9. How many people surveyed had read books in the last month? a. 325 b. 700 c. 1,800 d. 1,825 e. 2,175 10. A certain university has 36,042 total students. Of these students, 16,534 are male. Approximately how many more women attend the university than men? a. 1,500 b. 2,000 c. 3,000 d. 4,000 e. 4,500 11. A rectangular tumbling mat for a gym class is 5 feet wide and 7 feet long. What is the area of the mat? a. 12 square feet b. 22 square feet c. 24 square feet d. 35 square feet e. 42 square feet 12. A machine on a production line produces parts that are not acceptable by company standards 4% of the time. If the machine produces 500 parts, how many will be defective? a. 4 b. 8 c. 10 d. 16 e. 20 13. A certain congressional district has about 490,000 people living in it. The largest city in the area has 98,000 citizens. Which most accurately portrays the portion of the population made up by the city in the district? a. ᎏ 1 5 ᎏ b. ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ c. ᎏ 2 9 ᎏ d. ᎏ 3 4 ᎏ e. ᎏ 4 5 ᎏ 14. A recipe calls for 1 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ cups of flour. If Larry wants to make 2 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ times the recipe, how much flour does he need? a. 2 ᎏ 3 4 ᎏ b. 3 ᎏ 1 8 ᎏ c. 3 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ d. 3 ᎏ 5 8 ᎏ e. 4 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ 15. Thirty percent of the high school is involved in athletics. If 15% of the athletes play football, what percentage of the whole school plays football? a. 4.5% b. 9.0% c. 15% d. 30% e. 45% 16. Twenty percent of the people at a restaurant selected the dinner special. If 40 people did not select the special, how many people are eating at the restaurant? a. 10 b. 20 c. 40 d. 50 e. 60 –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 173 17. John’s Market sells milk for $2.24 per gallon. Food Supply sells the same milk for $2.08 per gallon. If Mitzi buys 2 gallons of milk at Food Supply instead of John’s, how much will she save? a. $0.12 b. $0.14 c. $0.32 d. $0.38 e. $0.42 18. Fifty-four students are to be separated into six groups of equal size. How many students are in each group? a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 d. 11 e. 12 Use the information below to answer question 19. Textbooks are to be ordered in the following quantities: History: 24 books at $20 each Math: 20 books at $30 each Science: 15 books at $25 each 19. What is the total cost of the textbooks? a. $1455 b. $1495 c. $1500 d. $1510 e. $1550 20. A small town emergency room admits a patient on August 3 at 10:42 P.M. and another patient at 1:19 A.M. on August 4. How much time has elapsed between admissions? a. 1 hour 19 minutes b. 1 hour 37 minutes c. 2 hours 23 minutes d. 2 hours 37 minutes e. 3 hours 23 minutes 21. Nationwide, in one year there were about 21,500 residential fires associated with furniture. Of these, 11,350 were caused by smoking materials. About what percent of the residential fires were smoking related? a. 47% b. 49% c. 50% d. 51% e. 53% 22. Jerry was ᎏ 1 3 ᎏ as young as his grandfather 15 years ago. If the sum of their ages is 110, how old is Jerry’s grandfather? a. 80 b. 75 c. 65 d. 60 e. 50 23. Solve for x in the following equation: ᎏ 1 3 ᎏ x + 3 = 8. a. 33 b. 15 c. 11 d. 3 e. ᎏ 1 3 1 ᎏ –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 174 Use the diagram below to answer question 24. 24. What is the perimeter of the figure shown above? a. 17 b. 20 c. 30 d. 40 e. 60 Use the diagram below to answer question 25. 25. In the diagram above, if angle 1 is 30 degrees, and angle 2 is a right angle, what is the measure of angle 5? a. 30 degrees b. 60 degrees c. 120 degrees d. 140 degrees e. 150 degrees Use the diagram below to answer question 26. 26. In the diagram, a half-circle is laid adjacent to a triangle. What is the total area of the shape, if the radius of the half-circle is 3 and the height of the triangle is 4? a. 6(π + 4) b. 6π + 12 c. 6π + 24 d. ᎏ 9 2 π ᎏ + 12 e. ᎏ 9 2 ᎏ π+ 24 Use the table below to answer question 27. DISTANCE TRAVELED FROM CHICAGO WITH RESPECT TO TIME Time Distance from Chicago (hours) (miles) 160 2120 3180 4240 27. A train moving at a constant speed leaves Chicago for Los Angeles at time t = 0. If Los Angeles is 2,000 miles from Chicago, which of the following equations describes the distance from Los Angeles at any time t? a. D(t) = 60t − 2,000 b. D(t) = 60t c. D(t) = 2,000 − 60t d. D(t) = ᎏ 2 6 ,0 0 0 t 0 ᎏ e. D(t) = 2,000 + 60t –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 175 Use the table and the information below to answer question 28. Felipe is planning to get an Internet service in order to have access to the World Wide Web. Two service providers, A and B, offer different rates as shown below. INTERNET SERVICE RATES Free Base Hourly Provider Hours Charge Charge A 17.5 $20.00 $1.00 B 20 $20.00 $1.50 28. If Felipe plans on using 25 hours of Internet service per month, which of the following state- ments is true? a. Provider A will be cheaper. b. Provider B will be cheaper. c. The answer cannot be determined from the information given. d. The answer cannot be determined but could be if no hours were free. e. The providers will cost the same per month. 29. Anne has two containers for water: a rectangular plastic box with a base of 16 square inches, and a cylindrical container with a radius of 2 inches and a height of 9 inches. If the rectangular box is filled with water 9 inches from the bottom, and Anne pours the water into the cylinder without spilling, which of the following will be true? a. The cylinder will overflow. b. The cylinder will be exactly full. c. The cylinder will be filled to an approximate level of 10 inches. d. The cylinder will be filled to an approximate level of 8 inches e. The cylinder will be filled to an approximate level of 6 inches. Use the information below to answer question 30. Roger, Lucy, Mike, and Samantha are cousins. They all practice unique sports: One enjoys skiing, one enjoys fishing, one enjoys tennis, and one enjoys volleyball. Use the statements below to answer the question that follows. I. The cousin who fishes is female. II. Roger and Lucy hate sports with balls. III. Samantha is older than the cousin who fishes. 30. Who likes to fish? a. Roger b. Mike c. Samantha d. Lucy e. The answer cannot be determined from the information given. 31. Triangles RST and MNO are similar. What is the length of line segment MO? a. 5 cm b. 10 cm c. 20 cm d. 32 cm e. 40 cm 32. Which number sentence is true? a. 4.3 < 0.43 b. 0.43 < 0.043 c. 0.0043 > 0.43 d. 0.00043 > 0.043 e. 0.043 > 0.0043 T SR M 4 cm N O 2 cm 5 cm 4 cm 8 cm –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 176 33. Which of the following means 5n + 7 = 17? a. 7 more than 5 times a number is 17 b. 5 more than 7 times a number is 17 c. 7 less than 5 times a number is 17 d. 12 times a number is 17 e. 17 divided by a number is 5 Use the diagram to answer item 34. 34. In the diagram, lines a, b, and c intersect at point O. Which of the following are NOT adjacent angles? a. Є1 and Є6 b. Є1 and Є4 c. Є4 and Є5 d. Є2 and Є3 e. All of the angles are adjacent. 35. What is the value of y when x = 3 and y = 5 + 4x? a. 6 b. 9 c. 12 d. 17 e. 20 36. The radius of a circle is 13. What is the approxi- mate area of the circle? a. 81.64 b. 530.66 c. 1,666.27 d. 169 e. 175.66 Use the diagram to answer item 37. 37. If the two triangles in the diagram are similar, with angle A equal to angle D, what is the perimeter of triangle DEF? a. 12 b. 21 c. 22.5 d. 24.75 e. 25.0 38. Which of these angle measures form a right triangle? a. 45 degrees, 50 degrees, 85 degrees b. 40 degrees, 40 degrees, 100 degrees c. 20 degrees, 30 degrees, 130 degrees d. 40 degrees, 40 degrees, 40 degrees e. 40 degrees, 50 degrees, 90 degrees 39. What is another way to write 3͙12 ෆ ? a. 12͙3 ෆ b. 6͙3 ෆ c. 2͙10 ෆ d. 18 e. 36 2 4 3 A B C F E D 5 b a 6 1 23 O 4 5 c –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 177 40. Third grade student Stephanie Wink goes to the school nurse’s office, where her temperature is found to be 98 degrees Fahrenheit. What is her temperature in degrees Celsius? C = ᎏ 5 9 ᎏ (F − 32) a. 35.8 b. 36.7 c. 37.6 d. 31.1 e. 22.4 41. Three high schools can serve a town of 105,000 people. How many people could be served by 4 high schools? a. 130,000 b. 135,000 c. 140,000 d. 145,000 e. 150,000 42. A recipe serves four people and calls for 1 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ cups of broth. If you want to serve six people, how much broth do you need? a. 2 cups b. 2 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ cups c. 2 ᎏ 1 3 ᎏ cups d. 2 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ cups e. 2 ᎏ 3 4 ᎏ cups 43. Plattville is 80 miles west and 60 miles north of Quincy. How long is a direct route from Plattville to Quincy? a. 100 miles b. 110 miles c. 120 miles d. 140 miles e. 160 miles 44. Which of the following brands is the least expensive? Brand W X Y Z Price 0.21 0.48 0.56 0.96 Weight in ounces 6 15 20 32 a. W b. X c. Y d. Z e. They are equal in price. 45. A salesman drives 2,052 miles in 6 days, stopping at 2 towns each day. How many miles does he average between stops? a. 171 b. 342 c. 513 d. 684 e. 1,026 46. A school cafeteria manager spends $540 on sil- verware. If a place setting includes 1 knife, 1 fork, and 2 spoons, how many place settings did the manager buy? a. 90 b. 108 c. 135 d. 180 e. There is not enough information to solve this problem. 47. An office uses 2 dozen pencils and 3 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ reams of paper each week. If pencils cost 5 cents each and a ream of paper costs $7.50, how much does it cost to supply the office for a week? a. $7.55 b. $12.20 c. $26.25 d. $27.45 e. $38.25 –CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1– 178 . the same milk for $2. 08 per gallon. If Mitzi buys 2 gallons of milk at Food Supply instead of John’s, how much will she save? a. $0.12 b. $0.14 c. $0.32 d. $0. 38 e. $0.42 18. Fifty-four students. many will be defective? a. 4 b. 8 c. 10 d. 16 e. 20 13. A certain congressional district has about 490,000 people living in it. The largest city in the area has 98, 000 citizens. Which most accurately portrays. make 2 ᎏ 1 2 ᎏ times the recipe, how much flour does he need? a. 2 ᎏ 3 4 ᎏ b. 3 ᎏ 1 8 ᎏ c. 3 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ d. 3 ᎏ 5 8 ᎏ e. 4 ᎏ 1 4 ᎏ 15. Thirty percent of the high school is involved in athletics. If