Practice Test 1 - ISEE Lower Level Mathematics Achievement

20 questions. Answer them in any order, then submit to see your score and every explanation.

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1. Art project: Which polygon has four sides and four angles?
2. A bookshelf contains four books with the following weights: Book A is 2 pounds, Book B is 1.85 pounds, Book C is 2.1 pounds, and Book D is 1.9 pounds. Which is the third heaviest book?
3. The value of x is found by solving 4x - 3 = 17. The value of y is found by solving 12 = 2y + 6. What is the value of x + y?
4. David can solve 16 math problems in 8 minutes. Working at the same constant rate, how many math problems can he solve in 20 minutes?
5. A spinner has 10 equal sections: 5 red, 3 blue, 2 green. If you spin once, what is the probability of green? Give your answer in simplest form.
6. A hike is $15$ miles. Sam walks $5$ miles. What value of $x$ makes $5 + x = 15$ true?
7. A polygon is drawn with three sides. Two of the sides have a length of 5 inches, and the third side has a length of 8 inches. What is the best name for this polygon?
8. A video game company sold six million, twenty thousand, three hundred copies of its most popular game. How is this number written in standard form?
9. To get to his grandmother's house, David has to travel $25\frac{1}{2}$ miles. He rode his bike for $7\frac{1}{4}$ miles and then took a bus for $15\frac{1}{3}$ miles. How much farther does he need to travel?
10. A fruit basket contains 6 apples, 5 bananas, and 4 oranges. If one piece of fruit is chosen at random, what is the probability that it is not a banana?
11. Jamal is paid $12 per hour for raking leaves. He wants to buy a video game that costs $75. If he has already saved $27, how many hours must he work to afford the game?
12. The area of a triangular sail is 30 square feet. If the base of the sail measures 10 feet, what is the height of the sail?
13. Daily high temperatures are: 60, 62, 60, 58, 60, 63, 61, 60. Identify the mode of the data set presented.
14. In an arithmetic sequence, the first term is 14 and the fourth term is 44. What is the second term?
15. A square has a side length of 8 cm. A rectangle has a length of 10 cm and a width of 5 cm. What is the difference between the perimeter of the square and the perimeter of the rectangle?
16. Three friends compare how far they live from school. Aiden lives 0.6 miles away. Bella lives $\frac{3}{4}$ of a mile away. Carlos lives $\frac{5}{8}$ of a mile away. Which statement correctly compares their distances?
17. A pattern is made of tiles. The sequence of the number of tiles in the first six designs is 5, 9, 13, $\underline{\hspace{2em}}$, 21, 25. What is the number of tiles in the missing design?
18. In a pie-eating contest, the winner is the person who consumes the greatest weight of pie. Jamal ate 3.8 pounds, Kelly ate 3.75 pounds, Ben ate 3.805 pounds, and Maria ate 3.57 pounds. Who won the silver medal, which is awarded for second place?
19. A rectangular photograph is 7 inches wide and 9 inches tall. It is placed in a frame that adds a border of 2 inches to every side. What is the perimeter of the outside edge of the framed photograph?
20. The drive from Boston to Denver is 1,972 miles. The Chen family drove 455 miles on the first day and 510 miles on the second day. How many miles do they still have to drive?

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