SAT Algebra
Solving for x: 2x + 3 = 7
What is x=2?
This is the sum of the interior angles of a triangle.
What is 180 degrees?
I need ____ go ______ the store to buy ______ KitKat bars. I should get my partner something __________.
This is the correct form of to/too/two for each blank.
What is to, to, two, too?
Celebrated Tewa potter Maria Martinez (1887–1980) made her signature all-black ceramic vessels using a heating technique called reduction firing. This technique involves smothering the flame surrounding the clay vessel. _______ the vessel takes on a shiny, black hue.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) On the contrary, B) For example, C) Previously, D) As a result,
What is D?
Identify the error(s): After dinner we went to the park, and played soccer.
What is remove the comma?
If x-4=10, then this is the value of 2x.
What is 28?
A rectangular prism has a side length of 8cm and a width of 3cm. This is its area and perimeter.
What are area=24 and perimeter=22?
If I want to tell someone things I think would help them, they would say I am doing this...
(advice/advise)
What is advise?
A harpsichord may look just like a piano, but the difference between the two instruments is easy to hear. When a harpsichord’s keys are pressed, the strings inside the _______ are plucked, not struck.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) instrument:
B) instrument
C) instrument—
D) instrument,
What is B?
Identify the error(s): My brother who is a great cook made dinner.
What is "My brother, who is a great cook, made dinner."?
This is the simplified answer for 3(x+2) -2x.
This is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of 6 and 8.
What is 10?
The spark that makes something occur in SPACECAT.
What is exigence?
The following text is adapted from Jean Webster’s 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The narrator is a young college student writing letters detailing her weekly experiences.
[The college is] organizing the Freshman basket-ball team and there’s just a chance that I shall make it. I’m little of course, but terribly quick and wiry and tough. While the others are hopping about in the air, I can dodge under their feet and grab the ball.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
A) To compare basketball with other sports
B) To provide details of how to play basketball
C) To state how players will be chosen for the basketball team
D) To explain why the narrator thinks she might make the basketball team
What is D?
Rewrite this sentence to properly use a colon. You may add words to make this work!
My favorite colors are purple, gold, and black.
Example answers could include:
These are my favorite colors: purple, gold, and black.
If 5x - 2 = 3x + 10, then this is x.
What is x = 6?
The circumference of a circle is 10.6 π(pretend this is the pi symbol). This would be the radius of the same circle.
What is 5.3π?
Between proceed and precede, this one means to go forward.
What is proceed?
When they were first introduced to western Europe from Byzantium in the eleventh century, table forks were met with much resistance. The Bishop of Ostia, St. Peter Damian, condemned the eating utensils because he considered _______ dangerous and unnecessary luxury items.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) them B) this C) that D) it
What is A?
Fix this sentence in 2 different ways:
She is an excellent athlete; because she trains every day.
What are:
She is an excellent athlete; she trains every day.
AND
She is an excellent athlete because she trains every day.
If 2x2 - 8 = 0, then x equals this number(s).
What is x = 2 or x = -2
This is the area of a triangle with a base 10 and height 7.
What is 35?
The ___________ of water going over the wheel is the creation of electricity. This should _________ our electricity bill in a positive way!
affect/effect
What is effect, affect?
Julia Alvarez’s 1994 novel In the Time of the Butterflies, a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal _______ can serve as a starting point for those wanting to explore how the rule of dictator Rafael Trujillo has been represented in Dominican American literature.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) sisters, and
B) sisters and
C) sisters,
D) sisters
What is C?
Fix the sentence: The teachers lounge is closed.
What is "The teachers' lounge is closed?