1) If 12g of cornstarch fills one cup, approximately how many cups can 50 kg of cornstarch fill? Submit

2) 4x is to 6y as 12xy is to: Submit

3) 85% of what number is 17/8? Submit

4) If (3⁷ˣ)(81) = 3ⁿ, where x and n are integers, what is the value of n in terms of x? Submit

5) In the x-y plane, the points (t,0) and (0,p) are on a line whose equation is y=(1/3)x+7
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Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following data.




6) What is the median of percent values representing the manufacturing price as a percent of market value of the various 7 goods on the chart? Submit

7) If the market value of a metal baseball bat was $145.95, approximately what was the metal baseball bat’s manufacturing price according to the chart? Round to the nearest hundredth if necessary. Submit

Porch Memories

By Federica Soletta; D. Graham Burnett, Series Editor

In the final stanza of his remarkable poem “Sunday Morning” (1923), Wallace Stevens refers to Jerusalem (and more specifically the tomb of Christ) as, possibly, “the porch of spirits lingering”. It is such a strange formula that it has endured: the “porch of spirits”, the place where they “linger” — this is any portal or threshold linking (and also separating) human beings from whatever gods or angels there might be. A lovely notion. But why did Stevens choose that homely word, and that most quotidian of sites: the porch? A “portico” (whence the word derives) is something grand. But a “porch”? It is the postage-stamp façade of a temple (or is it a tomb?) pasted in miniature upon our domestic architecture. In a secular age, as Stevens understood so well, this is where our spirits, whatever they may be, are left to linger.

1) What does the author mean by “It is such a strange formula that it has endured:” in the second sentence? Submit

2) What was the primary purpose of this passage? Submit

1) Recordings of personal and quoted narratives weaving real and fictitious memories of photographs of families posing in front of their homes, portraying the American Dream as that dream evolved throughout the past two hundred years, seem to ________________ the images allowing viewers to hear stories behind photographs without captions. Submit

2) The image was astonishing, and it was so different from the other images– ________________—with elaborate, hyper-complex detail and texture created with an array of media from edge to edge of the canvas. Submit

1) Although many considered his comments embarrassing, he carried on ________________ with his discussion. Submit

2) Some ecological psychologists argue that communication among animals, such as altruistic warning calls when a predator is spotted is, evolutionarily speaking, merely an ________________ response and behavior—instinctive rather than learned. Submit