Section basics
On the day of
Fundamentals
Useful terminology
Mixed bag
100
The only section on ACT with five multiple-choice answer choices.
What is the Math Test/Section?
100
The process of elimination will help you do this type of guessing to improve your raw score.
What is Educated Guessing?
100
This is a statement that two ratios are equivalent. Ex. a/b=c/d.
What is a proportion?
100
The middle value of a group of numbers when the numbers are arranged sequentially. (or the average of the two middle values if there is an even number of values in the group).
What is the Median?
100
A positive integer greater than 1 that can only be divided by 1 and itself. 1 and 0 are not this kind of numbers.
What is a prime number?
200
Pre-Algebra, Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Coordinate Geometry, Plane Geometry and Trigonometry.
What are the content areas in the Math Test on the ACT?
200
With this kind of calculator, you can deal with exponents, work with fractions, graph various basic functions and convert linear equations into the form mx+b.
What is a graphing calculator?
200
This value represents the distance on the number line between a number and zero. It's always a positive value.
What is the absolute value of a number?
200
This way of writing quantities uses powers of 10 to express very large and very small numbers in a more concise form.
What is Scientific Notation?
200

This angle pair creates a straight line when added together.

What are supplementary angles?

300

The length of the ACT Math Test.

What is 50 minutes?

300

Don't waste time reading these on the day of the test. Memorize these as they will remain the same from one ACT to another. Or they will be read to you.

What are Instructions?

300
This is the reverse of exponent and can be expressed using a radical sign or a fractional exponent.
What is the root of a number?
300
The value, or values, that appears most frequently in a given list of numbers.
What is Mode?
300
In this geometric figure, two sides out of three are equal and the two angles opposite those sides are equal.
What is an Isosceles Triangle?
400

Number of multiple-choice questions on the Math Test.

What is 45?

400

If you don't know the answer, what should you do?

What is taking an educated guess and moving on?

400

Although similar triangles will have the same shape, they don't need to have the same size. For two triangles to be similar, their corresponding angles are equal, and their corresponding sides are what?

What is proportional?

400

A function with a degree of 2.

What is a quadratic function?

400

The sine of one angle is what to the cosine of the opposite angle?

What is congruent?

500

Math is only one of how many sections on the ACT.

What is four?

500

Get enough sleep, eat a good breakfast, be on time, and come prepared with everything you will need.

What is "How to do your best on the day of the ACT?"

500
These triangles are equal in size and shape and their corresponding sides and angles are equal.
What are congruent triangles?
500

Give two names for the place on a graph where a parabola crosses the x-axis.

What is a solution, x-intercept, or root?

500
Number of ways an event can happen divided by the number of possible outcomes.
What is the probability (of an event happening)?
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