SAT - Beginning of Year Assessment

Magic Math 2015-16

September 13, 2015
1. What is your name?
2. What grade are you in?
Congratulations, youve already answered 2 questions correctly!
3. If pencils cost $0.50 each and notebooks cost $3.00 each, which of the following represents the cost, in
dollars, of p pencils and n notebooks?
(A) 2pn
(B) 3.5pn
(C) 3.5(n+p)
(D) 3n+0.5p
(E) 2(n+0.5p)
4. The average of 7, 20, and x is 20. What is the value of x?
(A) 20
(B) 27
(C) 32
(D) 33
(E) 40
5. Alice, Bob and Carol made a total of 68 greeting cards. Bob made 4 times as many as Alice, and Carol
made 3 times as many as Bob. How many greeting cards did Alice make?
(A) 4
(B) 6
(C) 8
(D) 12
(E) 16
6. If 0.05% of n is 5, what is 5% of n?
(A) 900
(B) 700
(C) 500
(D) 0.007
(E) 0.005

7. What is the equation of the line in the figure shown?

y

7
6
5
4
3
2
1
1
1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
x

(A) y=- 53 x+3

(B) y=- 53 x+5
(C) y=- 53 x+5
(D) y= 35 x+3
(E) y= 35 x+5
8. From the options given, which is between
(A)

1
8

(B)

1
3

(C)

4
7

(D)

2
3

(E)

5
6

1
2

and 85 ?

9. Lines AB and XY intersect at point P .

m6 AP X = 6m, m6 XP B = 3m, and m6 BP Y = n.
What is the value of n?
(A) 60
(B) 75
(C) 90
(D) 105
(E) 120
10. If x2 + x = 20, which of the following is a possible value of x2 x?
(A) -30
(B) 20
(C) 30
(D) 40
(E) 450

11. There are 5 red, 5 green, 5 blue, and 5 yellow hats packaged in 20 identical, unmarked boxes, with 1
hat per box. What is the least number of boxes that must be selected in order to be sure that among
the boxes selected, four or more contain hats of the same color?
(A) 4
(B) 8
(C) 9
(D) 12
(E) 13
12. In the figure shown, F GHIJKLM N is a regular octagon with center P . What is the value of ?
K

P
M

(A) 90
(B) 82.5
(C) 67.5
(D) 57.5
(E) 45
13. Let the function f be defined by f (a) = 6a for all numbers a. Which of the following is equivalent to
f (a y)?
(A) ay
6
(B) 6a y
(C) 6a 6y
(D) 12(a y)
(E) 36ay

14. For which of the following values of k will the system of equations shown below have

no solutions?

3m 4n = 10
6m + kn = 16
(A) -8
(B) -4
(C) 0
(D) 4
(E) 8

15. The circle above has an area of 16 and is divided into 6 congruent regions. What is the perimeter of
one of these regions?
(A) 8 + 8
(B) 8 + 4
9
(C) 8 + 4
3
(D) 8 + 5
(E) 8 + 16
16. If 3x + 2 = 14, what is the value of 5x 6?
(A) -1
(B) 14
(C) 19
(D) 26
(E) 32
17. There are nine classrooms in a particular school. Each classroom has at least 24 students, and at most
30 students. Which of the following could be the total number of students in the school?
(A) 90
(B) 100
(C) 200
(D) 250
(E) 300
18. The average of x and y is 7, and the average of x, y, and z is 10. What is the value of z?
(A) 23
(B) 17
(C) 16
(D) 11
(E) 3

19. In the figure above, a small square is inside a larger square. What is the area, in terms of x, of the
area inside the larger square but outside the smaller one?
(A) 6 2x
(B) 2x 6
(C) x2 6
(D) 9 x2
(E) x2 9
20. If abcd = 3 and abce = 0, which of the following must be true?
(A) e = 0
(B) c = 0
(C) a > 0
(D) b < 0
(E) b > 3
21. During the 2000 fiscal year, a company made 17 of its profits in the first quarter, 13 of its profits in the
second quarter, 12 of its profits in the third quarter, and the remaining 2 million in the fourth quarter.
What were the total profits for the fiscal year?
(A) $18 million
(B) $36 million
(C) $63 million
(D) $84 million
(E) $126 million
22. 44x+6 = 642x , what is the value of x?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 4
(D) 3
(E) 5

23. If 5 more than 3 times a certain number is 3 less than the number, what is the number?
(A) -7
(B) -4
(C) 21
(D) 4
(E) 7

24. In the figure shown, if the area of the larger circle is 25, what is the circumference of the smaller
circle?
J

(A) 5
(B) 2 5
(C) 5
(D) 10
(E) 15
25. If a linear function passes through the points (1,a), (2,b), and (4,18), what is the value of 32 b a?
(A) 4
(B) 7
(C) 9
(D) 18
(E) Not enough information
26.
4, 4, 1, 1 . . .
Each term in the sequence above is found by multiplying the previous term by -1; each odd-numbered
term is found by adding 3 to the previous term. What is the 37th term of the sequence?
(A) -4
(B) -1
(C) 0
(D) 1
(E) 4

27. In the Cartesian plane, the equation of line l is y = 3x + 2. If line m is the reflection of line l in the
y-axis, what is the equation of line m?
(A) y = 3x + 2
(B) y = 3x 2
(C) y = 3x 2
(D) y = 31 x + 2
(E) y = 13 x + 2

28. A magical pine tree grew from 250 ft in 2012 to 1000 ft in 2015. What is the percent increase represented
by this?
(A) 25%
(B) 57%
(C) 200%
(D) 300%
(E) 400%
29. The Apple Kings staff is a cylinder with height 2x and radius x. Which of the following has the same
volume as this staff?
(A) a cylinder with radius 2x and height x
(B) a cube with edge 2x
(C) a rectangular prism with dimensions 2x, x, x
(D) a cylinder with radius 2x and height x
(E) a rectangular prism with dimensions x, 2x, x
30. If 3a + 3(b + 1) = c, what is b + 1 in terms of a and c?
(A)

c
9a

(B)

c
3

(C)

c
3

+a

(D)

c
3

3a

(E)

c
3

3a

1
31. A lumber company producing 13 inch boards can only sell ones cut between 12 15
16 and 13 16 . If they
sell a board that is x inches long, which of the following describes all possible values of x?

(A) |x 13| =

1
16

(B) |x + 13| <

1
16

(C) |x 13| <

1
16

(D) |x + 13| =

1
16

(E) |x 13| >

1
16

32. The least integer of a set of consecutive even integers is -30. If the sum of these integers is 66, how
many integers are in the set?
(A) 12
(B) 14
(C) 30
(D) 33
(E) 35

33. (BON U S SP ECIAL P RIZE) 100 people are standing in a line, all facing forward. Every person
is wearing either a red or blue hat. Each person does not know the color of their own hat or that
of anyone behind them, but can see the hat colors of all people in front of them. Starting from the
back person, who can see all 99 other hats, and then going forward one by one, each person must call
out a color, red or blue. If this color is not the color of their own hat, they will immediately be shot,
which everyone else can hear. Nobody is allowed to communicate in any way with the others except
by calling out their color, and being shot...or not. However, the people are allowed to come up with
a strategy before they line up and the hats are placed on their heads. Devise a strategy for as many
people as possible to escape alive.