Grade 12 Mathematics Sample Questions
Grade 12 Mathematics Sample Questions
Sample Questions
This booklet contains sample Grade 12 Mathematics items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP). Additional items can be accessed at www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrls.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES),
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
This Grade 12 Mathematics Sample Questions Booklet and the corresponding answer booklet are posted at
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NAEP GRADE 12 MATHEMATICS
CONTENTS
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 4
NAEP GRADE 12 NUMBER PROPERTIES AND OPERATIONS.............................................................................. 5
Question 1 - Multiply a 3-digit number by a decimal number ............................................................................. 5
Question 2 - Estimate amount of time for problem in context ............................................................................ 5
Question 3 - Find the cost of mailing a letter, based on its weight ...................................................................... 5
Question 4 - Calculate an expected value, given a percentage ............................................................................ 6
Question 5 - Given the scale, determine the length of a side .............................................................................. 6
Question 6 - Identify effect of changing certain digits on a number’s value........................................................ 7
Question 7 - Estimate property value, given tax rate and amount ...................................................................... 7
Question 8 - Determine the remainder in an algebraic setting ............................................................................ 7
Question 9 - Determine a weight of a letter given mailing cost ........................................................................... 8
Question 10 - Solve a problem involving fractions ............................................................................................... 8
Question 11 - Determine proportional enlargement of photograph ................................................................... 8
NAEP GRADE 12 ALGEBRA ............................................................................................................................. 9
Question 1 - Determine a nonequivalent expression ........................................................................................... 9
Question 2 - Solve problem involving numerical sequence ................................................................................. 9
Question 3 - Subtract rational expressions........................................................................................................... 9
Question 4 - Solve a system of linear equations................................................................................................. 10
Question 5 - Find annual rate of population growth .......................................................................................... 10
Question 6 - Interpret characteristics of graph in a context .............................................................................. 10
NAEP GRADE 12 MEASUREMENT ................................................................................................................. 12
Question 1 - Compare units of volume ............................................................................................................... 12
Question 2 - Solve problem involving area in context ........................................................................................ 12
Question 3 - Calculate the measure of an angle in a triangle............................................................................. 12
Question 4 - Find actual dimensions of room drawn to scale ............................................................................ 13
Question 5 - Identify a 90-degree angle in a figure ............................................................................................ 13
Question 6 - Find the length of the sides of a square ......................................................................................... 14
Question 7 - Solve a problem using trigonometry .............................................................................................. 14
Question 8 - Find range for area given precision of linear measurements ........................................................ 14
Question 9 - Use trigonometry to find height of object ..................................................................................... 15
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NAEP GRADE 12 MATHEMATICS CONTENTS, continued
Question 10 - Solve a multi-step problem with a rectangle and sphere ............................................................ 16
NAEP GRADE 12 GEOMETRY ........................................................................................................................ 17
Question 1 - Find the missing dimension of a room ........................................................................................... 17
Question 2 - Find the measure of angle between streets .................................................................................. 17
Question 3 - Find length of side in a 30-60-90 triangle ...................................................................................... 18
Question 4 - Analyze properties of quadrilateral inscribed in circle .................................................................. 18
Question 5 - Determine which triangle is not a 30-60-90 right traingle............................................................. 19
Question 6 - Identify the 3-D figure resulting from folding paper...................................................................... 20
Question 7 - Prove that given figure is a parallelogram ..................................................................................... 20
Question 8 - Perform multiple transformations of segment in xy-plane ........................................................... 21
NAEP GRADE 12 DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY..................................................................................... 22
Question 1 - Solve problem using data in a table ............................................................................................... 22
Question 2 - Analyze correlations of two data sets in a scatterplot................................................................... 23
Question 3 - Identify linear equation that best fits data in a scatterplot ........................................................... 24
Question 4 - Identify appropriate method for selecting random sample .......................................................... 25
Question 5 - Make a prediction based on data in scatterplot ............................................................................ 25
Question 6 - Calculate probability of indepenent events ................................................................................... 26
Question 7 - Determine the type of graph to best represent a situation........................................................... 26
Question 8 - Determine conditional probablity from two-way table ................................................................. 27
Question 9 - Solve a data-related problem and justify the answer .................................................................... 27
Question 10 - Use survey results to make an inference ..................................................................................... 28
Question 11 - Solve a problem involving color patterns .................................................................................... 28
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Introduction
The sample items included in this document are taken from previously administered, publicly released
Grade 12 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Mathematics assessments. The answers
to the sample items are included in a companion document. For the multiple-choice questions, the
correct answers (indicated by an asterisk) and the distracters; the percentage of the Florida’s or the
nation’s responses to each of the possible answers; and the Description, Difficulty, and Mathematics
Practice of each item are provided. Score descriptors are shown for short- and extended-constructed
response items. Grade 12 Mathematics state-level results are only available for 2009, but will also be
available for 2013. All released NAEP items and sample responses can be found in the NAEP Questions
Tool (NQT) at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrlsx/default.aspx.
The NQT is an interactive tool containing over 2,000 released questions from NAEP assessments in all
NAEP subject areas. The questions are an example of what NAEP asks students on the assessments and
can be used as a supplement to classroom instruction. Also available are the scoring rubrics; sample
student responses; and scoring results by subject, grade, item type, difficulty, content classification,
framework, year, and key words.
For more information about NAEP results, go to the NAEP Data Explorer (NDE) at
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/. The NDE is an interactive tool that provides access to
a wide variety of data about what students know and can do, as well as demographic and contextual
factors that may affect their performance. The NDE produces charts, customized tables, and graphics
based on NAEP results by year and jurisdiction; significance between jurisdictions, within variables, and
across years; and gap analyses between jurisdictions or across years and between groups, between
years, and between groups and years.
Additional information about the knowledge and skills the mathematics assessment is designed to
measure can be found in the 2011 Mathematics Framework,
http://www.nagb.org/publications/frameworks/math-2011-framework.pdf. The current NAEP
Mathematics Framework guided the development of all Mathematics assessments since 2005. The
previous NAEP Mathematics Framework guided the development of the mathematics assessments
between 1990 and 2003.
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NAEP GRADE 12 NUMBER PROPERTIES AND OPERATIONS
How much would it cost to mail a letter that weighs 2.7 ounces?
a. 65 cents
b. 76 cents
c. 87 cents
d. 98 cents
e. 1 dollar and 9 cents
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Question 4, Calculate an expected value, given a percentage
Vanessa’s Vans finds that about 40% of the time, a person who makes an advance reservation for
transportation does not keep the reservation. Therefore, for each of their 10-passenger vans, Vanessa’s
Vans schedules 13 persons on the basis of advance reservations.
Based on the information above, about how many riders out of the 13 scheduled would not keep their
reservation?
a. 1
b. 3
c. 5
d. 7
e. 9
a. 3.0 in
b. 3.6 in
c. 5.6 in
d. 7.5 in
e. 12.0 in
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Question 6, Identify effect of changing certain digits on a number’s value
If the digit in the tens place of 37,241 is increased by one and the digit in the thousands place is
decreased by one, how has the number been changed?
a. The number has been decreased by 990
b. The number has been decreased by 1,000
c. The number has been decreased by 1,010
d. The number has been increased by 10
e. The number has been increased by 1,010
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Question 9, Determine a weight of a letter given mailing cost
The cost to mail a first-class letter is 43 cents for the first ounce. Each additional ounce costs 22 cents.
(Fractions of an ounce are rounded up to the next whole ounce.)
What is a possible weight for a first-class letter that costs $1.31 to mail? Show your work.
Answer: ______________________________
Answer: ___________________________
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NAEP GRADE 12 ALGEBRA
a.
b.
c.
d.
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Question 4, Solve a system of linear equations
Answer: ____________________
b. In 2001 the population was 100,000. What was the annual rate of population increase?
Answer: ____________________
The graph above shows distance versus time for a race between runners A and B. The race is already in
progress, and the graph shows only the portion of the race that occurred after 11 A.M.
The table on the next page lists several characteristics of the graph. Interpret these characteristics in
terms of what happened during this portion of the race. Include times and distances to support your
interpretation. (A sample interpretation of the y-intercepts is given in the table.)
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Question 6, NAEP Grade 12 Algebra, continued
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NAEP GRADE 12 MEASUREMENT
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Question 4, Find actual dimensions of room drawn to scale
A scale drawing of a rectangular room is 5 inches by 3 inches. If 1 inch on this scale drawing represents 3
feet, what area the dimensions of the room?
a. 5 feet by 3 feet
b. 5 feet by 9 feet
c. 15 feet by 3 feet
d. 15 feet by 5 feet
e. 15 feet by 9 feet
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Question 6, Find the length of the sides of a square
If a 2 by 18 rectangle has the same area as a square, what is the length of a side of the square?
a. 4
b. 6
c. 8
d. 10
e. 12
Of the following intervals, which is the smallest interval that contains all possible values of the area of
the room?
a. Between 191.5 and 192.5 square feet
b. Between 191 and 193 square feet
c. Between 176 and 206 square feet
d. Between 178 and 207 square feet
e. Between 165 and 221 square feet
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Question 9, Use trigonometry to find height of object
On level ground from a distance of 200 feet, the angle of elevation to the top of a building is 21˚, as
shown in the figure below. What is the height of the building, to the nearest foot?
a. 72
b. 77
c. 187
d. 201
e. 521
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Question 10, Solve a multi-step problem with a rectangle and sphere
A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide.
(a) If x represents the width of the rectangle, what represents the length?
Answer: ___________________________
Answer: ___________________________
(c) The radius of a sphere is 2 inches. What is the surface area of this sphere, in square inches?
Round your answer to the nearest tenth. (Surface area of sphere .)
Answer: ___________________________
(d) If the area of the rectangle from part (b) is equal to the sphere from part (c), what would be
the dimensions of the rectangle? Round your answers to the nearest inch.
Answer: ___________________________
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NAEP GRADE 12 GEOMETRY
What is the length, in feet, of the side whose dimension is not given in the diagram?
a. 12
b. 24
c. 30
d. 36
e. 40
a. 70
b. 110
c. 120
d. 130
e. 140
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Question 3, Find length of side in a 30-60-90 triangle
What is the value of h in the figure below?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
a.
b.
c. is a right angle
d. is a diameter of circle O
e. is a diameter of circle O
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Question 5, Determine which triangle is not a 30-60-90 right angle
Which of the right triangles below could NOT be a 30° - 60° - 90° triangle?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
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Question 6, Identify the 3-D figure resulting from folding paper
The figure below is folded on the dotted lines so that all the points labeled P touch each other, what
three-dimensional figure will result?
Answer:__________________________
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Question 8, Perform multiple transformations of segment in xy-plane
Perform the following two transformations on the graph below. After each transformation, draw the
resulting image of segment PQ.
1. Rotate the segment 90˚ counterclockwise about point P. Label the resulting segment with
a 1.
2. Reflect the segment you drew in part (1) across the x – axis. Label the resulting segment with
a 2.
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NAEP GRADE 12 DATA ANALYSIS and PROBABILITY
a. City A
b. City B
c. City C
d. City D
e. City E
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Question 2, Analyze correlations of two data sets in a scatterplot
The scatterplot below shows data for groups R and S. Which of the following statements is true about
the correlation between the x and y values of group R and the correlation between the x and y value of
group S?
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Question 3, Identify linear equation that best fits data in a scatterplot
A random sample of graduates from a particular college program reported their ages and incomes in
response to a survey. Each point on the scatterplot below represents the age and income of a different
graduate.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
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Question 4, Identify appropriate method for selecting random sample
The principal of a high school would like to determine why there has been a large decline during the year
in the number of students who purchase food in the school’s cafeteria. To do this, 25 students from the
school will be surveyed. Which method would be the most appropriate for selecting the 25 students to
participate in the survey?
a. Randomly select 25 students from the senior class
b. Randomly select 25 students from those taking physics
c. Randomly select 25 students from a list of all students at the school
d. Randomly select 25 students from a list of students who eat in the cafeteria
e. Give the survey to the first 25 students to arrive at school in the morning
Based on the data in the above scatterplot, predictions can be made about the income of a 35-year-old
and the income of a 55-year-old. For which group is the prediction more likely to be accurate?
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Question 6, Calculate probability of independent events
Marissa is going on a trip. She will be taking a taxi, a flight, and then a train. Marissa chose the following
three companies based on their claims.
• Tammy’s Taxi Service claims that it is on time 95% of the time
• Friendly Flyer Airlines claims that it is on time 93% of the time
• Rapid Railways claims that it is on time 98% of the time
Based on the three companies’ claims, what is the approximate probability that all three parts of
Marissa’s trip will be on time, assuming that all three probabilities are independent?
Answer: _______________________
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Question 8, Determine conditional probability from two-way table
The table below shows the gender and color of 7 puppies. If a puppy is selected at random from the
group is brown, what is the probability it is a male?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
On any given day, how many persons who made and kept their advance reservations would not have a
seat in the van on that day? Justify your answer.
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Question 10, Use survey results to make an inference
The pulse rate per minute of a group of 100 adults is displayed in the histogram below. For example, 5
adults have a pulse rate from 40-49 inclusive. Based on these data, how many individuals from a
comparable group of 40 adults would be expected to have a pulse rate of 80 or above?
Answer: __________________
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