Math
An accountant is going to pay the following four bills:
Bill: Amount:
W $27.10
X $261.00
Y $2.80
Z $27.20
The accountant will pay the bills in order from smallest to largest. In what order will he pay them?
A. W, X, Z, Y C. Y, X, W, Z
B. X, W, Z, Y D. Y, W, Z, X
D. Y, W, Z, X Compare the numbers and list in order from smallest to largest: $,2.80, $27.10, $27.20, $261.00.
Type: Characteristics:
Annual Completes life cycle in one growing season
Bienniel Completes life cycle in two growing seasons; flowers during the second year.
Perennial Lives for years and flowers each year.
Tender Sensitive to cold (can be annual, biennial, or perennial)
Hardy Can withstand frosts (can be annual, biennial)
Marion has little interest in or time for gardening, yet she would like to have flowers in her front yard. Which of the following types of plants would probably give her the most flowers for the least effort?
A. Annuals
B. Biennials
C. Tender Plants
D. Hardy Perennials
D. Hardy Perennials
Hardy perennials withstand frost, so they are more likely to survive than tender plants. Perennials come up and flower for many years. Therefore hardy perennials are likely to provide the most flowers with the least effort on the gardener's part.
This ocean borders the East Coast of the United States
A. Indian
B. Pacific
C. Atlantic
D. Persian Gulf
C. What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The difference between a non-fiction piece of literature and a fiction piece of literature is this
A. non fiction is made up and fiction of factual
B. non fiction is factual and fiction is made up
C. they are both the same thing
D. Fiction was written a long time ago and non fiction more recently
B. What is non-fiction is factual and fiction is made up?
A child in your child's class have been diagnosed with strep throat.
Which correction should be made to this sentence?
A.) replace your with you're
B.) change child's to children
C.) insert comma after class
D.) change have to has
D. change have to has. The third person singular subject student's requires the verb form has.
Fifteen percent of the workers at Nationwide Industries earn minimum wage. If 24 workers earn minimum wage, how many total workers are there are nationwide Industries?
A. 4
B. 36
C. 160
D. 360
C. 160 To solve, set up a ratio
15%= 15/100. Set that equal to the ratio of employees who make minimum wage to the total number of employees, and use a variable to represent the total number of employees.
15/100=24/X
cross multiply 24X100=2400
Divide 2400/15= 160
Role Description
Producer A green plant, which produces its own food using energy from sunlight.
Herbivore An animal that gets nutrients by eating plants
Carnivore An animal that gets nutrients by eating other animals
Omnivore An animals that gets nutrients by eating both plants and animals.
Decomposer An organism that gets nutrients from feeding on dead organisms and returns nutrients to the soil in the process.
Earthworms break down large pieces of dead organic material in the soil. What role do earthworms play in the food chain?
A. They are producers
B. They are herbivores.
C. They are carnivores.
D. They are decomposers.
D. They are decomposers. Since earthworms feed on dead organic matter, which comes from dead organisms, they must be decomposers.
This Ocean borders the West Coast of the United States
A. Pacific
B. Mediterranean
C. Atlantic
D. Arctic
A. What is the Pacific Ocean?
The two women were pen pals for a very long time. Their correspondence lasted over 30 years. In this sentence correspondence means?
A. Riding a bicycle
B. Friendship
C. Celebrating
D. letter writing
D. What is letter writing?
When writing an essay be sure to include which of the following?
A.) Who?
B.) What?
C.) Where?
D.) Why?
E.) When?
F.) How?
G.) All of the above!
To write a comprehensive essay you will want to include all of the elements listed above.
A local library shows movies on Thursday evenings. The library administrator has chosen the next six movies he will show, but has not decided in which order to show them. How may possible orderings of the six movies are there?
A. 21
B. 36
C. 720
D. 1012
C. 720 To find out how many possible orderings, or sequences, of six items are possible, multiply. There are six possibilities for the first movie. Then after the first movie has been chosen, there are five possibilities for the second movie, then four for the third movie, and so on:
6X5X4X3X2X1= 720
Which of the following is among the body's first barriers against germs?
A. the immune system
B. Antibiotics
C. Antibodies
D. The skin
D. The skin
The skin is one of the first defenses against germs.
To boycott means this
A. buy more goods
B. protesting goods
C. to move to another country
D. to get a job
B. What is protesting goods
This is the score needed to pass each section of the TASC
A. 350
B. 250
C. 500
D. 800
C. What is 500?
They may become anxious and depressed or they may fail to live up to their obligations, causing others to stop trusting them.
Which is the best way to write the portion of the sentence which includes depressed or they?
A.) depressed, or they
B.) depressed, they
C.) depressed. And they
D.) depressed and they
A. depressed, or they A comma should precede a coordinating conjunction that joins independent clauses.
A drawing of a company logo is 4 inches wide and 5 inches long. If the drawing is enlarged so that it is 12.5 inches long, and the original proportions remain unchanged, how many inches wide will the enlarged drawing be?
A. 7.5
B. 10
C. 15.625
D. 20
B.10
Write a proportion and solve.
4/5=X/12.5
Cross multiply and divide.
4 X 12.5/5= 50/5= 10
Each Evening, Sara has a glass of wine. If there is no wine in the house, she feels a strong urge to get some, although she feels no ill effects if she does not. What is Sara's relationship to alcohol?
A. Addiction
B. physical dependence
C. habituation
D. withdrawal
c. habituation
Although Sara feels an urge to drink wine, she feels no ill effect if she does not; this indicates she is habituated to alcohol.
A free state is this
A. A state where slavery was allowed
B. A state with no laws
C. A state where a major battle occurred
D. A state where slavery was not allowed
D. What is a state where slavery was not allowed
The number of sections included on the TASC
A. 10
B. 4
C. 5
D. 3 plus a bonus section
C. What is 5? Math, Science, Social Studies, Reading, and Writing.
People often make impulse buys at Pet Stores just because they see an adorable puppy or kitten.
Which correction should be made?
A.) change buys to bys
B.) change Pet Stores to pet stores
C.) insert a comma before because
D.) insert a comma before or
B. Change Pet Stores to pet stores as this term is not capitalized as it is not the name of a store; it is just a type of store.
Which of the following equations defines the line that connects the two points (2,7) and (5,13)?
A. y=3x + 2
B. y=2x + 3
C. x= 3y + 2
D. x = 2y + 3
B. y = 2x + 3
The linear equation that connects two points can be represented with the slope intercept formula y=mx+b.
7=2 X 2 + 3
13=5 X 2+3
Proteins which perform a variety of functions, are built from chains of________.
A. amino acids
B. RNA
C. Codons
D. Enzymes
A. Proteins are composed of chains of amino acids.
The word suffrage means?
A. The right to bear arms
B. The right to vote
C. The right to privacy
D. The right to freedom of expression
B. The right to vote.
TASC stands for
A. Test At State Corrections
B. Test Assessing Self Calculations
C. Test At Secondary Concourse
D. Test Assessing Secondary Completion
D. Test Assessing Secondary Completion
There's several factors to consider when selecting a pet.
A.) change There's to there are
B.) insert a comma after factors
C.) replace to with too
D.) insert a comma after consider
A. Change There's to There are. the verb agrees with the subject, several factors, which is plural.