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SAT Practice QuestionsFor May 27, 2010Mathematics - Standard Multiple Choice A 6-sided number cube, with faces numbered 1 through 6, is to be rolled twice. What is the probability that the number that comes up on the first roll will be less than the number that comes up on the second roll?
For May 26, 2010Writing > Improving Sentences Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. In just a couple of years, low-carbohydrate diets have accomplished what the government has failed to do in decades of trying: it has convinced the public of refined grains, that they are bad and whole grains are good.
For May 25, 2010Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. The alarm voiced by the committee investigating the incident had a ------- effect, for its dire predictions motivated people to take precautions that ------- an ecological disaster.
For May 24, 2010Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice If p is an odd integer, which of the following is an even integer?
For May 21, 2010Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice The price of For May 20, 2010Writing > Improving Sentences Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. Woody Guthrie wrote and adapted more than a thousand songs, many of them are about the struggles of workers and the poor in the United States. For May 19, 2010Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Eduardo Galeano’s novel consists of discrete vignettes, so the reader must supply the invisible ------- binding such apparently ------- parts. For May 18, 2010Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice If 22 x 3 x Q = 6, then Q = For May 17, 2010Writing > Identifying Sentence Errors The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. (a) It weaves across a strip of tropical land (b) where the Isthmus of Panama (c) narrows in the shape of a long flattened letter S, the Panama Canal (d) links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. (e) No error For May 14, 2010Writing > Improving Sentences Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. The well-preserved, 121-million-year-old fossilized bird embryo on display at the museum has several features that suggest that its young could move about and feed themselves very soon after they hatched. For May 13, 2010Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Drew's loss in the demanding cross-country race had ------- effect, weakening both his strength and his vitality. For May 12, 2010Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice If For May 11, 2010Writing > Identifying Sentence Errors The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. Although the number of books (a) written in African languages (b) are growing, many African writers (c) find a larger audience (d) for works written in Portuguese or English. (e) No error For May 10, 2010Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. The play, which features ------- mix of comedy, pathos, and music, was correctly described by one honest critic as a -------. For May 7, 2010Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Although the conference speakers disliked one another and might have been expected to ------- , it turned out that on several substantive issues they were in complete ------- and were able to avoid petty squabbling. For May 6, 2010Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 12. If the hundreds digit is 3 times the tens digit and the tens digit is 1/2 the units digit, what is the tens digit of the number? For May 5, 2010Writing > Identifying Sentence Errors The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. (a) Modern vegetable farming ranges from small-scale, low-technology production and local sale (b) and vast commercial operations (c) that utilize the (d) latest advances in automation and technology. (e) No error For May 4, 2010Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Those scholars who believe that the true author of the poem died in 1812 consider the authenticity of this particular manuscript ------- because it includes references to events that occurred in 1818. For May 3, 2010Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice A list of 100 integers has the property that the average (arithmetic mean), a, of the integers is greater than the median, m, of the integers. Which of the following must be true? I. More of these integers are greater than a than are less than a. SAT Question of the Day courtesy of CollegeBoard. |
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Howard County Public School System Created by Randi Trzesinski 11 September 2009. Modified 12 November 2010. |
pounds of apples is 
dollars. If the apples weigh an average of 
pound for every 
apples, which of the following is the average price, in cents, of a dozen such apples?
and 
, then 
exceeds 
by
