll need to interpret what a graph is saying in order to solve the problem.The following practice questions are similar to what you'll find: in one, you have to figure out a salesman's traveling schedule based on a graph of his distance travelled each day, and in the other, you need to use a bar graph to calculate how often a certain number was rolled using a pair of dice.
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Some questions on the ACT Math exam present you with a word problem that asks you to set up an algebraic formula that would solve the problem. Nervous? Don't be. Instead, try flexing your formula-building muscles with the following practice questions.
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When asked how many years she had worked at her job, Leah responded, "Take the square root of 605, add it to the square of 5, and take 25 percent of the resulting sum.
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You're almost guaranteed to run across a problem or two dealing with systems of equations on the ACT Math exam. The following practice questions will test your skills at solving these tricky problems.
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What is the value of a in the (a, b) solution to the following system of equations?
What is the value of y in the following system of equations?
A big part of geometry involves working with angles, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the ACT Math exam contains a number of questions involving them. You may want to brush up on the properties of angles before you take on the following practice questions (and definitely before you tackle the ACT!)
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In the figure, A, B, and C are collinear.
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As if one variable weren't enough, the ACT Math exam will sometimes throw multiple variables into some of its algebra questions. The following practice questions test your skills with using substitution to solve for the variables a and b, and rearranging an equation to solve it in terms of y – x.
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If a is five greater than b, and the sum of a and b is –15, then b2 =A.
The ACT exam contains five sections that cover English, math, reading, science, and an essay. To pass the ACT, studying beforehand really helps, but you also need to budget your time wisely on test day.
English section
The first test is the English exam, where five scintillating passages await. Each presents around 15 questions for a total of 75 questions.
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When a bookkeeper records sales transactions for a company, the way she records them depends on whether the sales are made on account, with credit cards, or with cash.
The following practice questions ask you to combine all three transaction types in order to calculate a company's total sales for a day.
Practice questions
Use the following information to answer the questions.
Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Sales (ROS) are two different ways to measure a company's profitability. ROE is used by outside investors, while ROS is used by the people in the company.
The following practice questions ask you to calculate both ROS and ROE for the same company.
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Use the following information to answer the questions.
When you want to determine how well a company is performing, a good way to find out is by calculating its Return on Investment (ROI). You find the ROI by dividing operating income by average operating assets.
The following practice questions ask you to calculate the ROI for one company and then compare the ROIs for different divisions of another company.
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If you want to know whether a company can pay its current liabilities, you need to look at a special ratio called its current cash debt coverage. The following practice questions ask you to calculate this ratio for two different companies.
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Trendy Royal Coaches has these comparative balance sheets:
From the statement of cash flows, cash provided by operating activities was $350 in 2015 and $270 in 2014.
As its name implies, the statement of changes in stockholders' equity includes only items that impact a corporation's equity. The following practice questions will bring you up to speed on what this statement includes and leaves out.
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Which of the following is not included on the statement of changes in stockholders' equity?
The ACT has four required sections and one optional section. Each has its own time limit. The following table shows you how many questions each ACT section has and how much time you have to answer them.
ACT Breakdown by Section
Test
Number of Questions
Time Allotted
English
75 in 5 passages
45 minutes
Mathematics
60
60 minutes
Reading
40 in 4 passages
35 minutes
Science
40 in 6 pasages
35 minutes
Writing (optional)
1
40 minutes
In total, you have 216 questions to answer in 205 minutes.
Taking the ACT requires quite a bit of preparation. At least six weeks before your test date, plan to devote a portion of each day to the ACT. Pick up a copy of the most recent edition of 1,001 ACT Practice Questions For Dummies and immerse yourself in the problems. As you work, be sure to avoid these traps:
Losing concentration: When you're in the middle of an excruciatingly boring reading passage, the worst thing you can do is let your mind drift off to a more pleasant time.
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