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L¢tf(x) = +12 . What is the value of f(10) 7 14 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 4: Thc 2 graphs shown below represent a car trip.. Th¢ graph on th¢ Icfi shows the total distance as a function of tllne. The.gr.aph' on the right'shows the total. number of gallons of ' gasoline used as a function bf tlte tota! . distancc.. ApproAimatGly how many gallons of gasolinq were used dwing the first 2 hours of the.trip. ,DO YOUR FIGURING HERE. A250 10 150 0 1 2 3 4 5 t. time, An hours I￿). 21X) d distance, in miles 25

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Source question 4. appointment; she -appointsllent and she appointment, she you know." LT47A GO ON TOTHE NEXT PAGE. It was a difficult concept for me to grasp. My grandmother triéd to explaits that."Miami time" referred to.

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Giv¢n that ali the choices are true. which one provides .'the best openiug to this paragraph?. ,B.." .I..TCllLember beillg late lor a docror's appointment one day. and I becamc ¢losc ovcr the years. never met. those moments, whén time seemed to slow down Or stsnd . 6. F. NO CHANGE moments .when moments, because still. Recently. the rneanirtg of her words started to sink in.

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A bus company always keeps 3 tires in stock for every 'bus.it ownsi plus an additional 30 tsres in stock for em¢rgencies. A¢cording to .this policy. the . bus company needs to have a total of .120 tires in stock: How many buses does the'coinpany own?

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For what value of x is the equation 2(x - 6) + x = 36 true? ACT47A 15 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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Source question 8. inadvertently slip are inadvertently slipping inadvertently slipped . 9. A. .NO CHANGE

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Let r. s. and t b¢ positive integers .such.that rs "st="36, and t - 3. What is the value of T ? 24.

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Source question 10.

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For."the sake of the logic and coherence of this para- graph,-SenteDce 3 should be placed: where it is now. afLGr Sentence l. after Sent'ence 4. We spent the rest of the morning veering from the trail to investigate small snatches of life. Lizards lazin8 in the sun and.quail rustled through grasses .surprised us. 12

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Source question 12. rustling were njstling Wild blackberries inelted on our tongues'."For example, the 13 aroma "of crushed eucaiyptus leaves tingled in out noses.

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Source question 13. ACT.67A GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. By the time we found our way back to tile car, the s￿n was high in the sky. We had .taken three hol￿& to compl¢¢e a hike we usuall.y finished in forty-five minutos. Yet tlie hike felt shorter tben evei. As'we dtove off, I remembered 14 something else my grandmother. used to say: "Miami time passes all too quickly.- . 14.. F... . NO CHANGE more shorter then". ..H. th¢ sbortest thao . shorter than ()uestion .15. asks about the prece(ling passage as a whole. .15.. Suppose the: writer's..goal., had .been.. to write a brief '.essay conv¢ying a,personal cx erience with "Miami tim¢." Would this essay success lly fuLfAII that goal? experience of 2 mornioy t.in Mialni tim& ' at Aftcr a conversation Ivi'th: tFie graiidmother, tbe nafrator. decided to liv¢ in Miami time. erson witb regard'io.the me4ping of Miami time. .: the grandmother, Jot to the narrator. PASSAGE 11 Faith Rlnggold's Quilting'Bee The artist Faith Rillggold has made a name for herself. with her story quilts," lively combinations of painting. quiltillg> and storytelling. Each artWOTk consists of a painting framed by quilted squares of fabric and 8tory . panels. One of these artworks,.The SunJ70ivers Quiltlng Bee at Arles, depicts a scene of women at work on. a quilt in a field of towerillg yclioll, floweAS that eiglt African 16 American women sit around the quilt that covers tbeir laps. J6. F. NO CHANGE Who are these people stitching among the flowers? What brings them so.clos¢ that,their shoulders touch?. ACT47A GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Thus, the answer6 to these qtsestsons can .17 be found. ia the artwork itself. Ringgold bas told

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Which of the followtng expressions is equivalent.to the one given below? 3+7(x-6) 3(x-6)+1 10 13 10 7x-39 3x-8 IOx-42 13x-18 IS. bi.the standard (x,y) coordinate plane, an equation of a circle is x + y

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Source question 15. Refer to the source image.

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Four points, A.. B, C..ana D,'lie OD a circle having a circunrference of17 units. B is 5 units counterclockwise from A. C is 3 units clockwisé from'A'. D is 11 units 'clockwise from A and 6 uryits. counterclockwise froth A. .What is thé order of th¢ 'points. sfarting with A and going clockwis¢ around thc circle? ACT47A . . 17 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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In 19.85.. the cost of clothing for a certain family was $620. In 1995, 10 years later, the cost of clothillg for . this faEnily .was '$ l.OOO': Assuming the cost iDcreas¢d linearly. what was the coat of this family's clothing in 19917 DO YOUR FIGURING HERE.

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For a math homework'ossignmcnt, Karla found the area and perimetèr of a room of her house. She reported that the area of .her rectangular living room.is 180 square feet'and that the perimeter is 54 f¢et. ,When drawing a sketch of her living room the next day, she realized that. she had. forgotten to .write down. the dimensions of the room. What are the dimensions of Karla s living room. in feet?. 9by20 'G. Ioby 18

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Source question 19. its. its women th¢ story explains, strove

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Source question 20. . women. the.story ¢xplains- ' women the story .explains . women,..the"story explains. '. 21., Th¢.widerlined :phrase could,be placed in all tbe.fol-. lowing locatioiis EXCEPT: where it is naw. after the word smpporl. period). in their various ways to support the cause of justice in the world. ', In reality," these wnmen never met.to p.iece together 22

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To park a'car at a sbort-tenn parking lot costs $1.75 for the Is¢ hour or any part thereof, $1.50 for tbe 2nd bour or any part thereof, and $0.75 for each additional hour or ally paTt ther¢of after, the 2nd hour. Your ticket shows that you..parked your car in this'lot from 10:47 a.m. to 4:35 p.m..on the same day. What is the cost of parking your car, accordifjg to"'this ticket? (N.ote: Prices include all applicable sales tax.) ACT47A 18 GO ON TOTHE NEXT PAGE.

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:The degree. ]i]wtres of the, illtrrior angles of LSABC. shown . below, forni ' an .arithmetic 'sequence with common difference . IO.. What is the first terni of the 'sequ¢nce? . DO YOUR FIGURING HERE. . K.. 30°

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Point B lies on AC beiween A aud C. Point D is a point not on AC such that the measure of £ABb' is 38°. What is the measure of'£CBD ? .T. 142°

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Source question 24. -was actively engaged .was engaged were active courageously spoke out for social and racial justice in th¢ late nineieenth and early twelltieth centuries.

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Which of the following is the equation 3(x - y) = 5 solved for y x.- 15

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Which of the following statements is true about odd andlor. even numbers? .￿ET.67A 19. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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Source question 27. ' B. Madajii C. J". Walker:later.bequeathed millions:of.. dollars.to'charities and educational institutions., '. charities and educational iDstitutions later Tkceived . millions of 'dollar.s frommadam C. J."Walker. , D. .n￿￿OnS of dollars were later. bequeathed to chari- ties and educatsoual institutions.by Madam C. J. Walker. generosity,. were those that Mary McLeod Bethune opened and ran in order to provide a better education for Black students. And Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Rosa Parks showed leadership and strength during the civil rights movement, it hapi)ened in the 1950s and 1960s. In the artwork.-Ringgold has surrounded these women Ivith bright sunflowers. The tlowers S￿rn to celebrate the women's accomplishtnents a4d the beauty of tbeir shared 28,. F. NO CHANGE. . 29. A. NO CHANGE . movement,.It"took place in movement,':that happ¢lled in illovement of vision. 30

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To wjn the student council election, a candidate.must rcc¢ivc over 50 of thei Votes cast. There were 750 votes cast.. Vlhich "of the followillg expressions is true about x. the. minimum number of votes that a candidate must have received to iiiin the ele¢tion? x<375 x>375 x<376' x>376 . 29. A machille part is diagrwed .in th'e figure below with the 4imensions given'in incbes. If the c¢uters of the . circles lie oti the same line parallel to the bottorn of the part, wbat is the distaDce,.in inches, beLween the centers of the 2 holes ITr the machine part? 16 bottom 16 16 13 16 16 AcT￿7A 20 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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Source question 29. Refer to the source image.

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A fathcr and his .son are standing ncar to each other on. level ground late one .afternoon so. that their.shadows .. end at the same placc. The father is. 75 inch¢s tall. the 'son 18 50 inches tall, and th¢ father'& shadow is. 120 inch¢s long, 28 shown ID the fi ure below. Which 'of the following."is closc.st. to the istance. d inches, between the father and his son? DOYOUR FIGURING HERE. 80 120 ?1. In tlie standard (xly) coordinate plane. what is the distance. :in cooidinate units. between.(-3,-2) and (5,5) ? 15.

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Source question 31. was allowing 31 filmmakers to create spectacular science fictson films to intrigue us with worlds beyond our experience. Imagine the. excitement in 1902 when audiences r￿st saw Le Voyage -32 dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), a groundbreaking movie produced by Georges Meliès. , 32. F. NO CHANGE GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. ACT4IA [1] Undaunted. Méliès honed his photographtc skills to tell fantasy stories instead. [2] Méliès. 2 French magkcian,. was fascinated by the workings of the new motion picture camera. [3] Specializillg .in stage illusions, Ire ttiought the camera offere'd potential to expand its spectacular magic Productions. [4] By 1895.. he was working with the ne*.invention. [5] He found

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. Chayton decides to save money in a savings account. for a vacation. y¢ deposits $10 ifi his.savings account thé 1st montb.. Each montfi th¢reafter' the amount h¢ deposits is $10 more'than the amount 11¢ deposited the previous month.::Thus. Cliayton's deposit Is $20'.the . 2nd nionth. $30 the 3rd month. .and So on. .He Iiiakes his final deposit of $360 the 36th month. What is the total amount of Chayton':s 36 deposits? .

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Source question 33. out. however, that the public preferred live magic

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Source question 34. out, b.owever- out however" acts to filmed versions. Js . 35. FOT .the sake of the logic and ,coherence.of this para- graph. Sentence l.:should be placed: where it is now.. after Sentence 2. after Sentence 3. Méliès's rnagician's eye led him to discover the b2SiCS '. of special effects: [] He experimented with effects.suc 36 as speeding up and slowing down the act&on, reversing it ,for.backward movemeDt, add superimposing images .of., .fantastic creatures over real people. Using overhead . 36., The-writer Ais .,considering.￿elCting.the: precedin&. sen-. t6nce -fro￿ the" essay..The sentence should NOT be . deleted because it.: imp'ortant to.understariding the essay., phy that Méliès eventually learned, creates a transition that pro.vides a further connec- . tion between Méliès the magician and Méliès the filmmaker. indicates that Méliès's interest in learning about tnck photography existed before his interest in roagic .37. Given that all.the choices are true, which one would best ¢onclude this sentence so that it illustrates Méliès's skill and inventiv.eness? pulleys and. trapdoors, he.was able to do interesting things. 31 Aware of the popularity of Jules Verne's science Méliès saw excilinry possibilities in filming a space odyssey. The: interplanetary travel filni that be created. A Tr.ip to the Moon, had production costs of $4.000,' hkghly excessivety for its time. In this film, a sp.ace 38 fiction novel¢ productions.

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Ken used a piece of cardboard Iarge enough to allow the .cardboard to extend 2 incbes beyolld the cake oll. all sides. What is the: area. in square inches, of the aluLiiinum foil that.is exposed on the top surfaGe of th¢ cardboard?

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At the Math Club rneetiug. Principal Gonzales cut the entire cake illto pieces. Each piece is 2 inches wide, 2'inches long, and 3. inches high. What is th¢ number. of pieccs Principa] Gouzales cut tbe cake into?

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. The Math Club will pay Ken $5.00 for preparing. th¢ cake and will also pay.him for the cost of the cake rn￿. at $1.73. the frosting. rAiX at $2.67. and the sales tax. of 5% on tbesc 2. items. What. is the total amount the Math Club will pay Ken? 22 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. ACT47A

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Points A and:B lié .on the circ angle ZACB Measures 1-1.0:. ZABC ? hat is the measure of . DOY.OUR FIGURING HERE. 11(r

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Source question 39. capsule that is fired and thereby. launched and projected 39 from a cannon lands in the eye of the Man in the Moon. A￿.67A GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. In a strange terrain filled with hostile creatures. the . 40 space tr&velers experience many adVellti￿eS. They escape back to earth in the capsule by falling off the edge of the moon, landing in the ocean. they bob 41 around until a passiiig ship fmally rescues them. Producing ttie fllm long before interplanetary explorations had b¢gan', 42

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Nadia work4 exactly 40 hows each week and earns a minimum of .$1.,200 every 4 weeks. Her hourly rate of. pay is deterniined by the job she is assigned and may vary. If x is Nadi&'s avcrage.. bourly pay for a 4-week period, which of . the fol.lowing inequalities best describes x ? xg$ 30.00 x>$ 30.00 DO YOUR FIGURING HERE.

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Source question 41. moon..Landing • ' <moon, after landing

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Source question 42. would of beguu, .43. Which of the following. altcrnatives to the underlined word viould be LEAST arxeptablB7 whet awaken Méliès could arouse ]iis' audience's curiosity with unconstrained fantasy. People are still going to theaters to sec- science fiction filllks. ' 44..Given -that" all.,th¢,cboice3':4re' true., hich'.ffjne..'would ._ .. ' most"'.cffectively" express" the". .wn-ter's..vi¢wpoirit.'about . Méliès's rol¢ in science fiction filmmaking. f￿￿'genre that still packs theaters. . making mahy years ag,0. lot about space. Question 45 asks about the preceding passage as a whole."

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The diagram of the ro.of for.a new storage shed is shown below. Some lengths arc given in meters. but the length of the vertical support, BD, bas been left off. Wbich of the followin8 expressions gives the length, in meters, of BD ? 12 25" .A. 12 siri 25° B, 12 tan 25° 12 eo$ 25°. 12 sill 25° CTb67A 24 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Use the following information to answèr questions 44-46. DO YOUR FIGURING HERE. In tile figure below. ￿ACB is 4 nght tsiaugle with legs of length a units and b units, where O < a < b, and hy.potenuse . of length c units. The triangles LIYCA, ￿ZBA, an& AXCB are equilateral. The area of an equilateral triangle with sia¢s x units I0￿g is

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. What is the perimeter of pentagon AZBCY, in units? a+ b+2c a+2b+2c a+3b+3c

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. For all values of a and b such that O < a < b, which of the following lists the angles ZXCY, 2CAZ, and ZCBZ in order.of their measures from least to greatest 7 46, If b = 2a, what is tan(ZABC) 7 ACT47A 25 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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Source question 46. . went from

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.A. NO.CHANGE . D... DELETE th¢ Und￿lined portion. generation's favorit¢ sleuth would of been Tetired to the 47 library's dustyi back rooms. I was. wrong.

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Source question 48. H libraries dusty

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"Which.choice'provides the.most specific inforniation? . a high nU￿ber

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Source question 50. Nancy Drew. 'the teenaged heroine of heaps of young 49 adult mystcry novels, is alive and"welL arid still on the.job. 50 I know because.my niece. Lian￿ Ind her friends were novels. is alive, nov¢ls is alive readiiig that all summer long."By the time Liana went back 51 .. 51. A. .￿0.CHANGE . up on ttsat it over to school and had followed Nancy Drew on .a safari to 52.

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If statement "If a cat is tricolor, theh it is a female" were trne. which of the following statellieDts would. alsothave to be true? If a cat is a female,"thcn il is tricolor." "If a cat is llot a female.. then it is tricolor." "If a cat is not a female, then it is.riot tricolor." "If a cat is not tricolor, tlièn it is a female." "If a Cat is not tricolor. then it is not a female." DO YOUR FIGURING HERE.

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Source question 52. school, shé had. scbool. havillg school,-she solve The Spider Sapphire Mystery and bad explored Incan iuins for'clues to The Secret of the Crossword Cipher.

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Which of the following trigonometric functions is equivalent to the function g(x) = sin x "Sec x ? (Note: sec x = cosx f(x) = cot x cos'.x .54. tbe table b'eloiv gives sorne (x,y) pairs that satisfy a linear relationship. What does z equal?.

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Giv¢ll. that all Ihe. choices are true, ￿'hic11, oue best illustrates the variety of .settings for.the Nancy Dr¢¥v mysteries and also expresses Liana's interest in these books? adventures involving all sorts of colorful chaTrcters. .from Arizona to Argentina. from Nairobi to New York. about many new. places around the world. With Nancy's belp, Liana had read about different S4 places and various cultures all over the world. 54 AGf.67A When I was a girl in the 1960s. my friends arid J loved Nancy Drew. We loved her loyal companions, her bravado, and

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. At 'this"point, the .writer is.thinkAng .about.adding the folloiving tru¢ statement: One .of .a number o( series that:,bave feaiured , tbe,youllg feffjale:d¢t¢ctive, the Nancy .Drew . Mystery Story. series was begun in 1930 .and now totals 173 books. Sbould the writer make this adthtion here? ' A. Yes,: because it . supports "statements about. the .' long¢vity and popularity of this sertes.. - B." Yes, .because it .helps ,to explam why the. Da￿atOr . loved Nan¢y Drcw." focus.of this paragraph. . about the. author of the series. there was a love for her freedom to do what she wanted.

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Source question 56. ' a"love.for.her.freedom.to.do.wbat siie .wanted. . J.: . th'¢ freedom to do as one wants. Which::of' the..fc*llowing .?Iternatives .to: the...Und￿lIaed ." portion.would be LEAST acceptable? . A. fvrtbermore . We also loved how smart she was and how pretty, how . confident and successful. We were surprised and delighted that eighte¢n-year-old Nancy was so accomplished at so ' . many things. She was able. to solve crimes,.Ivin golf -58 .tournaments, kick bad guys in the shins; and impress her father's distinguished clients. She did it all-and without scuffing her sboes or losing her supportive boyfriend; Ned. Liana and her friends don't seen] to care that Nancy is pretty or popular. They Jaugh., mockingly l think, at Nallcy'.s friend B.ess, who squeals at spiders. They prefer her other Èirlfriend George, the judo expert and computer N&'hiL. They slip uver Ilic loKio de.s-iiptions o. o?Jtfits an4 fashion accessories. According to Liana. they just want to

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Amal's teacher assigned each student in class to draw a . trapezoid using a segment of the line y x x as one side. The interior of AM￿'S trapezoid is shotyri sha&ed in the standard (x,y) ¢oordinate plane'below. The equatlons of the lines that intersect" to forni the trapezoj'd are also shown. x=lO -10-8 -6-.4- 2 4 6 8 10 x Thf next part.of the assigntaerit was 'to reflect the trapezoid. across the x-axis'and write.a set of inequalities. defining the Eeflected trapezoid and its interior. Which of. the followjng sets of inequalitiès should Amal have written? 'B. x< 10,:_5.£yg-2, y>_x 58: In the standard (x,y) coordinate plane below. an angle is shown whose vertex is'the origin. One side of this angle with'measure e passes through (4,-3). and the other side includes the positive x-axis. .What is the cosine..of 9 ? (4.-3) AGf47A 28 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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Source question 58. . was capable o! solving. crimes: as, good at,crime.solving, solved criryes. get on with the story. . GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. ACT-67A 10 Perhaps I am oveily optimiatic, but I'd like to b£liey.e th2t Liana's gelleration doesn't I"ov¢ Nancy Drew because she's a successfui.girl detective."They don't need to be reminded that girls can be succcssful they know that. What these girls ll¢ed and love are. the stories th¢Ms¢lv￿.

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'A. .NO CHANGE

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Let the function f(a,b) be defined as f(a,b) = For all x and y, f((x + y'),(x- y)) = ? -2xy +'2y' END OF TEST 2 STOP! DO NOT TURN THE PAGE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO. DO NOT RETURFI TO THE PREVIOUS TEST. ACT.67A 29

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.A. NO,CHANGE . twentieth-century..science fiction writers whose works become best-sellers, this planet has often been a symbol of ill will and 'daDger.

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Given tkiat all the choices are true. which one is most relevant to the *tatettient that follows.iii this sentence? . with their wild imaginations about outer space, who penned spine-tingling stories of "little green men frcim Mars," who created images of Mars in literature,

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Givej that all the choices are true, wh.ich one best leads from the preceding paragiaph to the subject of this paragraph? The United States has competed with otber countries to explcire space. By 2003,"the National Aeronautics and dissipati￿g. run its pace program. d Mars.'are both .planets in the inner solar system. Space Administration: (NASA) would of sent thirty

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, F. NO CHANGE send spacecraft to the red planet, speculation has been prompted thal a human voyage may no longer be the stuff of fiction. .65. A. NO CHANGE which is speculatioll aCT.87A 11 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Few would deny that the idea of a buman mission to Mars 66 is éxciting. who is re2dy to pay. for such all ¢xpedition? Recent reports suggest that the cost of a human voyage to Mars could run as high as 100 billion dollars. This is a startling numbcr, cspecially in light of the fact that the International Space Station, the most ambitious NASA project yet. carried a projected price tag of "only" .17 billion doll'ars. In the end.. NASA overspent on th¢

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Source question 65. Refer to the source image.

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Source question 66. Although few

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Source question 67. International Space Station. 68 ne can only imagine

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. The writer is considering adding the following true inforn)ation to tlye end of the prcccdiug sentence (plac- ' in¥ a conima'after the. word Siaiion): with'a final.constructiou.¢ost of.almost 30.bil- lion dollars. .Should the,writer.make tliis. additiDn? ' ,' this sentence by adding explic1( detail. . G."_.Y.es,,because' it proves space flight will be Epore affordable in the future. . H. No.-becaus¢ it weakens the point Jnade in the para- . ' graph-about the'cost of burnan fiight lo Mars" . the,human experience.in travel "to Mars. . 69..A.,.NO,CHANGE wbat , D. DELETE thevllderlined portion.

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Source question 69. Refer to the source image.

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Given that all the choices are true, which one'most effectively describes what the Mars Rovers are? which captured the imagination of the general . public. tle products described at length in the meiaia- at the tiKiIe- '.if the fmal price of .a hunian.voyage .to Mars would be. In contrast. the two Mars Rovers- robotic spacecraft launched. ifi 2003-carried dollars. These kovers are sophisticated pieces of Lechnology, with the capacity and ability to ex"4niine soil 71 and rocks. Their equipment may aDswer questions that have long been posed about the presence of water and life on Mats.

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-4. NO CHANGF. capacity ACT47A 12 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. Sending machines unaccompanied by"humans to ' Mars does drain some of the romance out of aging or older 72 .NO. CHANGE . old-age aging. old age-old

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Source question 72. Refer to the source image.

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. L . NQ CHANGE . visions of space travel. in othBr words, we tseed.to keep ill mind that the right equipmetst can accomplish as much as: any crew of scientists, if not niOre￿Su¢ 74 the cost.. Before any astrouaut boards a spar¢craft'for that distant planet, the staggering expenge of such a Mission . should be carefully considered. as a fraction of '

Paper 65 · ACT December 2008 · Form 67A · English Test

.F. .:NO CHANGE 'G. at , H. :but only 75 . 75. The.'ivIiter is considering ¢nding the essay with the fol- I￿vIng statement.. With the passagc.of time, humans will con- . tinue to gaze￿ awe toward the beavenly skies '.as.a'sourcc of inspiration and mystery. '.Should the writer add this s¢ntence here? basis. for the space. exploration .described in the essay. . i￿Significance of money ill rclation to the mystery . of space, essay s..chTonological:history. of'_T)eople 'who ..trav- eled in space.. on Mars and the cost of sending humans there. END OF'TEST 1 STOPI DO NOT TURN THE PAGE UNTIL TOLD to DO SO. AGf47A 13. ATHEMATICS.TEST 60 Minutes-60 Questions but some of..the problems"Imay:bBSt:t)e'done (wlthout¥.::: . uslng a calculator. Note: Unless otherwise statéd,.'all of the follDwing should 'be assurried. 1 :. lilustrativè"figures are NOT¢necessarily drawn tc¥ scale:"

Paper 65 · ACT December 2008 · Form 67A · English Test

Source question 75. Refer to the source image.