ACT II Math I Geometry Practice Test 3 Explanation MR Amr Mustafa
ACT II Math I Geometry Practice Test 3 Explanation MR Amr Mustafa
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 2. Melissa used a compass and a ruler to construct two parallel lines and a transversal. Which of the
following statements is a conjecture that Melissa can make about the angles formed by the parallel lines
and the transversal.
2 2 2 2
a. (x + 3) + (y – 2) = 25 c. (x – 3) + (y + 2) = 18
2 2 2 2
b. (x + 3) + (y – 2) = 18 d. (x – 3) + (y + 2) = 25
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____ 4. The net below represents an icosahedron. How many faces does an icosahedron have?
a. 10
b. 12
c. 15
d. 20
The tourist wants to go to the nearest restroom facility. Which of the following statements is
correct?
a. Restroom facility R is closer.
b. Restroom facility S is closer.
c. Both restroom facilities are the same distance from the tourist.
d. The only distance that can be determined correctly is RS.
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____ 7. When writing a coordinate proof, which of the following would you use to prove that the diagonals of a
quadrilateral are congruent?
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____ 10. Find the area of a regular hexagon with side length 6 m. Round to the nearest tenth.
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a. 46.8 m
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b. 54 m
2
c. 93.5 m
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d. 187.1 m
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____ 12. The dimensions of a rectangle are multiplied by a factor of 2 to form a new rectangle. Which of the
following best describes the relationship between the perimeter of the old rectangle and the perimeter of
the new rectangle?
a. The perimeter of the new rectangle is c. The perimeter of the new rectangle is
half the original rectangle. four times the original rectangle.
b. The perimeter of the new rectangle is d. The perimeter of the new rectangle is
twice the original rectangle. one-fourth the original rectangle.
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____ 13. Nancy is covering a wall in her attic with wallpaper. The wall is trapezoid-shaped with top and bottom
bases of 15 feet and 22 feet. The height of the wall is 8 feet. How much wallpaper will she need to cover
the wall?
d. 78 square feet
____ 14. The picture below represents a 20-foot-tall flagpole that casts a 16-foot-long shadow.
The dashed line in the figure represents the point where the shadow ends to the top of the flag. What is
the approximate angle of elevation formed by the ground and the dashed line?
a. 37°
b. 39°
c. 51°
d. 53°
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____ 16. Adrian constructed 3 parallel lines as part of an art project. He also drew a line passing through each of
the parallel lines. Some of the angles formed by the intersection of line t and lines l, m, and n are
numbered in the diagram below.
Which conjecture can Adrian make about the angles formed by line t and lines l, m, and n?
____ 17. Suppose you want to build a mirror with the frame shown. The outer edges of the frame form a regular
polygon. What is the measure of ∠y ?
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a. Show that the diagonals are c. Show that both pairs of opposite angles
perpendicular. are congruent.
b. Show that the diagonals are congruent. d. Show that two pairs of opposite sides
are congruent.
____ 19. Stephanie collects snow globes. The snow globes come in cube-shaped boxes as shown below.
How does the change in the length of the sides from the smaller cube to the larger cube affect the surface
area?
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____ 20. In the figure below, NP is the altitude drawn to the hypotenuse of MNO.
a. 6
b. 8
c. 9
d. 12
____ 21. Four shaded circles, each of radius 8 centimeters, are packed in a square as shown. Which expression, in
square centimeters, represents the area that is NOT shaded inside the square?
2 2
a. 32(32) − π(8) c. 16(16) − 4 π(8)
2 2
b. 4 π(8) − 32(32) d. 32(32) − 4 π(8)
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____ 22. Given: BD and AE intersect at point C, point C is the midpoint of BD, point C is the midpoint of AE.
a. ASA c. SAS
b. SSS d. AAA
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a. x= c. x=9
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b. x=8 d. x = 10
____ 24. The coordinates of endpoint D in CD are at D(5, 5). If the midpoint of the segment is at M(1, –1), what
are the coordinates of point C?
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____ 25. The junior league baseball diamond at a playground is a square with sides that measure 65 feet.
About how long would a straight line be from home plate to second base? Round your answer to the
nearest tenth.
a. 91.9 feet
b. 130 feet
c. 65 feet
d. 8,450 feet
____ 26. What is the measure of arc AB?
a. 40° c. 110°
b. 100° d. 140°
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a. It has 6 vertices.
b. It has 8 edges.
c. It has 5 faces.
d. It is a triangular prism.
____ 28. Three angles of quadrilateral ABCD have measures 68°, 97°, and 112°. What is the value of x?
____ 29. A square-based prism has a cylindrical hole bored through the middle as shown in the diagram below.
What is the approximate remaining volume of the prism? Use 3.14 for π.
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____ 30. Which equation defines the circle with center (5, −4) and radius 3?
2 2
a. ( x − 5 ) + ÁÊË y + 4 ˜ˆ¯ = 9 c. ( x + 4 ) + ÁÊË y − 5 ˜ˆ¯ = 3
2 2
2 2
b. ( x + 5 ) + ÊÁË y − 4 ˆ˜¯ = 9 d. ( x + 5 ) + ÊÁË y − 4 ˆ˜¯ = 3
2 2
____ 31. Quadrilateral CDEF has vertices C(8, 2), D(7, –4), and E(1, –5). What are the coordinates of vertex F if
CDEF is a parallelogram?
a. (2, 2) c. (2, 1)
b. (1, 1) d. (3, 3)
____ 32. In the diagram below, m∠M = 44º and MN = 12 yards. What is the length of MP to the nearest tenth?
____ 33. What is sin D in the right triangle shown below? Express your answer as a fraction in lowest terms.
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a.
15
8
b.
17
15
c.
17
17
d.
8
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Which of the following transformations will produce an image with a vertex at (1, 1)?
a. Translate figure ABCD 2 units to the c. Reflect figure ABCD across the y-axis.
right and 2 units down.
b. Reflect figure ABCD across the x-axis. d. Translate figure ABCD 4 units to the
right and 2 units up.
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a. 17 c. 33
b. 21 d. 51
____ 37. The figure shown is a kite. What is the y-coordinate of point D?
s+9
a. c. 2s + 5
2
b. –2 d. s+4
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____ 38. The base of a 12-foot ladder is 5 feet from a building. To the nearest degree, what angle does the ladder
make with the ground?
a. 23°
b. 25°
c. 65°
d. 82°
____ 39. A landowner wants to find the distance d across a pond. The two overlapping right triangles shown
are similar. Using the measurements shown, what is d?
a. 36 meters c. 96 meters
____ 40. Corey is 66 inches tall. At noon, Corey casts a shadow 108 inches long. At the same time, a tree casts a
shadow 216 inches long. The right triangle formed by Corey and his shadow is similar to the right
triangle formed by the tree and its shadow. How tall is the tree?
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____ 41. What is the correct order of the sides of the triangle from longest to shortest?
____ 42. What is a rule that describes the translation QRST → Q ʹ′R ʹ′S ʹ′T ʹ′?
a. (x, y) → (x − 6, y + 2) c. (x, y) → (x − 2, y + 6)
b. (x, y) → (x + 6, y − 2) d. (x, y) → (x + 2, y − 6)
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____ 43. If parallelogram WXYZ shown below is rotated 180° about the origin to create image W'X'Y'Z', which of
the following is NOT true?
____ 44. How do you write the contrapositive of the conditional statement below?
____ 45. How many two inch cubes will fit inside the four inch cubic box?
a. 4 b. 6 c. 8 d. 16
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____ 46. Francesco built a box to store his baseball cards. The box is shown below.
Francesco needed more storage and built a similar box that was one-half of each the length, the width,
and the height of the first box. By what factor does the change in dimension between the two boxes
affect the volume?
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a. The volume of the smaller box is of the volume of the larger box.
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b. The volume of the smaller box is of the volume of the larger box.
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c. The volume of the smaller box is of the volume of the larger box.
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d. The volume of the smaller box is of the volume of the larger box.
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____ 47. If ΔMNO ≅ ΔPQR, which of the following can you NOT conclude as being true?
a. MN ≅ PR c. NO ≅ QR
b. ∠M ≅ ∠P d. ∠N ≅ ∠Q
____ 48. The sum of the measures of the interior angles of a convex polygon is 1260°. Classify the polygon
by its number of sides.
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____ 50. In this drawing, line p is parallel to line j and line t is perpendicular to AB .
a. hypothesis c. counterexample
____ 52. Each unit on the map represents 5 miles. What is the best estimate of the distance from Oceanfront to
Seaside?
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____ 54. Which coordinates are the vertices of a figure that is similar to the figure pictured below?
a. (–2a, 0), (0, 2c), (2b, 0), (0, –2c) c. (–a + 1, 0), (1, c), (b, 1), (0, –c + 1)
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b. ( a, 0), (0, c), (2b, 0), (0, 2c) d. (2a, 0), (0, 4c), (–2b, 0), (0, 2c)
2 2
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____ 55. The net below represents a regular polyhedron. How many vertices does the figure have?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9
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ID: A
MULTIPLE CHOICE
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ID: A