Are you Smarter than an 11th Grader?

SECTION 1: READING
(Sentence Completion)

1. Because King Philip’s desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth’s insistence on autonomy for England, ______ was______.

• A. reconciliation . . assured
• B. warfare . . avoidable
• C. ruination . . impossible
• D. conflict . . inevitable
• E. diplomacy . . simple

2. Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that ______ seemed impossible; the project’s inauspicious start made its final success all the more ______ .

• A. concentration . . incidental
• B. disagreement . . incongruous
• C. collaboration . . predictable
• D. hostility . . dazzling
• E. cooperation . . remarkable

SECTION 2: MATH
(multiple choice)

3. A special lottery is to be held to select the student who will live in the only deluxe room in a dormitory. There are 100 seniors, 150 juniors, and 200 sophomores who applied. Each senior’s name is placed in the lottery 3 times; each junior’s name, 2 times; and each sophomore’s name, 1 time. What is the probability that a senior’s name will be chosen?

• A. 1/8
• B. 2/9
• C. 2/7
• D. 3/8
• E. 1/2

4. If k is divisible by 2, 3, and 15, which of the following is also divisible by these numbers?

• A. k + 5
• B. k + 15
• C. k + 20
• D. k + 30
• E. k + 45

5. Let the function f be defined by function f of x = (x^2) minus (7 times x) + 10 and function f of (t + 1) = 0, what is one possible value of t ?

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