SAT Practice Test 8, Section 5: Questions 6 - 10

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6. Correct answer: (A)

Given:
A machine mints coins at the rate of one coin per second
It does this for 10 hours each day

To find:
The number of days it will take the machine to mint 360,000 coins

Solution:
10 hours = 10 × 60 × 60 = 36,000 seconds

In one day, it produces 36,000 coins.

So, it would take 10 days to produce 360,000 coins

Answer: (A) 10

7. Correct answer: (C)

Given:
The average of x and 3x is 12

To find:
The value of x

Solution:

Answer: (C) 6

8. Correct answer: (C)

Given:
Some members on the chess club are on the swim team
No members of the swim team are 10 th graders

Solution:
There is no calculation here, only some logical thinking

The given conditions mean that if a member belongs to both the chess club and the swim team he could not be in the tenth grade.

Therefore, “Some members in the chess club are not tenth graders.”

Answer: (C) Some members in the chess club are not tenth graders

9. Correct answer: (D)

Given:
3x + n = x + 1

To find:
n in terms of x

Solution:
Topic(s): Isolate variable

3x + n = x + 1
n = x + 1 − 3x = 1 − 2x

Answer: 1 − 2x

10. Correct answer: (E)

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